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Reading Data From Microsoft-Excel using Automation Anywhere

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Automation Anywhere Enterprise, caters to organizations that are looking to deploy a digital workforce composed of software bots that complete business processes end-to-end. Automation Anywhere Enterprise combines traditional Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with cognitive elements such as natural language processing and reading unstructured data.

Procedure

Step 1: Log in to automation anywhere community edition using this link

Step 2: From the home page click on Create a bot and in the pop-up name the bot as Reading Data from Excel and click on Create and Edit

Step 3: Now you could see the labels as Variables, Actions, Triggers as a drop-down menu. Click on Actions

Step 4: Notice that all the actions available under this label are alphabetically ordered. Explore them and click on Excel advanced and drag Open option as shown in the picture below.

Excel Advanced Excel Advanced

Step 5: Set the session name as Session 1 (remember the session name as we have to use the same name later). Under the File path click on Desktop File and select an excel file from your pc and check the ‘specify sheet name’ and provide sheet name(Sheet1) correctly and click on apply at the right corner of the dialogue box. 

Step 6: Search for Loop option in actions and drag it such that it is placed under Excel advanced: Open option, after performing this step flow should look like the picture below. 

Loop Option

  • Click on loop option to edit and under iterator click on excel advanced ->For each row in the worksheet
  • Set the session name as Session 1(same name as in step-1)
  • Under loop through the set the value as all rows
  • Under Assign the current value to this variable click on the icon as shown below
  • After clicking on the icon as shown, set the name as Record and click on create & select, now click on Apply.

Step 7: Search for message box in actions and place in under the loop box only, now click on the message box to edit, under Enter the message to display click on the icon as shown below. 
 

Message Box

  • After clicking on an icon, from the drop-down menu of variables under user-defined select Record – Record and specify the index number to get the data and click on Yes, insert.
  • Repeat the process to get the multiple indexed(column-wise in excel) values and click on apply.
    • Click on Excel advanced: Close and edit the session name as Session 1 (same as in previous steps) and click on apply.
    • Click on save on top right corner to save our entire session and click on run to run our bot.

Last Updated : 02 Oct, 2022
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