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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

Community Article: Bot Assistant Extension

This article and the referenced chrome extension were created by our community author Sumit Kumar. For any support or queries regarding this extension, please reach out to Sumit.Kindly note that this is not created/supported by Automation Anywhere, but it’s a great example of the creativity and contribution of the Automation Anywhere developer community.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.What is Bot Assistant Extension ?It is a browser extension which adds new features to your A360 bot editor/ viewer.This extension does not need any special permission and is ready to work out of the box.How To Use?You can find it on chrome webstore: A360 Bot Assistant. Click “Add to chrome” button. This will show what this extension will access, in this case no special permissions. Click “Add extension”.Navigate to A360 bot edit/view (?public/private) page and click ext

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arjun.medaPathfinder Community Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Bot Games Season 4 Generative AI Edition Announcement & Details - Challenge #1

Use Case Challenge #1: Healthcare AI We're thrilled to kick off the first challenge of Bot Games Season 4. This season, we're encouraging users to explore the potential of Generative AI and how it can enhance the functionality of your automations. Use cases that were previously impossible to automate can now be automated thanks to the Automation Success Platform paired with Generative AI. We can't wait to witness the innovative solutions that our Automation Anywhere Developer Community will develop for this challenge. It's time to get your creative juices flowing and reimagine the way you've previously thought about automation!If you’ve never used ChatGPT before, you may want to create an account here. The OpenAI platform provides a trial version to test it out for a limited period. You can get the API for your OpenAI account here.Note - you aren’t limited to only using OpenAI’s ChatGPT - you should be able to solve these challenges with any number of Generative AI model providers -

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Learn to Harness the Power of Generative AI with Automation at Our Special Automation + AI:Live Event in June

If your organization is feeling strained and that pressure is trickling down to you and your automation program…we hear you, and you’re not alone.Every company is in the midst of a productivity crisis - either driven by a labor shortage, cost constraints, or competitive pressures. At the same time, McKinsey predicts that in order to meet global GDP targets, businesses will need to see a 50% increase in productivity!To that we say - let’s put Generative AI to work with the Automation Success Platform. The combination of generative AI and automation possesses the power to unlock the next wave of productivity and—dare we say—trigger our next industrial revolution, completely changing the way we work and empowering teams to create their own productivity tools that will help them expand their impact on business.Join our special digital event, Automation + AI LIVE, featuring experts across AI and automation to learn exactly how you can employ generative AI within the Automation Success Platf

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arjun.medaPathfinder Community Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Bot Games Season 4 Generative AI Edition Solution Tutorial Challenge #1

Challenge Page Tutorial - Healthcare AI Bot Games Challenge Pages provide an excellent opportunity to learn about automation development. Have you completed the Healthcare AI Challenge? If you have, that's fantastic! If not, don't worry - we're here to show you one approach to solve this challenge and discuss other methods to help you automate this use case. Watch the video above for a complete walk-through of the challenge solution. Additionally, we're outlining some pointers below to help you maximize your speed if you want to see how quickly you can finish the challenge.Here is the link to the Healthcare AI Challenge Page with full details. Step Package If looking at an entire end-to-end process feels overwhelming, consider first thinking through the major steps required to complete the task, then work on each step, one at a time. In the tutorial video above, we break down the entire bot into multiple steps. Using steps can help developers create logical groupings/separations in th

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Pathfinder Community Camp Flight Plan & Tools - Mission #3Community Event

[Part of the 1st Annual Pathfinder Community Camp hosted in May 2023] 🚀 PATHFINDER MISSION OVERVIEW The Automation Pathfinder Program is your intergalactic flight map for automation mission success. Developed with over 20 years of first-hand automation expertise across thousands of use cases, each mission is calibrated to serve as your blueprint for best practices to achieve scalable growth, measurable value, and long-term sustainability. We’re here to help you soar beyond RPA to implement and advance intelligent automation initiatives in your business. 📌DAY 4 | MISSION PARAMETERSThis is your mission focus of the day. Mission #3 - Optimize Automation Development & Delivery: You need to deliver at massive scale. Let’s recalibrate your automation development and delivery practice. 🔨 CRITICAL TOOLS FOR MISSION SUCCESSThis is your command module fully loaded with the critical tools you need for mission success. 🌟 Best Practice Guide for Establishing Standards🌟 Framework for Build

