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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)

Summary

You should now be comfortable with the Automation Anywhere development interface. We have gone through creating a simple bot. You have created variables and triggers for your bot. In addition, you have also acquired some hands-on experience of using the debugging tool for Automation Anywhere. Having created your initial bot and gotten an overview of all the other actions available, you must be keen to start implementing more complex actions in your bot. You have also gained knowledge of how to use the different views while building a bot. Apply the view that works best for you.

In the next chapter, we will build a bot using a number of more complex actions. You will learn about working with data and files. This is just the start of your RPA development experience. It will use a practical step-by-step process to guide you. By the end, you will be confident in using Automation Anywhere to start building your bots.