An updated version of this course is available. For more information, click Automating Tasks Using IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere (ZB502G).

This course is also available as classroom course Automating Tasks Using IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere (WB501G).

This course is intended to teach the skills that are needed to work with the IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere Enterprise Client and Control Room to develop and manage bots.

For information about other related courses, see the IBM Training website:

ibm.com/training

If you are enrolling in a Self Paced Virtual Classroom or Web Based Training course, before you enroll, please review the Self-Paced Virtual Classes and Web-Based Training Classes on our Terms and Conditions page, as well as the system requirements, to ensure that your system meets the minimum requirements for this course. http://www.ibm.com/training/terms

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe the IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere Control Room and Enterprise Client
• Work with the various Enterprise Client Recorders and commands to create and manage bots

This course is intended for developers who use IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

• Practical knowledge of data structures
• Understanding of SQL syntax
• Basic understanding of web services
• Experience with modern programming techniques

Course introduction
Introducing robotic process automation and bots
Introducing IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere
Exercise: Exploring the Control Room
Introducing the Enterprise Client
Exercise: Creating a basic bot
Working with variables, loops, and strings
Exercise: Writing data from a text file to an Excel spreadsheet
Working with the Smart Recorder and the Object Cloning command
Exercise: Automating data entry to a business application and a database
Working with emails, conditional logic, and triggers
Exercise: Creating a bot to sum check declines, query a database, and send an email
Working with email and PDFs
Exercise: Creating a bot to evaluate data from a PDF and send an email
Creating interactive bots
Exercise: Creating an interactive bot to check values in disparate systems
Introducing MetaBots
Exercise: Creating a login MetaBot
Working with web services
Exceptions and error handling
Exercise: Working with web services and error handling
Hardening bots against exceptions
Exercise: Hardening the Account Opening bot
Bot management and reporting
Exercise: Managing bots
Administering bots through the Control Room
Exercise: Administering bots in the Control Room
Course summary

Prior to enrolling, IBM Employees must follow their Division/Department processes to obtain approval to attend this public training class. Failure to follow Division/Department approval processes may result in the IBM Employee being personally responsible for the class charges.

GBS practitioners that use the EViTA system for requesting external training should use that same process for this course. Go to the EViTA site to start this process:

http://w3.ibm.com/services/gbs/evita/BCSVTEnrl.nsf

Once you enroll in a GTP class, you will receive a confirmation letter that should show:

• The current GTP list price
• The 20% discounted price available to IBMers. This is the price you will be invoiced for the class.