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Extracting Tables That Aren’t Tables: A Smarter Approach
If you’ve been following my previous posts, you would have realized that although the process delivers results, it delivers them after a considerable amount of time. Not only is the execution time lengthy, there is a level of complexity which is unavoidable, since we have to study the HTML structure first, then test out various…
AA: Extracting Tables That Aren’t Tables(Part-II)
In our last post, we were able to successfully extract data from each column. Today we will outline the logic for looping through each line item in the web table, extracting its contents, and storing it in proper format. Simply put, we will extract the table as it is, even though the HTML structure isn’t…
AA: Extracting Tables That Aren’t Tables(Part-I)
In the vast uncharted waters of the Internet, there exists a special breed of web tables which possess all characteristics of a table, except that it stem from different ancestral HTML roots. Automation Anywhere recognizes them, but records them under a CLIENT control, and it pisses the living daylights out of me whenever that happens….
Windows Can Be Variables Too?
Short answer: Yes. Long answer: This article. Variables, and Why We Need Them When manipulating data, it makes sense to organize that data into individual containers with labels. This makes it easier to identify the data while also speeding things up as memory allocation happens according to the “container” it is assigned to. Data isn’t…
AA: Scraping Data Off The Bot Store (Part-III)
Congratulations, you have made it to the last installation of our data scraping series! In this installation, we will add in a couple of enhancements that will convert our data scraper into a user friendly automation. Attended Automation is What It’s Called Although most businesses prefer to have their automations unattended, there are times however,…
AA: Scraping Data Off The Bot Store (Part-II)
In last week’s post, we developed the navigation…well most of it. Where Did We Go Wrong This Time? Nowhere. We are on the right track and only have to include one more condition into the Loop: While Action, to ensure it works as expected. I didn’t include this in the previous post as it breached the…
AA: Scraping Data Off The Bot Store (Part-I)
Automation Anywhere at its core consists of a series of scripts bundled up into click and drag Actions, which is bundled up even further into Packages and finally bundled up into an end to end SaaS called Automation 360. And that’s not all. With a little bit of Java, you too can create your own…
AA: Minimize The Task Window With This
When we run automations with Automation 360, a task window pops up, indicating the progress of our automation. It is useful as it not only tells us at which stage the bot is currently at, but also provides us with the option of pausing or stopping the automation, in case something goes wrong. Of course,…
AA: Finding Last File in Folder
If you wish to skip past my rambling, click here. Automation often involves directory management, which is a fancy way of saying “Arrange data into respective storage units/bins” which is also a fancy way of saying “Store data appropriately”. Storing excel workbooks in folders is one such example of directory management, but that is too simplistic….
AA: “Log To File” Done Right
In an earlier post, we explored Automation Anywhere’ s error handling capabilities. Today, we are going to dig a little deeper and refine our Error Handling Process. You May Log Errors in One of Two Ways One is by haphazardly outputting everything onto notepad, while the other is by outputting details into the right file, in uniform…