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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)

Viewing RPA activity

The Activity section shows the current and historic status of your bots and devices. This is in the form of a list. By clicking on the ACTIVITY option from the menu pane, you will see the following interface:

Figure 3.4 – Activity: In progress interface

You can quickly identify which bot is running on which device. A device is the desktop that bots are deployed to. In Chapter 2, Installing Automation Anywhere, we went through how to add, register, and connect your local device.

There are two sub-sections to the Activity page, showing In progress and Historical:

Figure 3.5 – Activity options

Both of these sub-sections display a list of your bots or devices. The In progress list shows the bots that are currently active, and the Historical screen lists bots with a completed status. It displays all bots and all devices that are managed within Control Room.

A number of options are available through...