Creating your first bot

You will now start to build your first bot. Just follow the step-by-step instructions to guide you through the process. We know the tasks that the bot needs to perform. Before we apply this, it's always good practice to build a skeleton of the whole task using comments. This ensures that we won't miss any crucial functionality out and also acts as a template for all the actions.

Let's start by creating a new bot in List view:

1. Log in to Control Room.
2. Create a new bot and call it Chapter 5 - FirstBot in the \Bot\ folder.
3. Add a Comment action as line 1; we will use this as our bot description comment.
4. Set the Comment property's text as "Task: Calculate Monthly Loan Payment to new CSV File".
5. Click on Save. The development interface should look like this:
   

   Figure 5.3 – FirstBot initial comment action

6. Add a new Comment action as "Create output csv file" on line 2 and click on Save.
7. Add...