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Stellar Keynote Recap: Unlocking Career Success with Automation Anywhere CertificationCommunity Event

Welcome to our Stellar Keynote Recap Series! As part of the 1st Annual Pathfinder Community Space Camp & Generative AI Showcase, we’re hosting live sessions with Community MVPs and industry experts to share the latest developments in intelligent automation—especially Generative AI!—and provide you with learnings and resources to drive success at scale. If you don’t have the chance to attend the live session or want to come back to reference some of the critical mission information that was discussed, we’ve captured key intel from each session to share with you! Day 2 Stellar Keynote featured an educational takeover by our Automation Anywhere University team! This session was led by Binu Kurup, Sr. Director of Education Product Management, and she was joined by two special guests—Anne-Sophie Derame, Digital Transformation Manager at Abbott, and Swarna Kuruganti, Digital Innovation-Operations Transformation at Moffitt Cancer Center—who were kind enough to share their experiences wit

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Pathfinder Community Camp Flight Plan & Tools - Mission #6Community Event

[Part of the 1st Annual Pathfinder Community Camp hosted in May 2023] 🚀 PATHFINDER MISSION OVERVIEW The Automation Pathfinder Program is your intergalactic flight map for automation mission success. Developed with over 20 years of first-hand automation expertise across thousands of use cases, each mission is calibrated to serve as your blueprint for best practices to achieve scalable growth, measurable value, and long-term sustainability. We’re here to help you soar beyond RPA to implement and advance intelligent automation initiatives in your business. 📌DAY 3 | MISSION PARAMETERSThis is your mission focus of the day. Mission #6 - Scale Through Citizen Development: You want enterprise-wide automation...over time. You need step-by-step guidance to enable a Digital Workforce with a governance-first plan. 🔨 CRITICAL TOOLS FOR MISSION SUCCESSThis is your command module fully loaded with the critical tools you need for mission success. 🌟 Blueprint: Achieving Success at Scale with Citiz

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Stellar Keynote Recap: Generative AI Ask Me AnythingCommunity Event

Welcome to our Stellar Keynote Recap Series! As part of the 1st Annual Pathfinder Community Space Camp & Generative AI Showcase, we’re hosting live sessions with Community MVPs and industry experts to share the latest developments in intelligent automation—especially Generative AI!—and provide you with learnings and resources to drive success at scale. If you don’t have the chance to attend the live session or want to come back to reference some of the critical mission information that was discussed, we’ve captured key intel from each session to share with you! Day 1 Stellar Keynote covered the spotlight topic of this year’s Space Camp—Generative AI! We were joined by Peter White, SVP Product, and Pratyush Garikapati, Director, Product Management, to provide valuable knowledge and help answer insightful questions LIVE from our community. This session was truly community-led, with questions directly from our Pathfinder community driving the conversation. Thank you to all our member

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Space Camp Day 2 Flight Plan & Tools - Mission #4Community Event

[Part of the 1st Annual Pathfinder Community Camp hosted in May 2023] 🚀 PATHFINDER MISSION OVERVIEW The Automation Pathfinder Program is your intergalactic flight map for automation mission success. Developed with over 20 years of first-hand automation expertise across thousands of use cases, each mission is calibrated to serve as your blueprint for best practices to achieve scalable growth, measurable value, and long-term sustainability. We’re here to help you soar beyond RPA to implement and advance intelligent automation initiatives in your business. 📌 DAY 2 | MISSION PARAMETERSThis is your mission focus of the day.Mission #4 - Scale Your Team for Success: You want to expand operational efforts and upskill or certify your new team members in order to thrust your efforts into lightspeed.🌌 Now Entering The AAU Atmosphere: With Mission #4 focus engaged, we’re activating an Automation Anywhere University takeover sequence to spearhead today’s sessions and activities for upskilling

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Build Your Skills as an Automation Leader - New Learning Opportunities

