RPA (WinAutomation)

Softmotive Company (started 2005) has 2 main Products

1. WinAutomation - 2008
2. ProcessRobot - 2016

WinAutomation 6.0.4 features

• Macro Recorder
• Web Recorder
• Task Scheduler 
• Triggers 
• Autologin 
• Image Recognition technology
• UI Automation technology
• Robot Compiler - Generate EXE
• Control Repository

WinAutomation 6.0.4 consist of

1. Console

• Robots Tab (*.waj) : Create/Import/Export/Edit/Delete/Run/Stop Robot
• Triggers Tab - Create/Edit/Delete/Enable/Disable Trigger
• Schedule - Create/Edit/Delete/Enable/Disable Schedule
• Logs
• Other -Authenticate/Mail/etc.

     2. Robot Designer

• Actions pane
• Workspace
• Variables Manager - Variables visualizer 
• Errors
• Region 
• function 

Tricks for creating robot

1. Give the proper variable name
2. Use exception handling wisely
3. Check the resource and do the data validation before start working on it.
4. Robot task may be same however environment may not be same every time while it is running so use wait control properly.
5. Know your session/instance properly.Use it and close it if not required.
6. Consistency is important in robot. you can get it by robot monitoring and checking occasional OS resources.Sometime shutdown of servers (upgrading or maintenance) or robot is also required to get the high performance.
7. Release the resources if you don't required.
8. While running repetitive task, you can face new problems and challenges every day so be ready for that.
9. Try to optimize the task.