Category Archives: Automation Anywhere
Pivot Tables Without the Pivot “Table” (Part-II)
If you haven’t read Part-I then I will come and haunt you in your dreams. . . . Now that we have our XML ready, we can mimic pivot table behavior with it. Well, Kinda. Pivot tables are easy to customize, whereas what I’m about to show you right now is not nearly as customizable…
Pivot Tables Without the “Pivot Table” (Part-I)
While Automation Anywhere is fantastic at Excel Automation, there are instances where it falls short but it’s not due to negligence. It isn’t practical to develop Actions or Commands for every conceivable operation, because maintaining that would be a nightmare, let along developing them which is why I believe it’s important for RPA Developers to…
AA: Show XML Some Love
While HTML displays data on the web, XML stores and transfers data. Sure, there is a lot more to it than that, but its better to keep things short and simple so that people can follow along and won’t ask any difficult questions. Ok I’ll be honest, I’m not really that good at XML. Every…
AA: RPA Comes in Various Shapes, Sizes and Customization Forms (Part – III)
Now that you have learnt how to create forms, or at least know “what” Interactive Forms are, it’s time to make those Forms Interactive. Sure, the rules make it interactive, but it doesn’t bring it to life. You need a bot to breathe life into is so that it may receive/provide inputs. Remember, the Form…
AA: RPA Comes in Various Shapes, Sizes and Customizable Forms (Part-II)
Last time, we learnt how to create and customize forms, and today, we will learn how to add rules to our forms. Why add rules? Because RPA is rule-based (get it?). No but seriously, why bother adding rules? I Need an Answer If you’ve explored forms before, then you’d have noticed that there are validations…
AA: RPA Comes in Various Shapes, Sizes and Customizable Forms(Part-I)
RPA is composed of scripts bundled up into click and drag automation blocks with which we can develop automations in less time than it would take a Python or JavaScript developer to develop, which is why it has captured the market like wildfire. Automation is automation, but because its automation, people aren’t too comfortable working…
Web Automation: Five Tips To Keep You Invested
Welcome, again. We are going to explore the Web Automation Package, again. Why “Again”? Because I failed to address the topic properly last time. I got distracted (no surprise there) and rambled on about my department hopping journey. Storytime is supposed to be short and sweet, not long and salty. Web Automation Package, Revisited I…
Excel as a Database: What Else Can I Do With It?
When you are tasked with building bots which will process really large spreadsheets, what would you do? Would you use the Excel Action Package and wait for the bot to loop through each record? Or would you dump that task onto the junior developers and guilt trip them for not taking this as a “learning…
AA: How Are Your Bots Doing?
If this is the first article you’re reading on my blog, then you’re probably confused. If you are new to RPA, then welcome aboard the Automation Spaceship! You might want to go through the first two articles in my 5-Star Developer Series before we active hyperdrive and blast off to infinity. Why Perform Analytics on…
Web Automation Finally has Its Own Package!
Actually, I’m a little late to the party because the Web Automation Family had moved into their new apartment months back. You Mean To Say We Couldn’t Automate Websites Earlier? No, no, we could automate websites alright, we just didn’t have a set of Actions specifically built for Web Automation. Earlier, we had to rely…