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arjun.medaPathfinder Community Team

Bot Games Season 4 Generative AI Edition Solution Tutorial Challenge #3

Automation Resiliency Challenge Solution Tutorial The grand finale is here! After three weeks of groundbreaking challenges, Bot Games Season 4 comes to an epic conclusion. What an unbelievable ride this has been. Did you solve every challenge? We hope you pushed the limits of your skills and imagination with each challenge. The challenges were meant to inspire the very best in automation innovation, and from what we've seen you far surpassed our wildest expectations!This week - we’re focused in on the Automation Resiliency Challenge though. How can we keep an automation running even in spite of application UI changes? If you didn’t get a chance to check out our intro/explanation of this weeks challenge, we have that here...but our goal for this post is to dive into exactly how we think about solving this challenge and adding resiliency and stability to our automations.The video above walks through the entire build end to end - so you can build along with us, but we wanted to call out

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arjun.medaPathfinder Community Team

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Bot Games Season 4 Generative AI Edition Announcement & Details - Challenge #3

Challenge #3 - Automation Resiliency We're excited to present the third and final challenge of Bot Games Season 4. Our aim in this challenge is to showcase how a Generative AI model can enhance automation resilience. When target applications are updated, the object paths for elements may change, requiring updates to the corresponding automations. By utilizing a Generative AI provider like ChatGPT (or any other provider of your choosing), we can input the source code of a web page and request object paths for all the necessary elements. These paths can then be used to automate interactions with the web page.OpenAI Generative AI package is available in Bot Store and you can read the included documentation or check out our quickstart video showing the full setup process. If you are using your own enterprise version of Control Room, you can download the OpenAI Generative AI package from the Bot Store and import it. If you are using the Community edition, it is already pre-loaded. Challeng

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arjun.medaPathfinder Community Team

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Bot Games Season 4 Generative AI Edition Solution Tutorial Challenge #2

Challenge Page Tutorial -Shipment ProcessingIf you're interested in learning about automation development, the Bot Games Challenge Pages are a great place to start.Have you tried the Shipment Processing Challenge yet? If so, great job! If not, don't worry - we're here to help you get started.To help you succeed, we've put together a step-by-step video guide for how to solve this challenge, along with some useful tips to help you automate this use case. Additionally, we're providing some pointers below to help you increase your efficiency and finish the challenge as quickly as possible.Don't be intimidated by this challenge! With a little bit of practice, you'll be able to automate the shipment processing use case in no time.Here is the link to the Shipment Processing Challenge Intro Page with full details.Challenge page: https://developer.automationanywhere.com/challenges/shipment-processing-challenge.html OpenAI Generative AI Package This cutting-edge package brings the power of OpenA

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arjun.medaPathfinder Community Team

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Bot Games Season 4 Generative AI Edition Announcement & Details - Challenge #2

Challenge #2: Shipment Processing Welcome to the second challenge of Bot Games Season 4! Our objective this time is to showcase how a Generative AI model can enhance and improve existing data in the Manufacturing industry. It's important to note that Generative AI isn't limited to solving complex problems, but can also handle simple and routine tasks with ease.Note: 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.Please note that you are not restricted to using only OpenAI's ChatGPT to solve these challenges. You can use any number of Generative AI model providers to complete the tasks. We have chosen ChatGPT as our primary tool for most of our testing, but feel free to use any provider that suits your needs.Like experimenting with any emerging technology, you may encounter a few things that feel wonky in these Generative AI ch

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arjun.medaPathfinder Community Team

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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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arjun.medaPathfinder Community Team

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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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Azhar HossainPartner

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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

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Google AI + Automation Anywhere

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Tamil Arasu10Most Valuable Pathfinder

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How to Use OAuth 2.0 with REST APIMost Valuable Pathfinder

This is a guest post written by Tamil Arasu, Automation Anywhere MVP and RPA Developer with Fugro Netherlands. In this article, you will learn how to use OAuth2.0 in the REST API package with the Bearer token. Modern authentication is used to integrate/communicate between applications. As the Automation Success Platform does not currently support OAuth2.0 on the REST API package directly, let’s see how we can connect or integrate the application via OAuth2.0 using A360. By following this method, you can establish communication between various applications via OAuth2.0 using A360 REST API Package. OAuth 2.0OAuth 2.0 is the industry-standard protocol for authorization. OAuth 2.0 focuses on client developer simplicity while providing specific authorization flows for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and living room devices. OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token UsageA Bearer Token is an opaque string, not intended to have any meaning to clients using it. Some servers will issue tok

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allison.ablePathfinder Community Team

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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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Setric BreezeMember

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Understanding Groups Creation/Classification in IQ Bot

