Day 6: Foundation training

Automation Anywhere –  Open Program File

Foundation Training  Email Automation
 PGP Command
 Database Command
 Lab Exercises

Confidential © Copyright 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.

© 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Open Program File Command

• Use this command to automatically launch a program or open a file.

• You can perform the following actions in a task by using the Open Program/File command:
• If your program requires command line parameters, you can provide these parameters in the Parameters text box.
• If required, provide the directory path for your program in the 'Start in' Path text box. Automation Anywhere will verify that
this path is valid.
• You can enter variables in a file path.

© 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2

Email Automation

Email Automation command is used to intelligently automate mail server functions

and handle incoming email messages.
• Manage incoming email messages and download attachments to specific
folders.
• Clear unwanted email messages.
• Extract email data (such as Subject, Message, From:, To: , CC:, and
attachments) to applications (Excel, Word, Notepad, and others) or folders on
your computer.
• Select either IMAP or POP3 servers.
• Organize email messages while downloading them, based on status (All, Read,
and Unread).
• Select either HTML and Plain text formats for your email messages.

© 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. 3

PGP Command

Use the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) command to automatically encrypt and decrypt files for security.

The command supports both types of encryption: symmetric (passphrase) and asymmetric (public/private keys):
• PGP Passphrase: Requires a pass phrase to encrypt and decrypt.
• PGP Public/Private Key: Requires a PGP public and private key file to encrypt and decrypt.

Sub-Commands
• Encrypt Files
• Decrypt Files
• Create Keys

© 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. 4

PGP Command – Create Keys

This command can create public and private encryption keys.

© 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. 5

PGP Command – Encrypt Files

Use this command to encrypt one or more files using one of the
encryption methods: either passphrase or public/private key.

To encrypt files, follow these steps:

• Select the 'Passphrase' encryption type and enter a pass
phrase.

• Alternatively, select the Public/Private Key encryption type. For

this type, locate or specify the Public Key File path.

• Create public key if necessary.

© 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. 6

PGP Command – Decrypt Files

• Use this command to decrypt one or more files that have

been previously encrypted.
• It is possible decrypt files that are encrypted with either
Passphrase or Public/Private Key encryption type.

© 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. 7

Database Command

Sub-Commands
•
l Connect
•
l Disconnect
•
l SQL Query
•
l Insert/Update/Delete
•
l Run Stored Procedure

© 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. 8

Database Sub-commands

Connect Command:
Use this command to connect to a database by providing a
session name and a connection string.
To complete the connection string, click the browse button to
display the Data Link Properties window. Select the database
provider
and type the full path of the data source. When done, click on
Save.

© 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. 9

Database sub-command

SQL Query Command

© 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. 10

Database sub-commands

Run Stored Procedure Command:

© 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. 11

Questions?

© 2015 Avanade Inc. All Rights Reserved. 12