Version 11.3.5.1 Release Notes
- Updated: 2022/11/09
Version 11.3.5.1 Release Notes
Review the new features, changed features, fixed features, security fixes, and known limitations in Version 11.3.5.1 for Automation Anywhere Control Room, Enterprise Client, and Bot Insight.
If you have already installed Version 11.3.5.1 and your active schedules no longer exist, see this article for information about how to retrieve the schedules: Scheduled bots disappear after upgrading Control Room to 11.3.5.1 (A-People login required).
New features
| Control Room |
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Configure banner text for login
page
Service Cloud case ID: 00453389 To provide legal protection in a secured environment, admin users can configure a banner text that will be displayed on the login screen of the Control Room and Enterprise Client. The user can enable or disable this setting from the Control Room. |
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Support for LDAP channel
binding
Control Room supports LDAP channel binding in order to comply with a security release from Microsoft. LDAP channel binding provides enhanced security for network communications between an Active Directory and its clients. It provides a more secure LDAP authentication over SSL and TLS. |
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Export or import workload management
queues
Zendesk ticket ID: 109568 Users with the AAE_Queue_Admin role can now export or import workload queues along with entities that include general settings, owners, participants, consumers, Work Item structure, and Work Items in the Control Room. You can reuse already created queues across environments without manually creating them in your Control Room. |
| Bot Insight |
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Power BI connector part of Microsoft Power BI
desktop
The Automation Anywhere connector for Bot Insight is now certified and officially a part of the Microsoft Power BI Desktop August release. |
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API to retrieve scheduled device
information
The
/v2/botinsight/data/api/getdevicescheduleinfo
API is now available which enables you to retrieve
device-specific metrics. The API provides the following
information:
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Changed features
| Control Room |
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Configure decimal place for division in client
application settings
For the division operation, you can now configure decimal places for division in the Control Room. You can set the value of the decimal place in the range of 0 through 16. The default value is 4. |
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Set screen resolution for bot deployment in
RDP
Service Cloud case ID: 00452025 You can now set the screen resolution of the Bot Runners for every bot deployment or schedule in RDP. When you select the Run bot runner session on control room option, the Set bot runner screen resolution check box is enabled. You can set the resolution either by selecting a value from the drop-down list or entering a value in the field. The screen resolution is only set for the RDP session. The actual resolution of the Bot Runner machine remains unchanged. |
| Enterprise Client |
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Retrieve all characters from an Excel cell using Get Cell
Value in the Excel command
Service Cloud case ID: 00390855 In the Excel command, a Get Cell Value check box is now available for the Get Cells, Specific Cell option, which you can use to perform the following:
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Display email received date and time in local time zone
for Email Automation
command
Zendesk ticket ID: 94592, 00458979 In the Email Automation command, when you select IMAP or POP3 as the server type, a Use local timezone check box is now available. When you select this check box, the email received date and time is displayed in the local time zone. If the Use local timezone check box option is not selected, the email received date and time is displayed in the server time zone. |
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Install and uninstall plug-ins using MSIs
You can now perform the following operations using the Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI):
You can perform these operations using the installation wizard or through silent installation. |
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New Email system variables available: Email
sent date and sent time
You can now use the Email Sent Date and Email Sent Time variables for the following:
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New tag available in the exported XML file of
Object Cloning
command
A new
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Automate Oracle applications using Object Cloning
command
Zendesk ticket ID: 60016, 67078, 67711, 69542, 88071, 97982, 115481, 154529, 00039874, 00375189 The Object Cloning command is now enhanced to capture objects on Oracle EBS applications. |
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Configure decimal place for mathematical
operations
Zendesk ticket ID: 67958,76861,92825,109625,154606,156532 In the Variable Operation command, you can now configure the decimal value for all mathematical operations. You can select the Decimal configuration check box and set the value of the decimal place in the range of 0 through 16. The default value is 4. |
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Optimized search for all the Java-based
application
Service Cloud case ID: 00463762 The search by location capability is now enabled for all Java-based applications to optimize the search and play mechanism. |
| Bot Insight |
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Audit dashboard access for non-admin users
Non-admin users can now access the Audit dashboard and perform certain tasks in the dashboard. |
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Power BI connector included in installation file
The Power BI connector is now available as part of the Automation Anywhere Enterprise installation file. You can plug the connector into your Power BI Desktop or Power BI Service. |
Fixed features
| Control Room | |
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| Zendesk ticket ID/Service Cloud case ID | Description |
| 00534562 | Work Items that are inserted in the Queue are now deployed immediately and no longer remain in the queue even when a large size bot is deployed. |
| 00440536 | Bot Insight licenses are now used only when a Bot Insight role is assigned to the user. When the Bot Insight role is assigned to the user, if the operation fails because license consumption is exceeded, a correct count of the licenses is displayed on the license page. |
| 00368160 | When the Control Room tries to retrieve schedule automation data from the database and the database connection is unavailable, the information is now recorded in the audit log. Earlier, the information was not recorded in the audit log. |
| -- | If one occurrence of the schedule is affected due to an issue related to database connection or database downtime, all the subsequent occurrences of the schedule no longer result in an AUTOMATION_MISFIRE audit. |