Taking on the role of automation leader is an exciting opportunity, but it comes with the responsibility for leading and managing your organization's implementation of complex automation processes. This is no small task, and you’ll probably need to use a wide variety of skills to be successful.The good news? All the skills you need can be learned and Automation Anywhere has training to help support your growth and development. If you’re already leading your automation program, or you’re ready to climb the career ladder, read on to learn what skills will help you be an effective automation leader.5 skill areas to master as an automation leaderTechnical SkillsAutomation leaders should have a deep understanding of the technical aspects of automation, automation tools and platforms, and data analysis techniques. Automation Anywhere University has several courses designed to help you expand your technical skills. Ready to get started? Start with these two:Building your First Automation Bot

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Pathfinder Community Camp Flight Plan & Tools - Mission #1 & Mission #2Community Event

[Part of the 1st Annual Pathfinder Community Camp hosted in May 2023] 🚀 PATHFINDER MISSION OVERVIEW The Automation Pathfinder Program is your intergalactic flight map for automation mission success. Developed with over 20 years of first-hand automation expertise across thousands of use cases, each mission is calibrated to serve as your blueprint for best practices to achieve scalable growth, measurable value, and long-term sustainability. We’re here to help you soar beyond RPA to implement and advance intelligent automation initiatives in your business. 📌 DAY 1 | MISSION PARAMETERSThis is your mission focus of the day. Mission #1 - Quick Start Success: You are just initializing the launch sequence for your automation program. You need to identify, prioritize and deliver on quick wins—while building the team for success—in order to achieve a successful lift off.Mission #2 - Empowering A Growth Mindset: Your flight crew has proven strong success with your initial automation use cases

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allison.ablePathfinder Community Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Our NEW Tool - The Pathfinder Assessment - Has Tailored Solutions For Your Automation Program Growth

Pathfinder is the only community-driven program that helps you move beyond RPA to advance intelligent automation initiatives in your business Our new Pathfinder Assessment pinpoints exactly where you are in your automation journey and how to drive the outcomes you are seeking Gather your team and complete the assessment together to receive valuable, actionable insightsThe Automation Pathfinder Program helps you move beyond RPA to advance intelligent automation initiatives in your business. Pathfinder provides you and your team with a clear roadmap to propel your automation program from start, to accelerate, to scale. Developed by Automation Anywhere, your Pathfinder peer community, and our trusted industry partners, the Pathfinder Program lays out 5 pillars of a successful automation program and details key benchmarks to hit within each pillar by phase.Why did we create the Pathfinder Program? Our community members experience the same common challenges throughout the lifecycle of their

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allison.ablePathfinder Community Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Pathfinder Community Camp Day Special Edition Flight Plan & Tools - Generative AI EditionCommunity Event

[Part of the 1st Annual Pathfinder Community Camp hosted in May 2023] 🚀 PATHFINDER MISSION OVERVIEW The Automation Pathfinder Program is your intergalactic flight map for automation mission success. Developed with over 20 years of first-hand automation expertise across thousands of use cases, each mission is calibrated to serve as your blueprint for best practices to achieve scalable growth, measurable value, and long-term sustainability. We’re here to help you soar beyond RPA to implement and advance intelligent automation initiatives in your business. Today’s Bonus Mission - Generative AI 📌 MISSION PARAMETERSThis is your mission focus of the day. 3...2...1...Blast off! GenAI has taken the world by storm with its futuristic ability to turn natural language into creative content and images. And now, we’re taking automation to new heights by integrating OpenAI’s generative AI tools with your favorite Automation Success Platform! Say goodbye to tedious document hunting, boring emails,

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allison.ablePathfinder Community Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Acquire Knowledge & Emblazon Your Achievements With Exclusive Pathfinder Community Camp Badges!Community Event

To accompany our 1st Annual Space Camp & Generative AI Showcase event, the Pathfinder Community crew has specially engineered 5 exclusive Space Camp badges with a bonus below!By completing various criteria throughout the event, participants will gain knowledge, expand their community bandwidth, and earn these interstellar badges to emblazon their achievements on their profile. Like collecting rare moon rocks, Space Camp badges are unique identifiers that transmit the message that you embody a growth mindset and take a keen interest in staying closely connected to emerging tech in Intelligent Automation. Tap in to our forward-thinking event and collect all 6 unique badges! Space Camp Live Event Attendee Attend at least one live event and be awarded this badge.Note - to receive a badge you must have an active Pathfinder Community profile. Zero Gravity Lounge Top Contributor Contribute to at least two daily Zero Gravity Lounge prompts by May 9th. Zero Gravity Lounge Links: Note - to

