How to Aggregate Records by Summing Amounts in Automation Anywhere?

Let me tag some folks to help you with this:

​@Marc Mueller 

​@LnMamou 

​@amore17 

​@sharath G 

Personally, I would do this kind of data manipulation in Excel. But, should you REALLY want to do this in Automation Anywhere, here’s how I would attack the problem:

1. I would use a List variable as an array for the names. This would allow me to quickly look through the names array (List variable) for the matching name and get the index. If one does not match, I would add it to the list and get the index of the added value.

2. Using the index from the name array, I would have another List variable for the totals. The index from the names variable would match the totals variable.

The challenging part is to ensure that you’re keeping the indexes of the two List variables (names and totals) in sync.

Once you’re done looping through all your entries, you can loop through the List variable (names) and using a counter for the index for totals, to export/display all the names/totals.

This could also be done with a single Data Table variable with two columns. If you really want to get fancy, you could do this with a Dictionary variable using the name as the index for the variable and using the variable itself to hold the total.

There are plenty of ways to accomplish this! Sounds like a fun exercise!