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Day 11) Getting Started

a. Hardware Software requirements

b. Downloading the tools (STU and PAM)

c. Installation and Sign Up

  • If you have used your email previously for another ARGOS account

       1. Our SV/STU account supports the "email plus(+) sign" scheme when you want to use an email address which has been already used at any other accounts.
       2. For example, new registration with example+2@argos-labs.com is possible after example@argos-labs.com has been used to register an account already.
           The correspondences will go to the correct address
       3. (More here: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html)
d. Logging onto Supervisor
e. Switching on the Plugins

2) STU Overview and Support Resourcesa. Where to get help
  • FAQ from STU (You can access FAQ from our website too)
       1. https://wiki.argos-labs.com/display/RPARELNOTE/FAQ
  • Keyword search
       1. FAQ
       2. Toolbox
  • STU links to help
       1. The [HELP] tab
          a. Benny’s page for Variables
          b. FAQ access
          c. tech@argos-labs.com
             i. 24-hour email support
       2. Help for specific Operations
          a. The QUESTION buttons
       3. Learn More
          a. Variable
          b. Return Value
       4. Time-out
       5. Toolbox
       6. Timeline
          a. Steps
          b. Functions
  • Tutorial Materials
       1. 90 min Rocket Start videos
          a. https://www.argos-labs.com/rocket-start/
3) PAM Settings and Registrationa. Test your PAM
b. Check to see if Supervisor sees your PAM
4) The First Bota. How operations connect with each other
b. How ARGOS Low-code variables work
c. Auto Rec
d. Manual Bot Development
e. Combining Manual Development and Auto Rec
f. Test locally with your PAM
g. Deployment
i. ebot
ii. On-demand remote execution
iii. Scheduled execution
iv. API
h. Execution result at Supervisor
Day 25) Various Automation Capabilitiesa. Bot navigation schemes
    i. API driven
    ii. Code/Object driven’
       1. HTML
       2. JavaScript
       3. Python
       4. PowerShell
       5. Run Program
       6. Window object
    iii. Properties/Windows metadata
    iv. Shortcut Keys
    v. Image Processing/GUI base
b. Triggering the bot Execution
    i. Monitoring email inbox
    ii. Monitoring a folder
c. Calling functions
d. MS Excel
e. pdf
Day 35) Various Automation Capabilitiesf. Web application
    i. Data entry
    ii. Data extraction – Webscraping
       1. Open Browser
       2. Python Selenium
       3. Other plugins
g. Files and folders
h. Sending emails
i. AI-OCR
    i. Google
    ii. Konica Minolta
    iii. others
j. Repeat processes – setting up loops
k. Large data processing
    i. Excel vs Pandas
Day 46) Troubleshooting with Supervisor dataa. Execution results
b. Reporting/Notification features
7) Increasing Stability and Robustnessa. Windows focus/Active application
b. Verification operations
c. App performance/Resource release and use of delays
d. Retry schemesloop implementation and in-bot error notification
e. Custom logs (in-bot) for easier troubleshooting
Day 58) POT SDK – building your own Plugin/Operations 

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