Aktionen to build Bots

Use Aktionen to build an automation workflow and to instruct a Bot what to do. The available Aktionen are located in the Aktionen palette of the Bot Editor in the Control Room.

Aktionen, Pakete, and dependencies

Aktionen are grouped into Pakete based on the technology they automate. For example, the Excel Advanced Paket contains Excel-related Aktionen, such as Open workbook, Go to cell, and Delete cell, which you can insert in the Bot Editor to automate a spreadsheet process.

Each Paket is updated and enabled individually to support new functionality. New Bots are built with the default version. Existing Bots are not automatically updated. They run using the same Paket version that they were built with until the Bot Creator manually updates to the new version.

When the Control Room deploys a Bot, the Pakete used to create the automation are collected and sent to the Bot-Agent on the destination device. The Bot-Agent caches the Pakete so that it does not require updates each time the Bot runs.

To shorten the runtime the first time a Bot runs on a device, preload the Pakete using the Preload packages option in the Bot Editor. The system loads the Pakete to \ProgramData\AutomationAnywhere\GlobalCache on the local machine for quick access at runtime.

After an Aktion from a Paket is used in a Bot, that Paket becomes a dependent file of that Bot.

Learn more about managing Pakete in Pakete.
Developers can learn more about creating packages in Paket-SDK.
Learn more about managing Bots and Paket dependencies in Bot-Abhängigkeiten.

Packages and exe files


Pakete	exe process files
DLL	Automation.CSharpDLLWrapper.exe
Database	Automation.DatabasePlayer.exe

Working with Aktionen

Wichtig: Each Aktion in a Paket provides minimum compatible Control Room and Bot-Agent version information when you create Bots. So you can update your Bots and reduce runtime errors caused by an incompatible Control Room or Bot-Agent version.

You can configure Aktionen in the Bot Editor. Double-click the Aktion to view the fields and features that you can configure, and double-click or drag an Aktion to insert it into the automation.

Move the mouse over the vertical ellipsis at the top right of an Aktion icon to access the following features:

Copy Aktion: Duplicate the Aktion.
Cut Aktion: Copy the Aktion and remove it from the Bot code.
Paste after Aktion: Paste the copied Aktion below the selected Aktion.; Anmerkung: This option only appears when there is an Aktion in the clipboard.
Delete Aktion: Remove the Aktion from the Bot code.
Disable Aktion: At run time, Bot ignores the Aktion until you enable it.
Enable breakpoint: Pauses the Bot for debugging purposes.; Automatisierungen debuggen
Step over: Use the Step over icon to go to the next action in debug mode. By default, it starts from the first action in debug mode.

You can edit multiple Aktionen at a time, using the toolbar at the top of the Bot Editor.

Find in this Bot (Search box)

Search for any text or Aktion such as a Paket name, Aktionen name, string name, or variable name in the Flow, List, or Dual view of the TaskBot. You can search text across multiple pages of the Bot and do not require the pages to be loaded manually. This feature is useful for viewing or editing a Bot with longer code lines to determine where the searched text, such as variables, strings, or Aktionen is used and in which line.

You can search only within the lines of the code in the Bot Editor.
The search is not case-sensitive.

Copy items

Copy Aktionen to a clipboard so they can be duplicated within the Bot.

Cut items

Copy the Aktionen and remove them from the Bot code.

Paste items

Paste one or more Aktionen after the highlighted Aktion. If you have not highlighted an Aktion, the Aktionen are appended to the end of the automation sequence.

Anmerkung: This icon is only enabled when there are Aktionen in the clipboard.

Copy to shared clipboard

Copy Aktionen, triggers, and metadata to a clipboard that is shared between Bots.

Paste from shared clipboard

Paste Aktionen, triggers, and metadata from another Bot.

Anmerkung: This icon is only enabled when there are Aktionen in the shared clipboard.

Anmerkung: The Copy to shared clipboard and Paste from shared clipboard options are enabled only for users with Bot Creator privileges.

The Copy to shared clipboard option is not displayed if the Bot is in Debug mode and you have selected only one line of code. However, this option appears when you select multiple lines of a code.

Auto-save functionality of events in Bot Editor

In the Bot Editor, when you use Aktionen to build an automation, when a Bot is not manually saved, an auto-save is performed and the Bot now automatically saves the changes for specific events.

Anmerkung: The auto-save functionality is currently available only for specific events.

Some of the events that support auto-save functionality are as follows:

Recorder: When you create a Bot with certain Aktionen and click Recorder, the event is saved, and when the recording is complete, the event is automatically saved.
Variable manager: When you create or edit a variable to insert it in an Aktion, the changes are saved.
Anmerkung: The auto-save functionality is not supported when you delete a variable or insert it by pressing F2 to open the variable list.
Actions menu (vertical ellipsis): When you select any Aktion from this menu, for example Packages, the event is saved automatically. When you make any change to the Packages page and return to the Bot Editor, the event is saved.
Find a file: When you click the Find a file icon, the Bot is saved if it is not manually saved. Also, after you click the Add option, the Bot is automatically saved.
Dialog boxes: When a dialog box is opened, it is automatically saved if any changes are made.
Anmerkung: Auto-save is triggered only for top-level dialog boxes and not for nested dialog boxes.
Deleting variables: When you delete unused variables, the event is saved.
Bot name change: If you edit the name of a Bot, the event is saved.

Resources

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