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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 scenarios For 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 bette

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Hyperscaling the Automation Journey: 3 Pitfalls Keeping Your Automation Program From Growing

Everyone who starts an automation practice at their organization has the aspirations of growing and scaling that practice in a sustainable way - that can deliver meaningful benefit to their organization's digital transformation objectives. In this special Hyperscaling The Automation Journey series of #AAillustrates, we're diving into the proficiencies of automation programs that grow and scale - starting off with our first in the series: 3 Pitfalls Keeping Your Automation Program From Growing. Whether you've just stood up your first CoE, or you've been doing this for a few years - you won't want to miss our 3 common pitfalls - as we discuss the impacts they can have both on new and existing automation programs - as well as some actionable takeaways to get started with today - to promote sustained, scalable growth. Pitfall 1: Failing to Measure From the Start Many organizations fall into this trap - especially when they get started: they report on the "metrics" of the program by means o

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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/chandmohammad Tools to use: Slides/Images MS PowerPoint Canva Photopea Adobe Express Video recording/editing Camtasia Active Presenter OBS Studio DaVinci Resolve Audio Audacity Stock Images: Pixabay Pexels Unsplash Conclusion: 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 Gr

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Community Article: Supercharging Automation Anywhere with Workato

This tutorial is a guest post from Ashwin A.K from Speridian Technologies - a global business and technology solutions provider. Speridian's business and technology experts help clients modernize their businesses through Digital Transformation. 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. Developing robust automations doesn’t have to be a challenging task. You just need to understand what to use where. Image Caption: Which is ‘where’ most of us are stuck. If you are comfortable working with just RPA, chances are you will develop entire automations with whatever is currently available at the RPA workspace. If that is your approach, then you might not be too keen on exploring solutions that require a bit of scripting. On the flipside, if you love coding then you would be inclined to rely on scripts more, even going as far as to drench the entire automation with co

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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 for

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Using the JSON Package | #AAillustrates

Most REST Web Services (APIs), some configuration files, and many NoSQL DB's have something in common - they all use JSON. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a lightweight, extensible format for storing, transporting, and retrieving data. JSON is designed to be flexible, easy to understand - using key-value pairs of data - and is often used when data is sent from a server to a webpage (when the page you're reading loaded for example). In this tutorial, we'll take a look at using the built-in Automation 360 JSON package read JSON values and arrays from a REST Get response. The video tutorial above and text below makes reference to the following resources: Sample REST Get Endpoint (use this for your REST Web Service Get URI): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AutomationAnywhere/JSON_Package-EmployeeSample/main/HR-employeeSample.json JavaFX Package: https://botstore.automationanywhere.com/bot/java-fx-package Start Session The Start Session action enables developers to establish a sessio

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Meetup Recap: Working with Google Document AI in Automation 360 platform

Thanks to our guest speaker Sukhjinder Singh Virk for sharing his expertise with the developer community. During this virtual meetup, we discussed how to use Generic and Specialized parsers from Google Document AI service in the Automation 360 platform. Here is the recording of the session for your reference: Here are the reference files showcased during the session. Here is the link to create service account key. Conclusion: Google Cloud provides a group of AI-powered parsers that take documents in various formats and return cleanly structured data. Specialized solutions such as Lending DocAI, Procurement DocAI, and Contract DocAI are available from Google to solve industry-specific use cases related to data extraction which can assist you in building powerful integrations in Automation 360 bots. 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

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How to use Google Doc AI package in Automation 360 platform

The Google Doc AI Package enables organizations to extract text from a variety of image and document types using Google’s pre-trained document parsers. The package has a total of 3 actions – Connect, Extract, and Disconnect. The extracted document text is returned as an easy-to-read JSON with key-value data for each extracted field. JSON response received from the API can be parsed using the JSON package which has separate actions for returning a specific node value as well as returning a list of objects should your JSON contain an array. Use these sample PDF files (see attachment below) to try out the parsers discussed in the video. (GCP). You can use this link to create a service account key on GCP. To create a new processor on Google cloud platform, you can use this link . Conclusion Google Cloud Platform has both generic OCR capabilities and specific AI-powered parsers that take documents in various formats and return cleanly structured data. Specialized solutions such as Lending D

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Bot Games Season 2: What Bot Games Means to Me – Pradnya Mind

Bot Games is a great opportunity for both new and experienced users to learn and practice using Automation 360 more effectively. In this video, we hear from one of those community members – Pradnya Mind – on her experience with Bot Games and what it’s meant for her both personally and professionally. This video features Pradnya Mind, a Senior Cluster Manager (Program Manager-RPA) at Bajaj Finserv. She explains how she came across Bot Games for the first time and how she got started with it. She also highlights the positive influence that playing Bot Games has had on her professional life and the ways in which it has assisted her in her role as an RPA Developer, also making recommendations to those who are new to Bot Games. Don't forget to check developer.automationanywhere.com/botgames for more Bot Games content!

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Bot Games Season 2: What Bot Games Means to Me – Rafael Lima

Bot Games is a great opportunity for both new and experienced users to learn and practice using Automation 360 more effectively. In this video, we hear from one of those community members – Rafael Lima – on his journey as an RPA developer and how Bot Games helped him in his career. This video features Rafael Lima, an RPA Developer at Accenture. He's a Computer Science student and an Automation Anywhere Certified professional. He shares his career background and how he first became involved with RPA. In addition to this, he discusses the learning resources that he finds helpful, the part that Bot Games played in launching his professional career as an RPA developer, and some advice for others who are just getting started in the field. Don't forget to check our Developer Challenges for more Bot Games content!

