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During Community Week we're hosting challenges and creating content with members of the Automation Anywhere community and in this one we have Helison Deoclecio as our guest  This video features Helison Deoclecio, an RPA Developer and lover of the IT world. He works at Autoglass, which is a Brazilian company that provides services to the insurance market, offers technology solutions and sells automotive glass and car parts to consumers, workshops and retailers. He's sharing a recent success story from his organization, with insights on how this process used to be done before automation, as well as how it is done currently now that it is automated. He tells us how he and his team were able to achieve this success, along with the lessons they learned from

As we work with RPA developers globally, we have created different meetup groups across cities in India and Singapore (and will continue to expand) currently and will continue to expand, and you can choose to connect with the groups closer to your location. We look forward to meeting you in person once the conditions get better, till then let's continue to meet online.Bengaluru Meetup GroupDelhi Meetup GroupChennai Meetup GroupHyderabad Meetup Group

Automation Anywhere offers out of the box solutions that have the power to scale RPA, and these are my top 3 platform highlights! Access control and compliance You probably have read articles talking about how bad it is to have a micromanaging boss. Well, what about bots? The good thing is that we can (and should) micromanage them! That's what audit logs, centralized governance, analytics and granular role-based access controls are for. If everyone within an organization is creating and executing random scripts on their desktops you now have an organizational dependency on files that are not centrally stored, not reviewed by IT, and not scalable... not to mention what may happen when the individuals creating these scripts leave the company. Automation Anywhere provides access control and compliance and that enables you to make sure that whoever is

 See what's new in the latest release of the A360 Intelligent Automation Platform: the highlights for process discovery, intelligent document processing, RPA, and digital assistants. Discovery Bot In v.23, Discovery Bot gives both the analyst and the recorder user an enhanced user experience. The new version of the dashboard provides you with a quick overview of all the opportunities and the ability to search for a specific opportunity. In addition, the Process Design Document can now be downloaded in both Word and PDF, at both the opportunity stage and the submitted recording stage. IQ Bot In this new release users can now have complete control for document classification and are not dependent on the auto-classifier. If you ever had trouble parsing information from different types of tables in standard forms, you will no longer have to worry abou

Objective Change is something that can be difficult for many teams and individuals to deal with. For many organizations, introducing the automation capabilities provided by RPA represents a swift departure from the “It’s done this way because it’s always been done this way” approach that many operations teams take. In this learning experience, we’ll discuss some of the resistance that some organizational teams may have to adopting RPA, and how the CoE can take an inclusive approach to turn them from despising RPA to delighting in RPA. Change is something that can be really challenging for many individuals to deal with. It often brings, at least in the short term, uncertainty, instability, and insecurity. For those that work in IT, dealing with change is commonplace, as they often have to help people integrate a new platform/service, implement a new software, or create a technical solution where none previously existed. In many operational roles, however

 IQ Bot is Automation Anywhere's Intelligent Document Processing solution. IQ Bot combines the power of RPA with AI technologies like Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), fuzzy logic, and Machine Learning (ML) to automatically extract and validated data from business documents and forms. To setup/use IQ Bot, the process can be simplified as follows:Create a learning instance of like documents. Example: Invoices Indicate the optional/required fields to be extracted from this type of document. Example: Invoice Number, Invoice Date, Amount Due, etc. Upload images that are representative of that type of d

Thanks to our guest speaker Ashwin Ashok for sharing his expertise with the developer community.During this virtual meetup, we discussed the following topics:Xpath:- Introduction to Xpaths- Absolute and Relative Xpaths- Special Keywords in Xpaths- Extracting Pseudo Web tablesRegular Expressions (Regex):- Introduction to Regex- Common Keywords- Grouping Regex Patterns- Advanced Regex (Assertions)Here is the recording of the session for your reference: Here are the sample bots referenced in the sessi

  Carpenters use certain tools for getting their work done - hammers, wrenches, screwdrivers etc...in that same way, Automation Anywhere developers use packages for getting their work done - Recorder package, Simulate Keystroke package, Loops package, etc. Packages are the "tools" available to bot builders for building out their automation. Having the ability to create custom packages in the Automation Success Platform gives developers the ability to accelerate bot development times not only for themselves but also for the Automation Anywhere bot builders within their organization. Custom packages can be used for (but are not limited to) interfacing with intern

