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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)

Managing bots

Bot management and deployment are performed in this section. This is broken down into four sub-sections, which are accessible from the main menu pane on the left:

Figure 3.9 – Bot management options

Figure 3.9 – Bot management options

The BOTS section is one of the key sections when it comes to building and managing bots. We will look further into each sub-section in greater detail.

My bots

All your bots are visible here. They are presented via folders and files related to your bots. Automation Anywhere A2019 uses a pre-defined file structure, the root folder being Bots. This folder structure is an exclusive storage area for your account. Within the root folder, you can create new folders, the standard practice being to create a folder for each individual bot or a bot category.

As you can see, the folder structure is displayed on the left pane and the contents on the right:

Figure 3.10 – The My bots interface

There are a few options...