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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)

What can a bot do?

We are now ready to start looking at what functionality Automation Anywhere offers as regards bot development. There are hundreds of actions available to help automate your tasks. All the options are listed on the left pane. These actions are grouped into categories known as packages. Each package is a collection of individual actions. Here you can see the list pane showing all the available packages:

Figure 4.6 – The packages list pane

Figure 4.6 – The packages list pane

You can see all the packages and actions available in this list. This list is in alphabetical order and is searchable, allowing quick access to your actions. Each package can be expanded or collapsed to view or hide the actions available. As you can see, the usual functionality available in most programming languages is available, including the following:

  • Working with files and folders
  • Conditional logic operands, that is, if/else
  • Iterations
  • Text manipulation

In addition...