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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)

Using message boxes and prompts

Our bot so far has dealt with four types of variables – String, Datetime, Boolean, and Number. They have values assigned to them using the assign action or are set as default values. We will now go through and modify our bot. Instead of assigning values using actions, we will replace this with actions from the Prompt package. As well as using the Prompt package, you will learn how to disable and enable actions for your bot.

In this walk-through, we will be performing the following tasks:

  1. Disabling Assign actions from the bot
  2. Adding Prompt actions for capturing strFirstName and strSurname
  3. Outputting results as Message box

Let's start this walk-through by performing the following steps:

  1. Continuing with the same bot as before, to disable an action, you will notice the three vertical dots at the end of every action line in the development interface. Clicking on this will show the options menus. This gives you...