Automation Anywhere commands

16 Pages·2017·0.79 MB·English

by  Dabbugudi, Muralikrishna

Automation Anywhere (RPA) – AA commands September 2017

Automation Anywhere commands and how
we can use those commands
By
Muralikrishna Dabbugudi
September 2017

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Contents:
Contents………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….2
About Automation Anywhere.………………..……………………………………………………………………………………………….3
Web Recorder………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4
Send Email……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….9
Image Recognition…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………12
Launch Website……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..14
Insert Keystroke…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….15

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Automation Anywhere:
Automation Anywhere is a Robotic process Automation tool that will automate
backend office repetitive work in every day without changing existing process,
business rules that human does today. AA is easy to learn, easy to use, drag and
drop interface, rapid results with minimal programming required. AA has ability to
work across different environments, applications, outstanding tool for working
with Excel and databases and it has security provisions.

What can be automated?
AA will capture and interpreted the existing applications, processing a transaction
in any technology after integrated, manipulating data, triggering responses and
communicating with other systems and humans.

Below are the functions where we can automate:
Financial Accounting: We can automate Account Receivables, Account Payables
action items, invoice processing, collections, reporting and auditing.
Operations/Information Technology: With Automation anywhere can automate
software installations, create, and delete user accounts, printer setups, batch
processing and systems integration (like SAP, PDF etc.).
Sales: AA can use to Order processing errors, logistics management, returns
processing, commission processing, populating customer information into CRMs,
interface with third party systems.
Marketing: AA can use to generate lead reports, interfaces between applications.
Human Resource: Automating tasks in hire to retire cycle, email notifications,
populating/aggregating employee information, and interfaces with third party
systems.
Manufacturing: Inventory position/management, process reporting, Excel
automation, ERP integration.
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Web Recorder:
Web recorder is a beautiful command from Automation Anywhere, using this
command we can record web operations without programming logic. This will
generate code automatically in background. Record is the easiest way to build a
Robot, no need to write coding, this option will very useful for simple tasks
involving mouse click, keyboard operations. This option is very faster than creating
a new task manually.

Pre-requisite for Recording:
It requires windows to be in exact locations, this option is limited to static screens
and web applications.
In Automation Anywhere, there is a three ways to select Web recorder:
1. Click the Record button, Select Web Recorder from the dropdown

2. Click on the New Task button and choose the Web Record option

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3. Set Web Recorder on Record button dropdown, Select Record from the File
menu

Here I’m taking an example of www.amazon.com to retrieve some information
shown below using web recorder command from Automation Anywhere.

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Here it starts Automation Anywhere task with using Web recorder command.

You will re-directed to below option then, click extract data option like below.

Then select extract option you want:

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Then click on Next button and you need to move selected data from Amazon
website to variable.

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Then if you want to see the outcome from the web recorder then you need to add
Message option in task editor.

Finally, you will be getting output like this:

Below is the task editor how AA will generate the backend code for web recording
option:

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Email sending via AA:

In general, every business having process where team is going to send an email to
vendors or customers requesting some information regarding their business, in
that case backend team would use Outlook exchange to send an email to particular
customers or vendors before getting into Robotic Process Automation. However,
via Automation Anywhere, we have a wonderful command sending an email
without using Outlook but we have to use Domain, host name details setup.

Pre-requisite: Before using AA email option we need to update the Outgoing mail
server details like Host and Port details.

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Then update the Host and port details.

Then create task under task editor then drag and drop the Send email command
from left side of the command options to utilize email-sending command.

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