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 understand how IQ Bot understands documents and creates/classifies the groups. Here are the steps:IQ Bot reads data in the document from Left to Right and Top to Bottom SIR gets generated based on how OCR reads the data Each SIR is referred to Aliases Field from the SQL Server table [AliasData].[dbo].[Aliases]. IQ Bot will search for the identified keyword from the document and add it to this table to find the respective Field ID With the identified Field ID, it again searches for exact field name (Required Form Field Name) and ID corresponding to it from the table [AliasData].[dbo].[Fields] With the ID that is identified from [AliasData].[dbo].[Fields] IQ Bot classifies each identified fie

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4 months ago

ChanduMohammadPartner

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How to Use Code Analysis in the Automation Success PlatformMost Valuable Pathfinder

This is a guest post from Automation Anywhere Most Valuable Pathfinder ChanduMohammad S, a Module Lead and Senior RPA Developer. Currently, most of us use the manual code review process, which means we wait until development is finished before starting the code review process with the Lead Developer (or the Architect in some organizations). Every developer has a unique way of developing solution; however, to promote consistency across the team or organization, developers will be required to refer to existing Coding Best Practices for Reliability & Maintainability of the Code. This begs the questions: Do you really need to wait until the development is complete for the code review? Or, during development, If you as an RPA/Citizen Developers, deviate from the set of best practices will the bot editor alert us with remediation steps to deliver the reliable code? Automation Success Platform comes with a new feature called Code Analysis [a.k.a Linter] which helps you define and enf

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Micah.SmithPathfinder Community Team

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Creating a Solution Design Document for What's to ComeAutomation Pathfinder Program

Note: The word “Bot” is used in this article to describe the process in its automated form. The word “task bot” is used to identify component parts which make up the Bot.If a Process Definition Document (PDD) is the “as-is” capture of the process, then a Solution Design Document (SDD) is the “to-be”. That is, a diagrammatic representation of what the process will look like once it’s automated.When the process has been approved for automation and the PDD has been signed off by the process owner & technical team, then creating the SDD is the next step in the cycle. The SDD should be a bridge between the PDD and the automation which will be built. It should serve as a technical guide for the developer, outlining key process steps and how they will be automated, the applications involved, and even how exceptions should be handled.For the purpose of the Start phase of Automation Design, we’ll dive into the Automation Anywhere SDD template before exploring how and where these documents

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

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Framework for Expanding Automation OpportunitiesAutomation Pathfinder Program

By now, you’ve hopefully built some familiarity with the Solution Patterns introduced in the Start phase. You’ve likely found that a good number of your use cases fit into one of those patterns, and your familiarity with the patterns has made the process of categorizing, documenting, and delivering automations a more streamlined process. We aren’t ditching those patterns. They are still valid and there are still plenty of new use cases that will come to you that will fit one of the patterns described. We are , however, going to explore a few new patterns so you can expand the types of automation opportunities that the team can take on. This isn't just for the sake of saying “there's different ones too!” Expansion into these new patterns represents a maturity in your use of the full capabilities of the Automation Anywhere platform and enables your automation practice to open up to new ways of thinking about how Automation Anywhere created automations can enable the various business tea

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

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Framework for Building Out AutomationsAutomation Pathfinder Program

Automation Anywhere has been approved, everything is set up, and your organization is chomping at the bit to get some productivity gains from the automations that can be created using this new software. YOU are the person responsible for leading the organization in and through this automation journey. No pressure, right? One of the first challenges you’ll likely face is answering the question “What types of processes should we automate?” In an effort to help answer that question - and provide you with a maturity framework to answer that question in a different way as you continue to build experience and expertise with your automation deliveries - we’ve created a Solution Pattern Modeling Framework. The Automation Anywhere Solution Pattern Modeling Framework is designed to be applied as you evaluate and work through new automation use cases to help speed up the process of building out your automations, documenting your automations, and ensuring that your production implementation has

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

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Complimentary Technologies-Start PhaseAutomation Pathfinder Program

Beginning to Leverage Complimentary Technologies One of the most appealing aspects of Automation 360 is that it's not programming-language-specific. You don't have to be an expert at any specific programming language to be able to build robust, high-impact automations, making for an easy-to-learn, approachable platform. That said, while learning about the capabilities of Automation 360, you may have noticed that it also enables developers to leverage several programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, .NET, etc) from within a bot by leveraging language-specific packages and a customizable package SDK. In this blog post, we'll take a look at why you may want to hold off on some of that functionality and when/where it makes sense. Out-of-the-Box Packages: Working with Interfaces Automation 360 offers a wide range of out-of-the-box packages designed to enable automation developers to automate with/on various interfaces. These available packages enable automation developers to automa

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

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Meetup Recap: Working with DLLs in Automation 360

