Curriculum

1 RPA Concepts
Learning Objectives:

• What is Robotic Process Automation
• Natural Language Processing and RPA
• How Robotic Process Automation Works!
• Why to Automate repetitive Tasks/Process
• RPA Solution Architecture Patterns – Key Considerations
• Input Data Handling Solution Pattern
• Exception Handling
• Transaction Logging
• Credential Management
• Secure Execution
• RPA Planning, Monitoring and Reporting
• List of Robotic Process Automation Tools
• Robotic Process Automation Tool Selection Checklist
• RPA Best Practices
• RPA Life Cycle
• Time Frame of RPA Process
• Identification of RPA Areas
• Concept of ROI (Return on Investment)

Hands-on Description:

• Rename All Files In A Folder
• Task Description
• Loop through all the files in the selected folder and rename files with .xls extension by prefixing it with today’s date.

2 Automation Anywhere Control Room
Learning Objectives:

• Control Room Dashboard
• User Management (Creation of User for Automation Anywhere Client)
• Scheduling Bots in Control Room
• Trigger Bots in Control Room
• Creation of Hot Key
• Credential Management
• User Rights for AA Client
• License Management
• Disaster Management in Automation Anywhere.

Hands-on Description:

a) Scrape Tabular Data From Web
Scrape the tabular data from the web and transfer it to your own application.

b) Transfer Data From Excel To Any Application
Transfer data from Excel to any application. Pre-requisites: Before you run this task, your Excel file and the destination application, both should be open.

c) Transfer Data From Access To Excel Using Excel Integration
Transfers product data from Access to Excel using Excel Integration.

3 Automation Anywhere Metabots
Learning Objectives:

• Creation of Metabots
• Use of DLL in Metabots
• Calibration
• UI Automation with Metabots
• Variables in Metabots

Hands-on Description:

• Using Application Integration To Integrate Terminal Emulator Program
• Often businesses need to get data from application windows that have no way of getting data. For such cases, Automation Anywhere features App Integration. This task checks if a user has logged in successfully to a FTP server using Putty. It captures data from Putty application window and checks for the string logged in to ensure the user is logged in successfully.

4 Automation Anywhere Client
Learning Objectives:

• Creation & Usage of User defined variables
• Usage of system defined variables
• WorkFlow of RPA Process
• Creation of WorkFlow
• Execution of WorkFlow
• Validation of WorkFlow
• Usage of Repository
• Report Generation of bots
• Scheduler Manager in AA Client
• Trigger Manager in AA Client
• Hot Keys in AA Client
• Notification and Speed of Task Bots
• Exception/Error Handling in Bots
• Automation of Database Process
• Logs Handling in Bots
• Email Automation Process
• FTP/SFTP Automation
• Image Recognition Command
• WebRecorder Command
• Fetching Regular Based Data
• Fetching Pattern Based Data
• Object Cloning
• MS – Excel Automation Commands
• Static and Dynamic Delays in Automation Anywhere
• Files & Folder Automation Commands
• Loop Implementation in Automation Process For
• Excel Dataset
• Internet Explorer Table
• SQL Query Dataset
• XML Dataset
• CSV File Dataset
• Variable Operation Commands
• String Operation Commands
• Execution of Sub Task in Main Bots
• Screen & Visualize Capture Command
• Automation of Web Services & Rest Web Service
• Mouse and Keyboard action automation
• User Input Automation Command
• XML Automation Process
• Debugging of Task Bots
• Security Implementation through Automation Process
• PDF Automation Process
• Automation of Windows Controls
• Web Browser Activities Automation
• Hands-on Description:

a) Using OCR To Integrate With Command Line FTP
Web and Desktop applications are filled with images that need to be converted to a readable text for certain actions to be performed. OCR technology is used to do just that. The task below logs into FTP server via DOS and waits to check if logged in successfully. It uses OCR technology to retrieve information from Command Prompt in to readable text to check whether login was successful.

b) Terminal Emulator Automation-Checking For Malware In Remote Machine
This task shows you how using Automation Anywhere, you can easily automate any type of Terminal Emulator. This example looks at the programs on the remote machine that are making connections with the outside world, and check if any unexpected program or malware is present in the list.

c) Test And Validate Online Shopping Cart Functionality
Online shopping cart is arguably the most important part of an E-Commerce site. Testing shopping cart is essential to the success of any E-commerce site. This task shows how you can test online shopping cart.

d) Send An Email To A List Of Contacts
Send an Email (e.g. a Marketing email or newsletter) to a list of contacts.

e) Scrape Tabular Data From Web And Transfer It To Excel
Scrape the tabular data from the web and transfer it to Excel.

f) Extract Restaurant Data From A Website
Let’s say you are in a restaurant business and you want to regularly find out all the restaurant businesses in your area.