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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

Running sub-task bots

For our given scenario, the main task bot runs three sub-task bots. To run a sub-task bot from within your main task bot, you need to use the Task Bot package. This package contains actions such as Pause, Run, and Stop. The Run action will run another task. The configuration of this action includes the following:

  • Specifying the location of the task bot
  • Specifying any input variables
  • Specifying the repeatable status of the task

When a sub-task is actioned, Automation Anywhere will run that task, and once it's completed, it returns back to the main task and continues from the next line. Later on in this chapter, there is a walk-through that will take you through building our bot for this scenario. You will build your sub-tasks and the main task. This will give you the practical knowledge of applying the Task bot: Run action. Often you will need to pass parameters to sub-tasks. In the next section, we will have a look at passing variables...

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