Chapter 6: Introducing Variables in A2019

Having already built your first bot, you should now be very comfortable with navigating through the Automaton Anywhere interface. You should have no issues with logging on to the Control Room and creating a new bot. We have also looked at some of the actions the bots can perform, but there are many more actions available. The tasks a bot can perform are pretty much limited to your imagination. There really isn't much that a bot cannot be instructed to perform. A lot of this functionality is already available and grouped within packages using Automation Anywhere. In the next five chapters, we will be taking a closer look at the different packages and actions Automation Anywhere offers.

In this chapter, you will get hands-on experience with the basic essentials for developing with Automation Anywhere. You will be creating, assigning, and editing values stored in variables, and these variables will include Booleans, strings, numbers, and...