Bot Creator Interface and Analyze command

RPA | Bot Creator Interface & Analyze Command | Automation Anywhere - Part-4



A Bot Creator interface provides us to create, Edit and run the bots. To get started with the Bot Creator we need to have the following requirements/permissions which are as mentioned below:

1) UserName 
2) Password 
3) Business Email ID
4) Bot Creator License
5) AAE Basic Role

Let's see how a Bot Creator interface looks like 

From the looks of it, it appears as if it is a control room but it's not a control room instead it's a bot creator interface. To identify whether it's a bot creator interface or control room interface is that when you login using Bot Creator credentials you will see the "Create a Bot" Link as highlighted and you will not find this link when you login with your control room credentials.

There are two ways through which we can create bots.

1) After login to control room using Bot Creator credentials you will see "Create a bot" button. By clicking on the button you will be asked to enter the bot name and after giving the bot name hit enter and you will be redirected to the Bot creating window where you can create bots.

2) Second way through which you can create bot is by going to Bots-> My Bots->Create a bot button as shown below in the highlighted part.

Let's take a look at how the Bot Creator window looks like.

There are three ways in which we can create/view our bots. These are as follows:-

1) Flow Mode - In this mode the user can see the commands being built in a diagrammatic manner or you can say in a flowchart manner as shown in the below diagram.

2)  List Mode - In this mode user can view the commands in a sequential manner or in a step by step manner. Attached is the screenshot for the same.

3) Dual Mode - In this mode you can view the commands in both flow as well as List mode i.e. in flowchart view as well as sequential steps side by side.

Now let's take a look at each of the commands that are provided by Automation Anywhere in detail one by one. So in this section we will take a look at Analyze command and what is it used for.

Analyze command is used to analyze the variables which are tagged for analysis during the execution of the program. This command is particularly used to create Bot Insight Dashboards i.e. Operational & Business Dashboard.

Now let's take a look at the steps that we have used to build a dashboard using the Analyze command.

1) Drag and Drop
2) Drag and Drop Analyze Open command.
3) Place CSV/TXT command and under it select "Open" command to open the CSV file. Check the Contains Header checkbox and keep the delimiter as comma.
4) Now place
5) Use
6) Then

Here is the screenshot of the Analyze command code we created:-