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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere
Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere: Techniques to fuel business productivity and intelligent automation using RPA

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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

Chapter 2: Installing Automation Anywhere

The latest Community Edition of Automation Anywhere is a fully cloud-based platform. It is also available to students and small businesses for free. There is no limit on the number of bots you can build; the only limitation is that they can only be deployed to one device. This makes it ideal to learn how to start building RPA bots.

The basic components needed for any version of Automation Anywhere to run are Control Room and the Client. Control Room functions as a management tool. It is used to manage your user accounts, devices, bots, and schedules, as well as giving bot insights. In previous versions, the Client was the bot development interface, but this has been superseded in the latest Community Edition A2019 and all the development is now done from within Control Room. So, there is no need to install any client application.

The previous chapter showed how to register with Automation Anywhere. This registration process will create a user account for you and allocate your account to a control room. You will receive an email with the Control Room URL details as well as your login credentials.

In this chapter, we will get Automation Anywhere up and running, ready to start building bots. You will learn how to connect to the control room and update your profile, and we will move forward to setting up the machine you would run your bot on, known as a device. After creating the device, you will learn how to configure and set up any credentials needed to log in to the device. By the end of this chapter, you will have completed learning how to set up the environment and get ready for your RPA bot development journey using Automation Anywhere.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Connecting to Control Room
  • Preparing your device
  • Configuring profile and device credentials
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  • Build RPA robots using the latest features of cloud-based Automation Anywhere A2019
  • Explore real-world scenarios with AA A2019 to understand the wide range of capabilities available for your RPA projects
  • Build complete software robots to automate business processes with the help of step-by-step walkthroughs

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With an increase in the number of organizations deploying RPA solutions, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is quickly becoming the most desired skill set for both developers starting their career and seasoned professionals. This book will show you how to use Automation Anywhere A2019, one of the leading platforms used widely for RPA. Starting with an introduction to RPA and Automation Anywhere, the book will guide you through the registration, installation, and configuration of the Bot agent and Control Room. With the help of easy-to-follow instructions, you’ll build your first bot and discover how you can automate tasks with Excel, Word, emails, XML, and PDF files. You’ll learn from practical examples based on real-world business scenarios, and gain insights into building more robust and resilient bots, executing external scripts such as VBScripts and Python, and adding error handling routines. By the end of this RPA book, you’ll have developed the skills required to install and configure an RPA platform confidently and have a solid understanding of how to build complex and robust, yet performant, bots.

Who is this book for?

This Automation Anywhere RPA book is for automation engineers, RPA professionals, and automation consultants who are looking to explore the capabilities of Automation Anywhere for building intelligent automation strategy for enterprises. A solid understanding of programming concepts and exposure to the Automation Anywhere platform is necessary to get started with this book.

What you will learn

  • Explore effective techniques for installing and configuring an Automation Anywhere A2019 platform
  • Build software robots to automate tasks and simplify complex business processes
  • Design resilient bots that are modular and reusable
  • Understand how to add error handling functionality and discover troubleshooting techniques
  • Design bots to automate tasks in Excel, Word, emails, XML, and PDF files
  • Implement effective automation strategies using RPA best practices

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Table of Contents

19 Chapters
Chapter 1: About Automation Anywhere Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Installing Automation Anywhere Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Overview of Automation Anywhere Control Room Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Overview of the Automation Anywhere Development Interface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Building Your First Bot Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Introducing Variables in A2019 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Interacting with Applications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: String Manipulation and List Variables Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Working with Conditional Logic, Loops, and the Filesystem Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Working with XML Files Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Automating Excel Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: Automation Using Word Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 13: Working with Emails Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 14: Working with PDF Files Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 15: Working with Databases Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 16: Building Modular Bots and Sub-Tasks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 17: Running External Scripts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 18: Managing Errors Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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This is a great book if you are getting started with Automation Anywhere.It provides a step by step instructions to create your initial RPA automation with Pdfs, emails, word documents etc. It is a manual Automation Anywhere should have come with.
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C. Staples Dec 23, 2020
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Review of book "Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere", published by Packt Publishing in 2020.In general, the "Automation Anywhere" framework uses what are essentially pre-packaged code widgets which are grouped in assemblages called "bots". An author selects and positions desired widgets in a sequence, modifying portions of them as necessary, and saves them. Once saved, these bots can be rerun or modified as necessary to tweak their behavior. This book serves as an introduction to the framework and its capabilities.Chapters 1-4 deal with general background, overview, and installation.Fairly quick read, but important especially if you have no familiarity with the material. An important note: Creating these bots starts with the design process. In this tool, that translates to entering comments (defining tasks) into the bot code FIRST and then creating code to accomplish the task.In Chapter 5, the "First Bot" is built. Technically it's the second bot - the first being a Hello World type bot in Chapter 4 - but let's not quibble. Building this bot exercises some foundational functionality like file input / output, calculations, and looping. The steps provided are very exact and work perfectly, though it's important to keep an eye on details. (On at least one occasion, an edit appeared to have an unexpected side effect. This also could have been a miss on my part.)The previous bot creation process is expanded in Chapter 6, which walks the user through exercises designed to use variables in the available data types: String, Number, Boolean etc. Some of these types are roughly analogous to those in various programming languages and some are essentially specific to this framework.Chapter 7 provides a first look at interacting with a "live" application, capturing web output and simulating keystroke input. Chapters 8 and 9 introduce string manipulation, lists and more advanced program flow, while Chapter 10 returns to file processing in a more intriguing topic - XML parsing and updating.At this point, we are firmly into more advanced areas, and the subsequent chapters 11-15 deal with use cases similar to "real world" app usage and interaction: working with artifacts from Microsoft applications Word and Excel, email handling, PDF format, and rudimentary database access.The balance of the book deals with debugging and features for more complicated program flow, such as sub-tasks, usage of additional bots within a single project design, and leveraging scripts from external tools such as Python or Visual Basic.Overall, the book style is sufficient though a bit plain and formulaic - the various exercises read much like tech support work flow documentation. That makes them specific and clear, but repetitive. A good selection of the various code widgets are exercised but the reader will note that MANY more are not - there simply are too many to explore in any detail (dozens of basic types each with multiple options). Also, there is no discussion about using outputs from these bots in concert with other test or reporting frameworks, which some organizations might require.However, insofar as granting users some initial exposure and familiarity, this book accomplishes that goal successfully.*Disclaimer: Review of a complimentary copy of the book
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