first bot using A2019

Creating Your First Bot Using A2019 (A360)

Before creating your first bot using A2019 (A360), let’s first install the Automation Anywhere Enterprise Community Edition, also known as A2019 (A360).

Introduction

Even before installing A2019 (A360), let’s check the benefits of A2019 (A360) platform offers for free:

  • It is a purely web-based interface that comes with drag-and-drop functionality for all users.
  • A platform with no-code, low-code, and bring-your-own-code options for building bots.
  • You can start developing bots instantly with step-by-step in-product learning.
  • As the platform is hosted on the cloud, leverage the cloud to access state-of-the-art enterprise-class technology.

If these points sound interesting and make sense to you, let’s begin installing A2019 (A360).

In case you want to know about RPA, you may refer to our in-depth article on Robotic Process Automation.

What is Robotic Process Automation?

Installing A2019 (A360)

Please head over to Automation Anywhere website and enter your details to get your instance for A2019 (A360) created.

Free A2019 Community Edition

 

Once you register, you will get an email with Control Room Url, username, and a default password (Which you can change) to access your A2019 (A360) cloud instance.

Accessing A2019 (A360)

After following the instructions given in the email and successfully logging into to A2019 (A360) instance, you will be able to see the Control Room home screen as shown below:

First bot using A2019

Creating First Bot Using A2019 (A360)

Now, click on Create a bot option to create your first bot using A2019 (A360).

Once you are done with entering Name and Description, click on Create & edit button to create your first Task Bot.

create first bot using A2019

The edit bot screen appears as shown below. This screen displays Action Commands, Triggers, Variables, Bot view – Flow, List, and Dual. Options to Run, Debug, Analyze, Close, and Save bot options.

Creating first bot using A2019

So, for our first bot, let’s display a message box on the screen. To proceed further click on search actions and type ‘message‘ to search for message box action.

Drag and Drop the message action between Start and End actions. Once you drop the message action, on the right side of the screen you would be able to see the Message box properties.

Please fill in the details as shown below and click apply and save this bot.

Adding message box in A2019

 

Now the bot is ready to be executed/run. When you click the Run button, the bot will try to build and execute. However, you will get a “Device is either disconnected or it needs to be upgraded” error as shown below:

Error while running a bot A2019

We will explain in detail How to get rid of this error? and run your first bot in A2019 (A360) successfully.

[Solved] Device is either disconnected or it needs to be upgraded Error

In order to solve this error, navigate to the My Devices tab and click on add local bot agent option. After that click on Connect to my computer as shown below:

Add local bot agent

Post that, follow all the 3 steps – Install bot agent, Enable Automation Anywhere Extension, and then Connect your computer.

3 step to connect computer 2019

Once the device is connected you will be able to Run the Bot without any error and your “Device is either disconnected or it needs to be upgraded error” will be solved.

Device Connected 2019

Once your device shows connected, head over to BOTS section and click on My bots. Then on the right-hand side of the screen, click on the bot you have created. For us, it is FirstBot as shown in the below screenshot.

Running a bot A2019

Click on the Run button in order to run your first bot in A2019 as shown below. You will get the message popup window with the message configured at the time of creating a bot. “First bot using A2019 – RPAFeed

first bot using A2019

You may now close this popup and you will see a success message – Your bot has run successfully!

first bot run successful A2019

Congratulations 👏 you have now run your first A2019 (A360) bot successfully.

Conclusion

Let’s now conclude this article with the learning of creating and running a bot in A2019 (A360).

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