| 00502268 | When Work Items are assigned to multiple bots at the same time, the Work Items are processed only once, preventing the bots from repeating the output. |
| 00528697 | Work Items are no longer deployed on the disconnected Bot Runner machine but deployed only in the connected machine. As a result, Work Item consumption is no longer delayed. |
| 00523775 | Files in the temporary folder are now deleted without any interruption even when a specific erroneous file is not deleted during the delete process. This prevents files from accumulating in the NAS repository of the Control Room and enables other operations to function properly. |
| 221378, 00585611 | To resolve issues such as user permissions and bot deployment, you can configure an API-based
setting, which enables the Enterprise Client to retry
communication with the Control Room. Contact Automation Anywhere Support for more details on the API configuration. |
| Enterprise Client | |
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| Zendesk ticket ID/Service Cloud case ID | Description |
| -- | Send Email Notification now works properly for reports. Previously, when an email was sent from Exchange Web Services (EWS) using OAuth, the notification did not work for reports. |
| -- | The is now fixed for terminal type 3270 with advanced technology. The output of the action now displays all the lines in the TN3270 screen. Previously, the last line text was not displayed. |
| 00541416 | The Excel cell variable used in the Excel Command now displays the correct output when an Excel file has various sheets and each sheet has a different header name. |
| 00534743 | A task file with variables in the If command with the Image Recognition condition can now be exported correctly to an XML file format. |
| 00493708 | A task executed using the If Windows Control exist command now works properly. Previously, the task failed when the command was used. |
| 00489459 | The Email Automation command with the Get All Messages option enabled now downloads all the email attachments. Previously, emails were read but some of the file attachments were not downloaded. |
| 00379817 | You can now delete emails from the mailbox using a loop in the Delete Message of the Email Automation command. Previously, when the email body contained an image in the first line, the task stopped responding. |
| -- | When you select the EWS option as the server type in the Email setting and Trigger Manager screens, a tooltip is now provided for the Client IDand Tenant ID fields, and the First time EWS OAuth connection only label. |
| 00526996 | The array variable now contains correct values. As a result, when a value is assigned to an array variable from an Excel or CSV file and the range does not start from Column A and is set to more than 50 rows, the variable now contains the correct values. Previously, the array variable did not contain the values properly. |
| -- | The Object Cloning command now updates the technology appropriately. As a result, a Task Bot created in Version 11.3.2 with Legacy set as true and updated in Version 11.3.5.1 with any other technology will reflect the updated technology value. Previously, the technology value remained the same and was not updated. |
| -- | When Auto Login with the legal disclaimer setting is enabled, after an Auto Login timeout, the user is now prompted to enter a password; the user cannot directly log in to the system. Previously, the user was directly logged in without a prompt for the password. |
| 00488549 | The Object Cloning command now captures images properly in the Workbench even when the screen is partially visible. Previously, images captured using this command showed displaced images in the Workbench. |
| 00474695 | The Compare functionality now displays the SAP GUI Automation command lines. Previously, the command lines were not displayed and appeared blank. |
| 00505793 | In the XML command, when you insert a
node in the XML file, DefaultNSPrefix is no
longer added. Additionally, starting from Version 11.3.5.1, in the Advanced
view tab of the Insert
Node command, the xmlns (default XML namespace)
is not allowed either as a prefix or as an attribute. |
| 00573310, 00593806, 00593676, 00600139, 00621361 | When you send an email from the Send Email command with authentication enabled in the email settings and if the SMTP server does not allow the From address to be different from the address configured in the settings, the send email operation fails. The system now displays an error message indicating that the email address must not be different and has to be updated. |
| 00514523 | A task created and deployed using the System
Variable now displays the correct value for
$AATaskExecutor(Executor_Email)$.
Previously, it displayed an empty value. |
| 00500566 | In the Enterprise Client, redundant exceptions are now managed properly for AANotification.exe. The AANotification error is no longer displayed on deployment from the Control Room due to these exceptions. |
| 184138 | You can now successfully run the queued tasks without any error even if the enabletaskqueue setting is enabled in the AA.setting.xml file. Previously, the queued task execution failed because the player intermittently stopped due to an error. |
| Bot Insight | |
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| Zendesk ticket ID/Service Cloud case ID | Description |
| 00474012 | When the Control Room is opened in the Google Chrome browser and the display language is set to Japanese, the Bot Insight dashboard content is now displayed in Japanese. Previously, the dashboard content was displayed in English. |
| 00567278 | An error message is now displayed on the operational
analytics dashboard in the following scenarios:
The error message indicates that an access token is required in the X-Authorization header. Previously, when data was not available, the operational analytics dashboard was displayed twice. |
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00552711 |
The dashboard widget for Bot Device Utilization datasource now loads properly, even if the data is large. |
Security fixes
| Control Room | |
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| Zendesk ticket ID/Service Cloud case ID | Description |
| -- | Added the display for date and time of last login in the Control Room. |
| 229851, 231912, 232498 | Added HTTP security headers to all the Control Room responses:
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| 00393541 | Added ability to update database passwords for Control Room. |
| 00453389 | Added login banner to display access warning in the Control Room. |
| 00576055, 00608138 | Added restrictions on the Control Room administrative settings pages to display an Access is denied message for non-administrative users. |
| 00524226 | Removed the Allow Header HTTP header from Bot Insight. |
Known limitations
| Control Room |
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| You will encounter an issue when you uninstall
the Version 11.3.5.1 patch in order to revert
to the base Version 11.3.5. Workaround: You must provide the Version 11.3.5 MSI file to uninstall Version 11.3.5.1 |