In this session, we discussed about how to create DLLs, how to use them in Automation 360 and their real world applications. Building a DLL To build a DLL, you will need access to an IDE such as Visual Studio , knowledge of C# language and the supported data types in DLL functions within the Automation 360 platform.While creating a DLL in Visual Studio, select the project type Class Library (.Net framework) and the preferred language to build a DLL is C#. Dipendra showed us how to build a simple DLL that can find the minimum and maximum among the 2 input numbers and also from a list of numbers. You can download the DLL code (see attachment) to try it out. Also, you can see the code from the screenshots below. Conclusion: If you already have existing DLLs built on .NET framework or if you have a team of .NET developers in your team, then you can build powerful DLLs and use them in the Automation Anywhere platform. However, the preferred method to extend Automation 360 platform capabili

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

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How to Re-Process Failed Work Items in a Queue

With Workload management, you can quickly process vast amounts of transactions by distributing the workload among multiple devices in the device pool.Let’s say you have created a queue, a device pool and scheduled a bot to run when a specified minimum number of work items are added to the queue. While the transactions are being processed, you may notice that there are a couple of work items that have failed and want to know how to re-process these transactions.Let us look at the steps to fix the data (if needed) and re-process these transactions.In this Invoice Processing example, data from invoices in a specified folder are extracted using IQ Bot and fed into custom web application for payments processing.Here is the breakdown of the two-part bot setup to execute the Invoice processing use case. As you can see in the diagram above, the second bot picks up the Invoice files from the path added to the Queue by the first bot.Let’s consider an error that a work item failed since the speci

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

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Virtual Meetup: Working with DLLs in Automation 360

This session is scheduled for Sep 7th, Wednesday between 7.30 PM - 8.45 PM IST (10 AM - 11.15 AM EDT).Automation 360 platform is extensible and you can bring in the power of different technologies and use them within the platform to explore additional capabilities.In this virtual meetup, we will discuss about the following topics:What is a DLL? Why we need a DLL? Creating a DLL using Visual Studio Using DLL in Automation 360 bot Applications of DLLs in real-world scenariosFor this session, we have invited Dipendra Shekhawat, our own Solution Architect at Automation Anywhere to share his experience working with DLLs in Automation 360 platform, along with our Developer Evangelist Arjun S Meda. Dipendra also has his Youtube channel Dipendra Shekhawat where he teaches different tech topics along with RPA in Hindi.To join us, please register here.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

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

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Virtual Meetup Recap: Building Your Brand - Thinking Beyond Just Bot Development

In this virtual meetup, we discussed about how you can build your brand and the tools you can use. Our Panelists blog:Asif's blog: https://www.rpabloggs.com/ Ashwin's blog: https://thecodingtheory.com/ Chand's blog: https://dev.to/chandmohammadTools to use:Slides/Images MS PowerPoint Canva Photopea Adobe ExpressVideo recording/editingCamtasia Active Presenter OBS Studio DaVinci ResolveAudioAudacityStock Images:Pixabay Pexels UnsplashConclusion:In this era of content creators and influencers, it’s not just enough to do the work quietly and let the work speak, instead, we need to show the world what we can do, help others grow, and help ourselves grow on the way.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 Group Delhi Meetup Group Chennai Meetup Group Hyderabad Meetup Group Pune Meetup Group Singapore

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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

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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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Automation Anywhere TeamAutomation Anywhere Team

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Migrating Metabots with DLLs to A360

MetaBots are highly reusable, create it once, and use it everywhere functional subtasks. They are DLL or screen-capture based – and enable organizations to create highly reusable components that can be called from the bots that are created in Automation Anywhere Enterprise v10/v11. Because they can serve as reusable “library” style automation components, Metabots are also used to swiftly accommodate newer versions of apps and services utilized in an enterprise organization. Regardless of whether your MetaBots being DLL based or screen-capture based, at some point – you’ll need to migrate them to Automation 360. In this tutorial we’ll go through the process of migrating a bot that references a DLL-based Metabot to demonstrate what these assets look like as you migrate them to Automation360! For some background on the bots we’re working with, we're using an Automation Anywhere Enterprise v11 bot that was designed to complete this challenge. In this process, the Metabot is responsible fo

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

How to Use OAuth 2.0 with REST APIMost Valuable Pathfinder

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

How to Use Code Analysis in the Automation Success PlatformMost Valuable Pathfinder

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Managing Reusable Assets - Start PhaseAutomation Pathfinder Program

Creating a Solution Design Document for What's to ComeAutomation Pathfinder Program

Framework for Expanding Automation OpportunitiesAutomation Pathfinder Program

Framework for Building Out AutomationsAutomation Pathfinder Program

Complimentary Technologies-Start PhaseAutomation Pathfinder Program

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