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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)

Understanding the dashboard

The dashboard acts as the information and metrics section. It is split into two main sections: the top section contains a few shortcuts, while the bottom section shows bot metric data, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.3 – Dashboard interface

The available shortcuts on the dashboard are as follows:

  • Creating a new bot
  • Launching bot insights
  • Your recently visited pages

The metrics will display the number of bots you have created, data on the success and failures of these bots, as well as performance-related data. Other metric data is also available through bot insights, including return on investment analysis, transactions processed in terms of volumes and speed, and the efficiency of bots, to name a few. As we have not built any bots yet, the metrics data will be sparse.

The dashboard displays aggregated data for a period of time. We can view the activity of individual bots in the next...