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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)

Programming techniques using Automation Anywhere

Building tasks for your bot using Automation Anywhere is comparatively easier than other scripting languages, such as VBScript, JavaScript, or Python. To make a bot perform a task, you give it a list of actions. These actions are executed in a sequential manner. To put it simply, the bot will run through a list of actions. These actions, put together, become a task. The complete list is what makes a taskbot.

There are three different ways to visualize your bot actions. These are Flow, List, and Dual. The default view is Flow when you initially create a bot. You can switch between the three ways by selecting the desired tab located on the top pane of the interface, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.7 – Bot development visual aids

Figure 4.7 – Bot development visual aids

Let's explore the three views in more detail. Before we do this, we will add a simple action for the bot to perform. We will add a message box; the following...