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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)

Automating web applications

During a normal working day, we will use web applications to carry out our daily tasks. These applications may be in the public domain, such as search engines, or intranet-based applications specific to your organization. There is a shift of desktop applications moving to cloud-based web applications. The use of web applications is increasing in business circles.

In the following walk-through, we will be working with a web application. It's a very simple website. We will be navigating to a specific page by looking for a particular tab. The walk-through will then fill a simple online form and conclude by clicking the Send button on the form.

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

  1. Launching the http://skysoftuk.net website
  2. Clicking on the CONTACT tab to navigate to the contact page
  3. Completing the Name, Email, and Message fields on the form
  4. Clicking the Send button

Let's start this walk-through...