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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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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

Applying a simple logical condition

A condition needs to be added to check that the strMiddleNames variable is not empty. There is no point in trying to get the middle name initials if there are no middle names. The following instructions will take you through the steps to achieve this:

  1. To assign a simple logical condition, drag the If action just below line 24.
  2. Set the following properties for the If action on line 25:

    Condition: String condition

    Source value: $strMiddleNames$

    Operator: Not equal to

    Target value: (leave blank)

    The properties should look like this:

    Figure 8.33 – If statement properties

    Figure 8.33 – If statement properties

  3. Click on Save.

All the actions that we want the bot to perform need to be placed indented within the If condition statement, similar to placing actions for loops. It gets more interesting now: within our middle names' variable, there may be one or more middle names. We just don't know this. Since we need to get the initial of each middle name, the best...

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