Welcome to your one-stop hub for this month’s key Pathfinder Community news and featured events, content, forums, and more!
Community Stories
Never miss a beat—here are your can’t-miss updates from the Pathfinder Community this month:
Bot Games is Back! Join us for the Season of Giving Edition
We’ve partnered up with United Way Bay Area to bring you a new challenge starting December 11. The best part: for every challenge completion, we’ll be donating to United Way Bay Area. Get more details in our blog post.
AI Activation Area
Let’s put AI to work! Here are our latest featured resources to help you integrate AI into your automation workflow:
- Automation Anywhere + Amazon Web Services: Supercharging AI-Powered Automation, Responsibly
- All About Solution Packs: What Are They & Why Should I Care?
- Level Up Your Customer Service with Automation + Gen AI with our free Solution Pack
Stellar Contributor Spotlight
Each month we’re shining a light on a stellar member whose recent contributions are truly making a big impact in our community-driven ecosystem.
Abhay Naik
Technical Lead | Tangentia Inc.
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Abhay has consistently made outstanding contributions to our community, providing invaluable assistance to those seeking guidance on data extraction from Excel and helping individuals navigate the initiation process with Community Edition. We express our sincere gratitude for the effort invested. Thank you, Abhay!
Highlighted Contributions:
Extract Date from Multiple Excel Files
How can I resolve issue, “Cannot delete device ..“
Installation of Community Edition
Meet Your MVPs
MM]ost uV]aluable rP]athfinders are a cohort of dynamic leaders and skilled practitioners igniting a groundswell within the field of automation. You may recognize our MVPs from their contributions within the Pathfinder community, but in case you don’t, we’d like to take a moment to officially acquaint you. Here are this month’s featured MVP profiles:
Meet MVP Vishal Ghume, Senior Automation Developer at Jaguar Land Rover
Meet MVP Kyle Smith, Associate Director of Business Intelligence at Humana
Meet MVP Adam Favreau, Associate Director, HR Technology at Boston Scientific
Can’t Miss Events
We know you’ve got a lot on your plate. If you can make time for some of our valuable events this month, these are the ones you won’t want to miss!
- December 11-14: Bot Games: Season of Giving Edition
- December 13: Product Club December Meeting: Gen AI + Document Automation
- December 14: Put AI to Work Responsibly with Intelligent Automation
Join the Conversation
Our Pathfinder community is grounded by the diverse shared expertise of our members. Here are current discussion topics that could benefit from your own wisdom and first-hand experience.
- Featured Discussion
- Share Your Expertise
- What are the recommended best practices for programmatically determining elapsed time in Automation Anywhere using Datetime packages?
- Has anyone discovered a native solution for creating subfolder structures in Automation Anywhere using the Email package, especially when checking and moving emails from a shared mailbox?
Critical Tools for Mission Success
Keep your automation skills sharp and tool belt fully calibrated—here are critical tools and continued learning resources for ongoing automation mission success:
Academy: Career Quests & Skill Boosters
New Automation Leader courses:
- Establishing a Program Delivery Model
- Intro to the Promotion and Engagement Pillar at the Start Phase
- Introducing Program Operations
New Pro Developer courses:
- Using Generative AI in Automation Anywhere
- Getting Started with the Credential Vault
- Getting Started with SQL
- Accelerating with SQL
- Getting Started with Bot Lifecycle Management
- Digging Deeper with the Browser Package - Running JavaScript