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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)

Applying logical conditions

Using logical conditions is a way to apply decision-making for your bots. Bots can make rule-based decisions, and these rules can be based on a number of scenarios. Automation Anywhere offers a plethora of options to base decisions on. The following is a breakdown of all the scenarios that conditions can be based on:

Figure 9.9 – If statement scenarios

Figure 9.9 – If statement scenarios

As you can see, the opportunities for applying automation decisions are wide and varied. Getting back to our walk-through, we need to identify the subfolder for our surname initial. Our approach will be to create a list of all the subfolders and to loop through this list while checking if it's the correct folder. We will need a few variables for this process: an initial String variable for storing the list of subfolders, a List variable for assigning the folders to a list, and a String variable for storing the allocated folder for our surname initial.

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