This post is from Automation Anywhere Developer Evangelist Micah Smith. It's intended to be an entertaining, challenging, and thought-provoking look into his personal views on the future of RPA/automation. Sometimes I wish I could see into the future. I often wonder "Am I going to enjoy this piece of grilled chicken that my wife made me even though it looks like it may be undercooked, or am I going to spend all night vomiting uncontrollably?". In addition to wondering about the quality of the food I eat, I also think a lot about the future in terms of the work that I do now, the industry I'm in, and where Automation Anywhere customers may be 12-36 months from now.  While some would discount that as useless mind-wa

This is a guest post from ChanduMohammad S, a Module Lead and a Senior RPA Developer. If you have an idea for a blog post or tutorial that you think would benefit the Automation Anywhere developer community, let us know at developer@automationanywhere.com. In this tutorial, we will look at how to create the backup of IQBOT Learning Instances i.e .IQBA extension files.Let’s first try to understand what is IQBA file and why backup is required before we proceed further.A learning instance in IQBOT is exported as IQ Bot archive i.e., IQBA file. Groups, bots, and learnings associated with the learning instance are also exported during this process. Creating IQBA file is required to take a backup of existing Learning Instances and it can also be deployed t

In parts I and II of our Salesforce Connector series of tutorials, we set up our Salesforce Dev environment, installed and configured the Automation 360 connector, and did a quick smoke test to ensure that the connection from Salesforce to our Automation 360 Control Room was working. With all of that setup out of the way, we're going to jump into building out a full bot that's able to be triggered from the Salesforce UI, perform a data lookup on a case, then update the Salesforce object properties with the data the bot gathered. If you didn't get a chance to check out part 1 or 2 yet, be sure to check it out so you can learn how to set up your Salesforce Dev environment (free) and install the Automati

This is a guest post from Setric Breeze J, a Certified RPA Developer with over 6 years of IT Experience. If you have an idea for a blog post or tutorial that you think would benefit the Automation Anywhere developer community, let us know at developer@automationanywhere.com. In this tutorial, we will look at how you can create a custom domain to be used in IQ Bot.Let's first try to understand what a domain is and why a custom domain is required before we proceed to create a custom domain.A Domain contains information about the language of the documents and the fields that the system extracts from the documents.Creating a custom domain is highly recommended when one or more of the following conditions are met:The fiel

Thanks to our guest speaker ChanduMohammad S for sharing his expertise with the developer community. During this virtual meetup, we discussed the following topics: – Different Actions in REST Web Service package – Industry Use Cases – Demos – Q&A Here is the recording of the session for your reference:  Reference InformationGET POST File Package: This package is helpful to upload/download files to/from API.JSON Object Manager Bot Store Package:Detailed tutorial to learn about how to use it is available

In part I, we set up our Salesforce Dev environment and installed the Automation 360 connector - now, it's time to configure the connector and test! This is part 2 of our 3 part Salesforce connector tutorial series. If you didn't get a chance to check out part 1 yet, be sure to check it out so you can learn how to set up your Salesforce Dev environment (free) and install the Automation 360 connector. Setting Up and Using the Salesforce Connector Part IIThe Automation Anywhere RPA Bots for Salesforce app that's available on

Have you connected your Salesforce environment with your Automation 360 environment yet? If not - check out this 3 part tutorial series on setting up and using the Automation Anywhere Salesforce connector available on the Salesforce AppExchange. The Automation Anywhere RPA Bots for Salesforce app that's available on Salesforce's AppExchange enables organizations to tightly integrate their Salesforce environment with their Automation 360 environment. This integration enables Salesforce users to trigger bots directly from the Salesforce interface that can run on Automation 360 bot runners (this can be attended or unattended based on how each bot configuration is set up). Best of all, variables from the executing bot marked as output values can be mappe

Guest speaker: Asif Shaikh, Lead RPA Consultant at Atos Syntel.Automation Anywhere Control Room provides various APIs that allow you to customize the way that you (and your bots) interact with the Automation Anywhere platform.During this meetup, our Guest speaker Asif along with Arjun discussed the following topics:– Control Room Authentication– Deploying a bot– Export and Import a bot– Create and manage User Accounts and Roles– Create and manage CredentialsHere is the recording of the session for your reference:  You can download the Automation 360 postman collection discussed in the video from here.

