Automation Anywhere Metabot Basic and Other

Automation Anywhere Metabot Basic and Other

Automation Anywhere

Question: What are the purpose to use Metabot?

Answer:

• Shrink Deployment Time
• Reduces Operational Costs
• Amplifies ROI from RPA

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Question: What Metabot designer consists?

Answer:

• Visual Capture (Screen captures)
• Application APIs (DLLs)
• Navigational Flow (Logic)

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Question: Views available in Metabot workspace?

Answer: There are two types of views available in Metabot workspace:

• Assets – consists of visual captures, Application APIs and Folder.
• Logic – navigational flow that is developed based on the available assets (visual capture or application DLLs or Both).

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Question: What is Metabot?

Answer: A MetaBot is an automation blueprint of an application that can be re-used to optimize processes. MetaBot enable you to create automation building blocks that capture information in the form of visuals or application APIs. These can thereon be integrated as commands.

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Question: Which view is used to capture multiple screens of the webpage on one go in Metabot Designer?

Answer: Assets view.

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Question: When using a Metabot to automate a process that multiple Tasks use, updating the function of the Metabot will…

Answer: Update the functionality for all the Tasks.

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Question: Which view displays captured application screen shots and allows screen shots to be recorded in Metabot Designer?

Answer: Assets view.

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Question: Which option allows a Metabot to access an external library of functions?

Answer: Add DLL.

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Question: Metabot screen shots can be captured using which two commands?

Answer: Add screen and Record Screens.

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Question: What is Auto Login?

Answer: Some of the bots executed when the system is logged off. Allows to run the task even system is locked or logged off.

Steps to enable Auto-Login option - Tools->Options->Auto Login Settings

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Question: How to read the Notepad Data/String Data?

Answer: By using ‘Read from CSV/Text’ Command

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Question: Difference between Schedule and Trigger?

Answer: 

Schedule – We can configure to run a bot on specific date & time. 

Trigger – We can configure to run a bot on some specific action like Window, File, Folder, Email, Performance, Service, and Process.

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Question: What are the System Variables available in Automation Anywhere?

Answer:

Date/Time

• Year - Return system Year.
• Month - Return system Month.
• Day - Return system Day.
• Date - Return system Date.
• Hour - Return system Hour.
• Minute - Return System Minute.
• Second - Return System Second.
• Millisecond - Return System Millisecond.

Loop

• Counter - Return current count value.
• FileName - Use in Loop for each file in a folder command. Returns file name.
• FolderName - Use in Loop for each folder in a folder command. Returns folder name.
• CurrentDirectory - Use in Loop for each File/Folder in a Folder command. Returns path of folder.
• Extension - Use in Loop for each file in a folder command. Returns file extension.
• Dataset Column - Use in Loop for each record in dataset. Returns single record of datasource.
• Table Column - Use in Loop for each row in a Table. Returns single row of Table.
• Excel Column - Use in Loop for each row in Excel. Returns single row of excel.
• Error Line Number - Automation Anywhere task error line number.
• Error Description - Automation Anywhere task error line description.
• Filedata Column - Use in Loop for each record in CSV/Text file. Returns single node of File.
• XML Data Node - Use in Loop for each node in XML file. Returns single node of File.

Excel

• Excel Cell - Use when 'Contains Header' option is enabled. It indicates the column name and position of the cell from the header.
• Excel Cell Column - Returns the column of the Excel on which the operation has been performed.
• Excel Cell Row - Returns the row of the Excel on which the operation has been performed.

Email

• Email From - Use in Loop for each email in server. Returns email From address.
• Email To - Use in Loop for each email in server. Returns email To address.
• Email Cc - Use in Loop for each email in server. Returns email Cc address.
• Email Subject - Use in Loop for each email in server. Returns email Subject.
• Email Message - Use in Loop for each email in server. Returns email Content.
• Email Received Date - Use in Loop for each email in server. Returns email Received Date.
• Email Received Time - Use in Loop for each email in server. Returns email Received Time.

Trigger

• Trigger Value - Returns Name of File/Folder/Window for which a trigger is fired.

PDF

• PDFFileName - Returns PDF file name for given file without .pdf extension.
• PDFTitle - Returns PDF title for given file.
• PDFAuthor - Returns PDF author name for given file.
• PDFSubject - Returns PDF subject for given file.

System

• Machine - Returns Machine Name.
• Clipboard- Returns Clipboard text data.
• AAApplicationPath - Returns Product Application Path.
• AAInstallationPath - Returns Product Installation Path.
• AATaskName - Returns complete path and name of the task being executed.
• AAControlRoom - Returns URL of the connected Control Room.
• CPUUsage - Returns percentage CPU usage.
• RAMUsage - Returns RAM usage in MB.
• TotalRAM - Returns total amount of RAM in MB.
• OSName - Returns actual Operating System Name.
• ArrayRows - Returns number of rows of selected array variable.
• ArrayColumns - Returns number of columns of selected array variable.
• System - Name = { "PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432", "COMPUTERNAME", "UATDATA", "CommonProgramFiles(x86)", "HOMEPATH", "TMP", "PROCESSOR_REVISION", "PATHEXT", "USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE", "TEMP", "LOCALAPPDATA", "PUBLIC", "CLIENTNAME", "USERDNSDOMAIN", "USERDOMAIN", "ProgramFiles(x86)", "Path", "PROCESSOR_LEVEL", "PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER", "windows_tracing_flags", "PSModulePath", "NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS", "CommonProgramFiles", "ProgramData", "ProgramW6432", "ProgramFiles", "FP_NO_HOST_CHECK", "SystemRoot", "SESSIONNAME", "CommonProgramW6432", "LOGONSERVER", "USERPROFILE", "APPDATA", "HOMEDRIVE", "windows_tracing_logfile", "USERNAME", "PCOMM_Root", "PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE", "OS", "ComSpec", "SystemDrive", "windir", "ALLUSERSPROFILE" }

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Question: Can we add a new Excel sheet using AA Excel command?

Answer: No.

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Question: How to call Metabot in Task Editor?

Answer: Just drag and drop Metabot from the list. If any variable used in Metabot, then it will prompt a window to map the variable.

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Question: Difference between Click and Left Click?

Answer: When we use Click, then it will click on link/button/image without move the mouse’s cursor on it.

Answer: When we use Left Click, First of all mouse’s cursor move to the object then click it.

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Question: What is the difference between Insert mouse click and a mouse click entered by object cloning?

Answer: Insert mouse click relies on X+Y coordinates, whereas object cloning uses the object ID of the object and can be anywhere on the page, it will also continue to work if the object moves on the page.

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