Automation 360 v.34 Community Edition Release Notes

Release date: 27 September 2024

Review what's new in the Community Edition of the Automation 360 v.34 (Build 26332) release.

Note: When a Bot Agent update is required, the Bot Agent is automatically updated to the compatible version.

For more information on updating to this release, see these resources:

Automation Workspace

What's new
Debug enhancements
  • You can now enable or disable breakpoints in child bots while debugging the end-to-end parent-child automations.

    Adding breakpoints in child bots allows you to pause the execution of the automation at specific points, making it easier to debug and inspect the state of the automation at those points, specifically for complex and long-running processes that span multiple tasks or child automations.

  • Breakpoints and watched variables added to a specific bot will now be automatically saved, eliminating the need for manual saving. This ensures that all breakpoints and watched variables are retained even if you close and reopen your automation or switch between different debugging sessions thereby maintaining a consistent debugging workflow.
  • You can debug your automations only in the private repository.

Debugging tools | Watched variables

New enhanced expression builder

We have made the process of creating expressions more intuitive to enhance developing automations. In the editor, the process to insert a variable or build an expression manually in the action properties is now simplified and easy to use, without requiring a deep understanding of expression patterns. You can now quickly create simple to complex expressions, saving you valuable time.

Option to ignore pop-ups in the Bot editor

When you create or open an existing bot, you can now test the resiliency settings by enabling the pop-up handler feature before running the bot . This ensures a successful execution without any runtime issues.

Ignore pop-ups during automation execution

What's changed
Set a limit on the size of the upload file (Service Cloud case ID: 02085500)

The File size upload limit option is now updated to enable Control Room administrators to set the limit on the size of a file that is being uploaded by other users.

File upload settings

Bot Agent version change notification

After you update to this release, an update notification alert is displayed in the Notifications section of the Control Room when there is a change in the major, minor, or a patch version of the latest Bot Agent.

Automatically update the Bot Agent

Generative Recorder configuration settings

In the Recorder package (version 3.1.5 and later), the Generative Recorder configuration settings are now visible regardless of whether a Recorder action is added in the Bot editor, ensuring there is no confusion about enabling the fallback option.

Note: To save the configuration settings, the automation must include a Recorder action.

Automation Co-Pilot for Business Users

What's new
To provide an improved user experience, when you add or resize a new element in a row of a form created in Process Composer, the form renders the row and its elements consistently regardless of how the form was created via the desktop, web, embedded, or mobile platform.
Additionally, each row on a form can contain up to 10 elements with a total combined cell width limited to 100%. When adding or editing elements to a row, if you exceed either the number of elements in a row, or the combined cell width is greater than 100%, two new messages are displayed:
  • If you add a new element to a row that already contains 10 elements, this message is displayed: Do you want to replace the element in the column? The element originally in the target column will be replaced by the new element. Click either No, Cancel or Yes, replace.
  • When adding a new element to a row, if the combined cell width is greater than 100%, this message is displayed: Maximum combined cell width is 100%.

You must adjust the number of elements and/or cell width of an element in the row to proceed.

When you add rules to forms in Process Composer, hidden variables now support all the same If/Else conditions that are available for their respective visible form elements, except for the Has errors condition. This applies to these specific hidden variable types:
  • String
  • Number
  • Date
  • Time

The Has errors condition remains exclusive to visible form elements only.

What's changed
When elements in a form have any errors in their property values (such as minimum/maximum, height, and so on), the form Save option will be disabled. In previous Automation 360 versions, the Save option was enabled. If you open an older form that contained errors in their properties, you must resolve the errors before you can save and proceed; otherwise, you can close the form.
To better assist users with troubleshooting errors, when they edit a process task in Process Composer, validation error messages now display specific information as to which field needs to be corrected, and any required fields that are missing information are highlighted with a red box.

Document Automation

What's new
New navigation to access learning instances

We have created a new AI section in the navigation menu, which includes Document Automation and other AI-powered products. This streamlined navigation makes it easy to find and access all our AI-enabled offerings.

You can access your learning instances using the new navigation: AI > Document Automation.
New navigation Previous navigation
New navigation to access learning instance Previous navigation to access learning instance
Field-level validation feedback

You now have the option to disable or enable validation feedback for each form and table fields so that users have control over which fields require validation feedback. This option is particularly useful when you need to disable validation feedback for fields that provide desired results without the need for validation feedback or when you need to use alternate solutions such as pre-trained model or generative AI providers to improve data extraction.

Considerations for form and table fields

Support for new languages in Automation Anywhere user-defined provider

You can now process documents in the following languages when using the user-defined document type and Automation Anywhere (user-defined) provider:

  • Afrikaans
  • Estonian
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Polish
  • Romanian
  • Swedish

Languages supported in Document Automation