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Meetup Recap: Automating SAP with Automation 360

Thanks to our guest speakers ChanduMohammad S and Asif Shaikh for sharing your expertise with the developer community.During this virtual meetup, we discussed the following topics:Prerequisite for Automating SAP Exploring Actions in SAP package Automating SAP via VBScript Passing variables from bot to VB script and vice-versa.Here is the recording of the session for your reference: Here are the reference materials:Pre-requisites for SAP automation as explained from Asif's blog Scripting Tracker Sample bots used in the demos Reference VB scriptConclusion:There are multiple ways to Automate SAP applications from No code to Pro code options, you can choose your preferred way based on your use case and the developer skillset. To know about our upcoming meetups, here are the meetup group links in different cities for you to join. 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 M

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Azhar HossainMost Valuable Pathfinder

published in Pathfinder Blog

Transforming Unstructured Data into Structured Data with Automation Anywhere's ChatGPT PackageMost Valuable Pathfinder

Introduction:In today's digital era, businesses are grappling with enormous amounts of unstructured data, which represents most of the data generated across various platforms. Unstructured data, such as customer support tickets, emails, and social media posts, often contain valuable insights. However, it is challenging to extract and process this data due to its inherently disorganized nature. This article will discuss how using the ChatGPT model with Automation Anywhere's ChatGPT package can help organizations convert unstructured data into structured data using ticket descriptions as an example.The Challenge:The main challenge with unstructured data is that it doesn't fit neatly into databases and cannot be easily processed or analyzed. Additionally, the manual effort required to structure this data is time consuming, error-prone, and costly. Leveraging Automation Anywhere's ChatGPT package can address these challenges.The Solution: Automation Anywhere's ChatGPT package offers a powe

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Getting Hands on With CoE Manager

Hands-on With CoE ManagerOne of the most exciting topics at Imagine 2022 was the announcement of CoE Manager for the Automation Success Platform. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the process of using CoE Manager to submit, track, manage, and monitor an automation opportunity from idea submission to a deployed automation.What is CoE Manager?CoE Manager is a cloud-based platform enabling automation programs to scale, and drive value from their automation practice.Scale your automation pipeline by optimizing the idea submission process Systematically analyze submitted opportunities based on complexity, alignment to strategic objectives, and ROI for the business Minimize the effort in tracking, reporting, and managing your automation delivery cycle Report on value generated by delivered automations Including projections for automations that are still in pipeline/development What is an Opportunity?Every automation/use-case that is tracked in CoE Manager is an opportunity. An submitt

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Google AI + Automation Anywhere

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allison.ablePathfinder Community Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

1st Annual Pathfinder Community Camp & Generative AI Showcase - Session RecordingsCommunity Event

There is still time to join us for an out-of-this-world experience as we celebrate the official launch of your community with our 1st Annual Pathfinder Community Space Camp - live session recordings now available! This year’s mid-year community symposium - full of live, virtual sessions, including special discussions and activities around GenerativeAI—was built to propel you to success, no matter the stage of your automation journey. Pathfinder Community Space Camp and its associated activities were themed to align with the Pathfinder Program’s 7 Missions for Automation Scale. Each live session included:Stellar Keynote - Community MVPs and industry leaders share the latest developments in Intelligent Automation, Generative AI, and how they’re driving success at scale. Mission Control Spotlight - Get ready to blast off with the latest innovations and updates from Automation Anywhere’s Automation Success Platform. Live Q&A - Learn from industry peers and product experts in every sess

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jimfrostMost Valuable Pathfinder

published in Pathfinder Blog

How to Build an Automation Team for Long Term Scale & Growth – Part 1: Establishing Your FoundationMVP | Automation Pathfinder Program

Introduction My name is Jim Frost, and over the next several blog posts, I will be highlighting areas you need to consider when building your automation team for long-term growth and scalability, beginning with the foundational work, moving through the short-to-medium term growing pains, and finally scaling your team across your entire organization. Over my 40-year career, I’ve been a part and led teams of various sizes and complexity. I’ve led very small teams in a technical start-up firm, as well as large teams that spanned multiple business areas across several continents. While all were different, they shared some of the same needs. Keeping these top-of-mind is critical:Good cultural alignment across the team Defined roles and responsibilities for every team member Clear expectations in all things Clear vision of where the team is heading and potential career paths for individuals Clear, open, and honest communication In an automation program, people are the most important ass