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Community Article: Taking String Manipulation To the Next Level

This tutorial is a guest post from Ashwin A.K from Speridian Technologies - a global business and technology solutions provider. Speridian's business and technology experts help clients modernize their businesses through Digital Transformation. I bet everyone enjoyed participating in this year's Bot Games event. Many of you probably weren’t even aware of the Web Automation Package , until Bot Games. Please try it out, it's packed with incredibly versatile tools as you can see below. The exercises this year were really great this time around, so I decided to add an exercise of my own – which may intrigue some of you. The solution is also presented in this article, so I will let you know when to stop reading. Why would I want you to stop reading? Learning doesn’t happen through osmosis – it happens when you get your hands dirty with it. You didn’t learn to drive a car by simply watching someone else drive now, did you? I want you (yes YOU, don’t look away) to try this exercise on your ow

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Using the Cloud Migration Utility

Using the Cloud Migration Utility Let's be honest - migrating from one platform to another is always an experience of mixed feelings. On one side, the functionality, scalability, and flexibility of the new platform are exciting and will give a huge lift to your organization....not to mention all of the new capabilities. On the other side, the migration process itself doesn't spark joy in many people's day. In an effort to make the control room migration process as smooth as possible, Automation Anywhere has made available the Cloud Migration Utility - enabling users to migrate a full Automation Anywhere Enterprise v11 to Automation 360 Cloud in a matter of clicks. Cloud Migration Compatibility Before racing off to download the start using the Automation Anywhere Cloud Migration Utility, its important to check for its compatibility against your Automation Anywhere Enterprise v11 Control Room(s). The Cloud Migration Utility only works for supported Control Room Versions of Enterprise 11.

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Bot Games Season 2: Community Week: Bot Spotlight with Helison Deoclecio from Autoglass

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 their previous experience with Bot Games! Don't forget to check Developer Challenges for more Bot Games content!

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Join our Automation Anywhere Meetup Groups

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 Group Delhi Meetup Group Chennai Meetup Group Hyderabad Meetup Group Pune Meetup Group Singapore Meetup Group We want to make sure the content at our meetup groups effectively meets the needs of our audience. In that regard, please feel free to let us know the topics, concepts, and capabilities you’d like to see in upcoming meetings by sending an email to developer@automationanywhere.com Also, we are inviting RPA experts to come forward and share their expertise with the Developer community through these meetups. If you would like to deliver a session on the Automation 360 platform or if you have an idea

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Top 3 Benefits of Using an RPA Platform

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 developing bots in Automation 360 is following the organization's best practices, is storing their bots in a centralized place, and that ent

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What's new in Automation 360: v.23

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 about it as IQ Bot now fully supports all distinct types of tables for standard format documents when using MS Forms Recognizer models. RPA Worksp

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Inclusive Over Intrusive GrowthLearning Journey

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, change comes much less frequent

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IQBot Classifier: Train your machine learning model and optimize IDP

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 document so that IQ Bot can be trained on your documents. Example: Sample invoices from a collection of your different vendors, even when the structure isn't necessarily the same. Send that learning instance to production so that it can be invoked during bot executions. Run bots in production that consume that learning instance and make use of the extracted data. This process

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Meetup Recap: Working with XPath and Regular Expression in Automation 360

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 tables Regular 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 session. Reference sites to learn XPath and Regex: Ashwin's blog to learn more about XPath, Regex and Web Automation https://regex101.com/ https://selectorshub.com/xpath-practice-page/ Conclusion: While building RPA bots, knowledge of XPath can help you automate the interactions with web elements in a reliable manner. And when you are dealing with unstructured data, knowing how to work with regular expressions can assist you in performing data manipulations. To know about our upcoming

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Package Development: Returning a List

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 internal/proprietary applications and services - enabling bots to quickly automate arduous tasks within an organization, or could be used to create connections to 3rd party applications to enable bot builders to quickly make connections/operations with those applications. This capability of creating your own custom packages - paired with

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No Human Input RequiredAutomation Pathfinder Program

No human input required means that no “human in the loop” is required - once invoked, these automations are designed to execute without human involvement/intervention. Click the link below matching the Solution Pattern Model for your use case for details on an appropriate automation template/framework, as well as the specific least privilege roles needed for execution. How will your automation be executed? Unattended There are 4 Solution Patterns for running Unattended Automations: Run Remote on Demand Initiating an automation run directly from the Control Room ad-hoc to run on unattended runners. Run Remote via API Initiating an automation using the Control Room API to run on one or more unattended runners/devices Run Remote via API (Conversational) A ‘variation’ of ‘Run Remote via API’, this pattern involves invoking automation from an external “chatbot” The automation will be executed on one or more unattended runners/devices. Run Remote via Schedule An automation that is initiated/

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Predictions for RPA in 2022 and Beyond

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-wandering (surely the food stuff, yes), in the role of Developer Evangelism it's an important consideration... I want to make sure that I, as well as fellow RPA developers/enthusiasts, can be well prepared for what comes next, and be well equipped to take on the challenges that t

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How to Backup IQ Bot Learning Instances using API

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 to other Environments [UAT or Prod] once the training & testing is completed. Here’s a visual overview of everything in this workflow. Kindly note this article is applicable for Automation 360 (formerly Automation Anywhere Enterprise A201

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Setting Up and Using the Salesforce Connector Part III

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 Automation 360 connector (part 1) and configure the connector to interface with your Automation 360 Control Room (part 2). Setting Up and Using the Salesforce Connector Part III The Automation Anywhere RPA Bots for Salesforce app that's available on Salesforce's AppExchange enables organizations t

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IQ Bot: How to create a Custom Domain

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 fields of interest are unique to the use case Inbuilt/system domain doesn’t contain minimum required fields to aid document classification Inbuilt/system domain doesn’t have the required language listed for selection Here are the sample documents we need to complete this t

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