Community Edition A2019.17 Release Notes

A new authentication is available for the Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol with OAuth. You can use the OAuth authentication and enable your EWS-managed API applications to access Exchange online in Office 365.

Using the Connect action

To establish a connection and communicate with another machine, you can now use the VT220 terminal for sending and receiving text.

Using the Connect action

• Record a task using the Universal Recorder or AISense Recorder from a single point of entry. Both recorders are now managed through a single package, which enables faster and more efficient updates.
• You can now record tasks in a Microsoft Edge browser that runs on Chromium (versions 79 and later).
• Use the AISense Recorder Define option to capture an object that is only visible when you hover the mouse over the object.
• Use the Resize window option in the Recorder > Capture action to set the window width and height.

  This option delivers a more reliable bot. It resizes the window to the dimensions at which the task was recorded, thus increasing the likelihood that the bot identifies the target object.

Get started with recorders | Universal Recorder supported applications and browsers | Using the Capture action

Use the new Shared session option to pass the exact state of an application to a concurrently occurring TaskBot or MetaBot logic. For example, instead of connecting to the same application multiple times for different tasks, you can use the option to connect to the application using a single task, thus optimizing your automation logic in the long run.

Share session between TaskBot logic

Use the Set session action from the Excel basic or Excel advanced package to assign an Excel session to a variable, and then pass that variable from a parent to a child bot. This enables the child bot to access the worksheet opened in the parent bot.

Excel basic package | Excel advanced workbook operations | Example of sharing an Excel session between bots

In the Task Bot package, you can now use the Run action with an option to repeat the selected task until you choose to stop it.

Use the new Search for roles API in the User Management APIs in Swagger to obtain a list of all the roles or details for a specific role.

Search for roles API

In the REST Web Service package, you can capture the response status of the REST API in the dictionary variable. The dictionary variable now shows the response key with its value.

Use the Capture failure response action in the REST Web Service package to capture response details in the response body.

You can use regular expressions (regex) in certain actions to support pattern-based search in a file, folder, or Windows title. Regular expressions are supported in the actions of the File and File and Folder packages such as Copy, Delete, Rename, Print Multiple files, and Zip.

You can also use regular expressions in some packages that support the wildcard character in their window titles.

The following packages and actions support regular expressions:

• Wait
• Image Recognition
• Simulate keystrokes
• Mouse > Click action
• Legacy Automation > Manage windows control
• OCR
• Screen
• Recorder > Capture
• Run DLL > Run function (Legacy), Run function
• Window: Activate, Close, Maximize, Minimize, Resize

Using Copy Desktop file action for file | Using the Capture action

The DLL > Run function action can now handle .dll files that contain multiple functions of the same name. The action calls the function based on the number of parameters passed.

Using the Run function action

Use new actions that are available for Tree, Tab, and Label controls to perform operations for the various objects captured from an SAP application.

Recorder actions supported in various SAP versions

You can use a string variable containing multiple lines of text in the following actions:

• String > Assign
• String > Extract text
• String > Compare
• String > Lowercase
• String > Replace
• String > Reverse
• Log to file
• Message box
• The string condition in the If, Wait, and While actions

You can now create variables with names containing Arabic or Russian characters, or Japanese double-byte numbers.

Unicode range supported in variables

AARI users can now reference selected actions of their tasks. When they view a submitted task in request view, a check mark indicator is now displayed next to the buttons that are selected.

You can now run a process in your private workspace by using the Run option in the process editor. The bots in the process are then executed on the default device of the Bot Creator.

Configure processes

You can now use new variables in the process editor such as createdOn and updatedOn (DateTime), id (Number), and title (String). These variables are part of a data flow (workflow engine) that moves data between each step of a process and requires variable input for the process to run properly.

AARI variable types

The Data Privacy tag enables users to generate hidden custom output in their process tasks (Start panel, Human Task, and Bot Task). Users can enter the variables for this field during runtime with values. In the web portal, the AARI admin can use this tag to check for requests or tasks by using personal user data. The admin can also filter using this field.

Create an AARI process | Filter and search for a request | Filter and search for a task

Use the AARI dashboard to view various widgets that provide information about requests created from published processes in AARI. The dashboard also provides statistics on the status of created requests.

AARI dashboard