This is a guest post from Asif Shaikh, a Lead RPA Consultant with Atos Syntel. If you have an idea for a blog post or tutorial that you think would benefit the Automation Anywhere developer community, let us know at developer@automationanywhere.com.  In this tutorial, we will look at how you can copy Credentials from V11 to Automation360 using Control Room APIs in Postman. Also, we have shared the link (at the end of the article) to the Automation 360 bot which can copy the credentials, if you would like to try it out. This is useful when you have an Automation 360 CR already setup and want to copy over the credentials from V11 CR. Here are the pre-requisites and information required before you can try out this tutorial:Basic Knowledge of

The newest Automation 360 updates hit the Automation Anywhere Community Edition last week by way of the .22 release. While the release itself has tons of killer features for both Community Edition and Enterprise users, we wanted to highlight some of the newest features that are now available in the Automation Anywhere Community Edition. Global Sessions Global Sessions are now available in the DLL package, the Excel Advanced package, and the Terminal Emulator Package. Global sessions enable developers to share sessions across multiple tasks/subtasks without having to close/re-open sessions and files. This also means that developers can build subtasks with maximum re-usability in mind as subtasks can easily be used across multiple bots – even in situations where sessions would have previously prohibited such reusability. To try out these new Global Sessions, use the Exce

Guest speaker: Theertha K S, A-lister & Technical Manager at Mindtree Limited.As we all know, PDF documents are one of the most common documents used in business processes. They can be categorized depending on the way the file originated. It can either be a Digitally created PDF or a scanned PDF.During this virtual meetup, we discussed the following topics:- Extract data from PDF- Merge and Split PDFs- Encrypt and decrypt documents- Set data to fillable PDFs  You can use PDF package, which is in-built in the Automation 360 platform. You can then explore extended capabilities through the PDF Utilities package from Bot

Bot Games 2021Bot Games 2021 was a month-long event created by developers, for developers designed to engage, upskill, challenge, and celebrate the Automation Anywhere developer community. Bot Games was a bit different this year (besides being 100% virtual) as there were two components:Bot Wars - a series of weekly challenge pages designed to test your skills as an RPA developer and gamify the experience of optimizing your solutions. (If you missed participating in any of these challenges - good news, they are still available)Bot Games Hackathon - a month-long project-driven experience designed for developers (or teams of developers) to demonstrate their expertise in bot building as they submitted projects around the theme of returning to a new normal - bots and solutions designed to help employees return

This tutorial is a guest post from Jim Frost, Solutions Partner at R-Path Automation. Jim is a Most Valuable Pathfinder, as well as an experienced automation architect responsible for designing solutions that achieve superior ROI for R-Path customers. He was gracious enough to share his insights on where AARI can add value to Automation Anywhere customers.   In this blog post, we'll walk through how you can utilize Automation Anywhere's Robotic Interface (AARI) in a Customer Support (CS) environment. This post will be primarily focused on:Discussing the most common use-case for AARI in a CS environment How to ask value-add questions during the stakeholder conversations Some other, non-CS use-cases we’ve been exposed to 

 The PDF Utilities Package is one of the most popular packages in Automation Anywhere’s Bot Store. This package provides a bot the ability to read and complete Adobe PDF and XFA forms. Additionally, this package provides for the capability of merging 2 PDF files or merging all PDF files found within a directory.The form fields actions support setting a checkbox, selecting a radio button, and selecting an item from a dropdown in a form.To follow along with the video tutorial above, use the attached AnywhereClubForm.Video Recap:Getting the PackageGo to

This tutorial is a guest post from A-lister, Sr. RPA Consultant & Solutions Architect, and You Tuber Azhar Hossain. Azhar is a creative problem solver and someone with a genuine passion for tech & automation. He was generous enough to create this really fun Siri & Automation Anywhere integration video to share with the Automation Anywhere developer community as a part of #BotGames. If you have an idea for a blog post or tutorial that you think would benefit the Automation Anywhere developer community, let us know at developer@automationanywhere.com.  Bots are awesome. They enable individuals and organizations to automate repetitive, mundane, and mind-numbing work. Most commonly though, people are

 The JSON Object Manager Package is one of the most popular packages in Automation Anywhere's Bot Store. This package enables developers to retrieve data from the JSON response of a REST web service call, read JSON config files, get the length of an array object within a JSON, or update JSON values based on the corresponding key. Here are the JSON files referenced in the video: Simple JSON file