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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Husan Mahey
Book Image

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)

Appending records to a CSV file

We often need to add records or even logs to a CSV file. In this scenario, we will be writing the calculated results to a CSV file. Each row that we calculated will be a separate row in the output CSV file.

Your first bot has already been able to perform the following tasks:

  1. Create a CSV file.
  2. Read records from a CSV file.
  3. Perform calculations for each row in the CSV file.

We have all the information that needs to be added to the output file. Before we actually add this, we will need to convert the numMonthly variable to a string. This is because we cannot output a numeric value as a string to the output CSV file.

To convert this variable and add the record to our output CSV file, perform the following steps:

  1. Drag the Number: To string action just below line 15, ensuring it is within the Loop action on line 7.
  2. Set the following properties for the String: Assign action on line 16:

    Enter a number: $numMonthly$

    Enter...