Automation Anywhere - Bots

 Automation Anywhere Bots

Automation Anywhere support following type of Bots.

1. Task Bot : Task bots are used to execute task, execute the repetitive rule base process that relay on structure of data. those are easy to build and maintain, operate on presentation layer with any desktop app, execute multiple processes with no errors.

Task bot use- web recorder, object recorder and task editor with support of 582 commands, it runs in background.

2. IQ Bot : IQ bots are next generation inteligent part with cognitive capability, which learn and grows smarter having vision skill

3. Meta Bot : Meta Bots are scalable, extensible, compliance, resilience, maintainabile and offline automation. Those are available in AA enterprise, leverage with task bot, vbscript and macros. it has capable of visual capture, application APIs, navigational flows. Meta Bot offers high ROI, scale automation effectively, company wide automation.

Meta Bot designer - add dlls, record the GUI, upload metabot to control room to repository, allow to wrok multiple metabot at same time and assets display as dlls. all the logics are independent unit.

• AA enterprise have integrated version control
• Client -download and check in-out version history and rollback the previous version in needed
• Credential vault - allow to enterprise level security standard and credential management
• key feature - centralized secure vault enterprise grade AES256 can be access by authentic user only KMIP

Ways to create bot : 2 ways - recording and task editor

Steps to create bot:

1.  create a new task using task editor
2. open application using open program/ file command
3. use window actions command to maximize application
4. start recording using smart recorder
5. fill up the form in application and stop the recording once done
6. use open spreadsheet command to open excel file that contain data need to be filled in to application
7. get cell command to read all data from excel sheet
8. use add variable option to create variable to store data that we read from excel
9. use loop command along with each row in excel and extract specific command and assign them to chosen variable
10. edit object cloning command we created earlier and use text to set parameter to set the value
11. close spreadsheet and save the task

Reference: Automation Anywhere learnings.