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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Husan Mahey
Book Image

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)

Exploring the home screen

The home screen is the first interface presented to you when you initially log on to Control Room. You will notice shortcuts to some of the exciting features available for you to explore:

Figure 3.1 – Home screen

There are a number of options and information available in the top-right panel. These are as follows:

Figure 3.2 – Screen icons

The main navigation menu is on the left-hand side of the home screen. This will take you into the different sections of Control Room. We will explore each section further in this chapter.

On the main window of the home screen, there are four shortcuts available. These are for the following:

  • Create a Bot: Launches the interface to quickly get you started in building your bots
  • Launch IQ Bot: Launches the artificial intelligence and machine learning tool
  • Open Bot Insight: Launches the data collection and analysis tool
  • BotStore: When available...