No programming required. 4 easy options to create any task in just minutes.

1. Use SMART Task Recorder
2. Use pre-defined automation templates
3. Use task editor with point & click wizard
4. Use Web Recorder for web automation
   
   

Powered by our unique SMART Automation Technology^TM: Task re-plays automatically adjust to more than 40 changes between record and play conditions giving you trouble free re-plays. For e.g.:

• Window position or size change
• If desktop icons or start menu items have moved
• Task bar or dialog box location change
• Internet connection is slower of faster
• Computer CPU load
  ...and many more
  

This eliminates the need to write “infrastructure code”. It allows you to focus on your business logic and automate 10 times faster than other automation software.

Scheduling capability to run tasks at pre-defined times. Automation Anywhere offers many scheduling options. You can schedule

• Daily (every day or only weekdays or every 2 days for example)
• Weekly (certain days of the week, for example every Monday)
• Monthly (certain day of month, for example 1st January & 5th& October)
• One time only
• When computer starts
• When you logon
• When computer is idle

You can also schedule a task multiple times.

Edit recorded tasks or create new tasks with point & click action wizards. No programming required. More than 250 powerful actions to choose from like

• Keyboard & Mouse actions

• Files/Folder actions
• Windows actions
• Conditional actions
• Loop actions
• Internet actions
• Database actions
• Clipboard actions
  ...and many more.

Secure Auto login capability allows scheduled tasks to run even when computer is locked. Automation Anywhere provides this powerful feature to Auto Login and Auto Lock for maximum security.

When you enable Auto Login, and any scheduled task runs, Automation Anywhere will unlock the computer if it is locked and start executing your task. Once the task completes, it will lock the computer again. This eliminates the need to keep your computer unlocked for task execution.

• Secure auto-login –schedule a task to run at a later time, then lock the computer and go home. At the scheduled time, Automation Anywhere will automatically log in, run the task, and lock the computer again.
• Secure your tasks by providing passwords which are encrypted using strong industry encryption. Prompt and verify passwords while
1. Executing a task
2. Editing a task

Variables let you run the same task again & again with different values, without changing the task. Two different types of variables are supported.

1. System variables: These are pre-defined variables like date, clipboard, etc.
2. User variables: These are variables that you can define as per your need.

Three different types of user variables are supported.

• Value (Single Value)
• List (Multiple Values)
• Random (Random Value)

For the above three types of user variables, you can select either values or read from text file.

Auto response capability can trigger a task in response to many events. You can define which task to trigger for which event. Automation Anywhere supports six types of triggers.

1. Window
2. File
3. Folder
4. Performance
5. Process
6. Service
7. Email Message

1. Window Trigger: Two types of actions are supported in Window trigger.
   • When window opens
   • When window closes
2. File Trigger: Three types of actions are supported in File trigger.
   • When file is created
   • When file is deleted
   • When file is renamed
3. Folder Trigger: Six different types of folder triggers are supported.
   • When any file is created in that folder
   • When any file is deleted in that folder
   • When any file is renamed in that folder
   • When folder is created
   • When folder is deleted
   • When folder is renamed
4. Performance Trigger: Three different types of performance triggers are supported.
   • CPU Usage
   • Free disk space
   • Process count
5. Process Trigger: You can have two types of triggers for each executable running on your computer.
   • When process starts
   • When process stops
6. Service Trigger: You can have four types of triggers for each service installed on your computer.
   • When service starts
   • When service stops
   • When service resumes
   • When service pauses

Email notification allows you to send status mail when task finishes. You can define content of the status email. Default email template contains:

1. Task Name
2. Task Description
3. Repeat
4. Task Status
5. Last Run Time

• With Excel integration you can Create Spreadsheet, Open Spreadsheet, Close Spreadsheet, Get Cells, Set Cell, Goto Cell, Run Excel Macro within the task and even Delete Cells.
• Sessions allow you to work with multiple spreadsheets.

Automation Anywhere offers a Web recorder that understands all web controls. When you perform any action in a browser, for example click a link or a button or a check box, Automation Anywhere knows the exact web control. If websites change & links or buttons move, Automation Anywhere will still accurately replay the task. Enhanced Web Recorder with pattern based data extraction, allows you to extract web data with the same pattern spanning across multiple pages with ease.