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Handling Long-Running Tasks in Automation Anywhere

There are many times when it may be helpful for a bot to stop until a prerequisite condition is met and then restarted at the point where the bot exited. Examples where this may useful include waiting for an overnight job to run successfully, executing a remote task to run on another system closer to the data or processes more quickly, or optimizing time and efficiency in attended mode operations.Effective bot design can significantly improve your bot utilization. Polling and wait operations will limit the availability of the Automation Anywhere Bot Runner to execute other bots that are queued to run. Automation Anywhere provides multiple mechanisms to help optimize bot efficiency in tandem with good bot design.The first and most effective way to ensure the bot is not stalled waiting for an event to occur is to use triggers. Triggers run bots when a condition is met. For example, appearance of a file in a folder. When the conditions of the trigger are met, the associated bot will be ex

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

AI & Automation - Let's Ideate!Monthly Badge Challenge

Opinions on Machine Learning and AI Research are everywhere. One provider in particular is getting maximum airtime: OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Spoiler alert: Yes, Automation Anywhere integrates with OpenAI. Those of you with a healthy skepticism about this Large Language Model fear not. We also integrate with a wealth of other AI options.Many of these technologies have the power to transform how we work and, by default, our workplace. But we’re not here to box you into any one solution (in terms of conversation OR integration). Instead, we want to hear YOUR ideas on the value of AI and Automation. There are already a ton of research papers from big tech companies, influencer pieces and forum conversations grabbing at your attention. While all of this has the potential to greatly benefit developers, the Pathfinder Community wants YOU to join in the conversation!We’re in a time of pushing the frontier of what AI and Automation can do. And we know you’ll be at the forefront of that exciting growth

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allison.ablePathfinder Community Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

[March Galaxy Series Badge Challenge] Pushing the Boundaries of Automation: Share Your Innovative OpenAI ChatGPT Package Use CaseBadge Challenge

Each month we’ll post the steps you need to earn an exclusive, limited-run badge. You have only that month to complete the challenge before the badge is decommissioned. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FEBRUARY AWARDEES!Check out the amazing highlighted use cases our community has shared to date on how to leverage AI capabilities like ChatGPT & the Automation Success Platform: Your badge should be displayed on your profile on over the next few days. If you do not see it by March 17th, please reach out to the Pathfinder Community Team at community@automationanywhere.com. What is in store for March? Follow the link below to earn your next Galaxy Series badge!

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Quick Tip: Using the Credential Vault

Automation Anywhere Enterprise A2019 enables developers to leverage an in-built Credential Vault to securely store and retrieve values like usernames, passwords, URLs, environment variables, etc. In this session, we'll look at how to set up a Credential Vault Locker, how to add a Credential to it, and how we can reference the attributes of those credentials from directly within our bot. Note: If you want to follow along with Micah in the demo, the challenge page he is using can be found here. What is the Credential Vault? The Credential Vault is a centralized vault for securely storing values that can be provisioned to bots. This vault enables the secure storage and retrieval of sensitive values using AES-256 encryption - the same encryption standard approved for use in the US government for the storage of Top Secret material. Enables bots to be environment agnostic Can be used for storing more than just credentials (URLs, environment variables, network share location

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

published in Pathfinder Blog

Adding Microsoft Teams Notifications into a Bot Build

This tutorial is a guest post from Santosh Kumar Sabat from Giant Eagle - a grocery store and pharmacy chain in the United States. Bots that can automate business processes clearly add immense value to organizations looking for a productivity boost. For many organizations, however, the robotic process automation happens invisibly to operational staff who may benefit from additional details around the status of bot executions, in addition to processing details like number of tasks completed or confirmation numbers. In order to provide this additional visibility to support staff, operational staff, and CoE leads - bots can be integrated with Microsoft Teams notifications to update different Teams channels when certain processing events occur. In this tutorial, we'll take a look at how Microsoft Teams channel notifications can be sent directly from within a bot. Launch Microsoft Teams if it isn't already opened Select a channel that you're a member of Channels are dedicated section

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