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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Husan Mahey
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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By: Husan Mahey

Overview of this book

With an increase in the number of organizations deploying RPA solutions, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is quickly becoming the most desired skill set for both developers starting their career and seasoned professionals. This book will show you how to use Automation Anywhere A2019, one of the leading platforms used widely for RPA. Starting with an introduction to RPA and Automation Anywhere, the book will guide you through the registration, installation, and configuration of the Bot agent and Control Room. With the help of easy-to-follow instructions, you’ll build your first bot and discover how you can automate tasks with Excel, Word, emails, XML, and PDF files. You’ll learn from practical examples based on real-world business scenarios, and gain insights into building more robust and resilient bots, executing external scripts such as VBScripts and Python, and adding error handling routines. By the end of this RPA book, you’ll have developed the skills required to install and configure an RPA platform confidently and have a solid understanding of how to build complex and robust, yet performant, bots.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Chapter 3: Overview of Automation Anywhere Control Room

Understanding the Control Room interface is key when building, deploying, and managing bots. Control Room is used to perform all these tasks. It has a very easy-to-use intuitive interface. The interface is designed with a pane on the left-hand side used as a navigation bar, which lists the main sections and sub-sections of the control room. The main desktop area has all the functionality and features for each section.

In the previous chapter, you learned how to connect your device to the control room and get ready to start building bots. Before we actually build a bot, it is important that you have a clear understanding of the user interface.

In this chapter, we go greater into detail about the Control Room interface. Each section is explored, giving you hands-on experience with the interface. You will learn about the dashboard, monitoring bot activity, setting application credentials, device management, and user management...