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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Mahey
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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

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By: Mahey
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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)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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To get the most out of this book
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Download the example code files
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Conventions used
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Get in touch
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Chapter 1: About Automation Anywhere
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Chapter 1: About Automation Anywhere
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Technical requirements
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What is robotic process automation?
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Overview of Automation Anywhere
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Automation Anywhere versions
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Summary
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Chapter 2: Installing Automation Anywhere
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Chapter 2: Installing Automation Anywhere
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Technical requirements
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Connecting to Control Room
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Preparing your device
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Configuring profile and device credentials
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Chapter 3: Overview of Automation Anywhere Control Room
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Chapter 3: Overview of Automation Anywhere Control Room
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Technical requirements
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Exploring the home screen
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Understanding the dashboard
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Viewing RPA activity
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Managing bots
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Managing your devices
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Managing user administration
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Chapter 4: Overview of the Automation Anywhere Development Interface
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Chapter 4: Overview of the Automation Anywhere Development Interface
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Technical requirements
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Bot development interface
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What can a bot do?
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Programming techniques using Automation Anywhere
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Variables and triggers
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Debugging and dependencies
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Chapter 5: Building Your First Bot
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Chapter 5: Building Your First Bot
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Technical requirements
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Downloading sample data from GitHub
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Understanding your automation task
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Creating your first bot
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Performing basic arithmetic calculations
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Appending records to a CSV file
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Chapter 6: Introducing Variables in A2019
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Chapter 6: Introducing Variables in A2019
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Technical requirements
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Working with different variable types
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Using message boxes and prompts
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Converting data types
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Chapter 7: Interacting with Applications
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Chapter 7: Interacting with Applications
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Technical requirements
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Automating web applications
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Automating desktop applications
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Simulating keystrokes
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Chapter 8: String Manipulation and List Variables
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Chapter 8: String Manipulation and List Variables
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Manipulating strings
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Looping through lists
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Applying a simple logical condition
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Chapter 9: Working with Conditional Logic, Loops, and the Filesystem
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Chapter 9: Working with Conditional Logic, Loops, and the Filesystem
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Applying different types of loops
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Applying logical conditions
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Working with the filesystem
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Chapter 10: Working with XML Files
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Chapter 10: Working with XML Files
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Starting, validating, and ending XML sessions
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Reading XML nodes
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Updating XML nodes
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Inserting XML nodes
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Deleting XML nodes
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Executing XPath functions
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Chapter 11: Automating Excel
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Chapter 11: Automating Excel
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Technical requirements
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Opening, closing, and saving Excel workbooks
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Reading and writing data within Excel worksheets
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Working with data in Excel
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Running macros
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Chapter 12: Automation Using Word
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Chapter 12: Automation Using Word
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Understanding the manual process
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Chapter 13: Working with Emails
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Chapter 13: Working with Emails
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Technical requirements
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Connecting to mailboxes
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Reading emails and attachments
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Sending emails and attachments
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Chapter 14: Working with PDF Files
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Chapter 14: Working with PDF Files
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Extracting text and images
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Splitting and merging documents
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Encrypting and decrypting documents
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Using the PDF dictionary
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Chapter 15: Working with Databases
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Chapter 15: Working with Databases
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Connecting to, and disconnecting from, databases
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Reading data from databases
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Updating databases
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Chapter 16: Building Modular Bots and Sub-Tasks
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Chapter 16: Building Modular Bots and Sub-Tasks
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Technical requirements
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Designing modular task bots
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Running sub-task bots
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Passing variables between main and sub-task-bots
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Working example walk-through
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Chapter 17: Running External Scripts
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Chapter 17: Running External Scripts
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Running VBScripts
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Running Python scripts
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Chapter 18: Managing Errors
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Chapter 18: Managing Errors
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Technical requirements
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Error handling with A2019
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Understanding Try, Catch, Finally, and Throw actions
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Building an error-handling routine
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Chapter 2: Installing Automation Anywhere

The latest Community Edition of Automation Anywhere is a fully cloud-based platform. It is also available to students and small businesses for free. There is no limit on the number of bots you can build; the only limitation is that they can only be deployed to one device. This makes it ideal to learn how to start building RPA bots.

The basic components needed for any version of Automation Anywhere to run are Control Room and the Client. Control Room functions as a management tool. It is used to manage your user accounts, devices, bots, and schedules, as well as giving bot insights. In previous versions, the Client was the bot development interface, but this has been superseded in the latest Community Edition A2019 and all the development is now done from within Control Room. So, there is no need to install any client application.

The previous chapter showed how to register with Automation Anywhere. This registration process will create a user account for you and allocate your account to a control room. You will receive an email with the Control Room URL details as well as your login credentials.

In this chapter, we will get Automation Anywhere up and running, ready to start building bots. You will learn how to connect to the control room and update your profile, and we will move forward to setting up the machine you would run your bot on, known as a device. After creating the device, you will learn how to configure and set up any credentials needed to log in to the device. By the end of this chapter, you will have completed learning how to set up the environment and get ready for your RPA bot development journey using Automation Anywhere.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Connecting to Control Room
  • Preparing your device
  • Configuring profile and device credentials
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