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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)

Debugging and dependencies

Once we have built a bot, it needs to be tested. Being able to identify the root cause of any issue requires good troubleshooting skills. In order to help us troubleshoot, Automation Anywhere has a debugging tool. It allows you to go through each line one by one, so you can examine the taskbot status in more detail before moving on to the next line.

We will need to edit our current bot so that it flows end to end with no user interactions. Also, we need to add a few more actions as it only has one action at the moment. To make the message box automatically close without waiting for a user response, we can set a duration that we would like the message to be displayed for before it closes. To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the properties of our Message box action on line 1 and update the following properties:
    Figure 4.35 – Updated Message box properties

    Figure 4.35 – Updated Message box properties

  2. Click on Save.
  3. We need to add more actions, so we will copy and...