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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

This chapter has covered some key elements of implementing RPA in relation to your daily tasks. Understanding how to interact with web and desktop applications is what we humans do. All the tasks that we perform while sitting in front of a computer involve interacting with an application of some sort. This interaction may involve selecting or clicking on objects as well as entering inputs using the keyboard.

The walk-throughs in this chapter have given you the practical knowledge to enable you to create bots that navigate through applications, as well as read and enter text. You will be confident with capturing objects such as textboxes and drop-down lists, as well as tabs and buttons. Your journey to becoming an RPA developer is truly underway.

You are doing great work and will continue building on this in the next chapter, where we will explore how to perform string manipulation. This includes creating and looping through List type variables when working with strings...