Chapter 5: Building Your First Bot
As a bot developer, you will use many of the different actions available to you. We have already looked at implementing a simple Message box. Although this shows how to apply an action, it doesn't really perform any task. In the real world, bots perform tasks that are usually done by humans. These tasks are often tedious, boring, and repetitive. To really learn how to build fully functional bots, we need a task that would be ideal for automation.
You should now be familiar with the development interface. In the previous chapter, we looked at the different views for visualizing your bot as you built it. You also got a glimpse of all the actions available to help automate your tasks.
In this chapter, we will expand on this knowledge. We will take a real-life business case, a relatively simple process, with the aim of fully automating it. The process will involve including, reading, and creating a CSV file, as well as carrying out some basic...
