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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)

Understanding your automation task

The purpose of using software robots is to make our life easier by freeing up valuable time. In this section, we will outline the manual process that will be used for our first bot. Mapping a step-by-step process of the manual task is known as a user story. This bot will execute the process end to end automatically. We will start by drafting a quick user story of this task.

This bot is based on a manual task performed by John, who works within a loans department of a finance company. The process executes as follows:

  1. John creates a new empty CSV file called Chapter05_Output.csv.
  2. A daily CSV file is available on a shared drive, Chapter05_Input.csv.
  3. John will open this file and read each record. This record has the following fields: Reference, Amount, Years, and Interest.
  4. John calculates the monthly payment by using the following formula: (Amount + Interest)/ (Years x 12).
  5. John adds a record for each calculation in the new...