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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839215650
Length 554 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Husan Mahey Husan Mahey
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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