You're reading from Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere Techniques to fuel business productivity and intelligent automation using RPA

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839215650

Length 554 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

XML

Tools

Automation Anywhere

Concepts

Robotic Process Automation

Author (1):

Husan Mahey

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: About Automation Anywhere

2. Chapter 2: Installing Automation Anywhere FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Overview of Automation Anywhere Control Room

4. Chapter 4: Overview of the Automation Anywhere Development Interface

5. Chapter 5: Building Your First Bot

6. Chapter 6: Introducing Variables in A2019

7. Chapter 7: Interacting with Applications

8. Chapter 8: String Manipulation and List Variables

9. Chapter 9: Working with Conditional Logic, Loops, and the Filesystem

10. Chapter 10: Working with XML Files

11. Chapter 11: Automating Excel

12. Chapter 12: Automation Using Word

13. Chapter 13: Working with Emails

14. Chapter 14: Working with PDF Files

15. Chapter 15: Working with Databases

16. Chapter 16: Building Modular Bots and Sub-Tasks

17. Chapter 17: Running External Scripts

18. Chapter 18: Managing Errors

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What can a bot do?

We are now ready to start looking at what functionality Automation Anywhere offers as regards bot development. There are hundreds of actions available to help automate your tasks. All the options are listed on the left pane. These actions are grouped into categories known as packages. Each package is a collection of individual actions. Here you can see the list pane showing all the available packages:

Figure 4.6 – The packages list pane

You can see all the packages and actions available in this list. This list is in alphabetical order and is searchable, allowing quick access to your actions. Each package can be expanded or collapsed to view or hide the actions available. As you can see, the usual functionality available in most programming languages is available, including the following: