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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)

Creating your first bot

You will now start to build your first bot. Just follow the step-by-step instructions to guide you through the process. We know the tasks that the bot needs to perform. Before we apply this, it's always good practice to build a skeleton of the whole task using comments. This ensures that we won't miss any crucial functionality out and also acts as a template for all the actions.

Let's start by creating a new bot in List view:

  1. Log in to Control Room.
  2. Create a new bot and call it Chapter 5 - FirstBot in the \Bot\ folder.
  3. Add a Comment action as line 1; we will use this as our bot description comment.
  4. Set the Comment property's text as "Task: Calculate Monthly Loan Payment to new CSV File".
  5. Click on Save. The development interface should look like this:
    Figure 5.3 – FirstBot initial comment action

    Figure 5.3 – FirstBot initial comment action

  6. Add a new Comment action as "Create output csv file" on line 2 and click on Save.
  7. Add...