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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 have built your first bot using Automation Anywhere. You are now a lot closer to becoming an RPA developer, having gained some valuable knowledge with the help of a real-life business process. You should be very comfortable with using actions to make your bot perform tasks. We have already looked at comma-separated files, in other words, reading, creating, and appending. You will have also increased your knowledge in terms of the use of variables, including strings, numbers, and even records.

You should now be comfortable with building and running bots. We just need to explore more actions that can be automated. In the next chapter, we will expand further on the Automation Anywhere actions. We will take a closer look at variables. You will be building a bot that uses different types of variables, from Boolean to dates. As well as creating variables, you will also gain some insight into performing calculations with dates and numbers. We will also look at prompts, message...