Automation 360 v.23 Community Edition Release Notes
- Updated: 2023/07/15
Automation 360 v.23 Community Edition Release Notes
Release date: 30 December 2021
Review what's new in the Community Edition of the Automation 360 v.23 (Build 11524) release. Build 11524 replaces Build 11513.
Automation Workspace
Automatically update the Bot Agent | Manually update the Bot Agent
To verify which Bot Agent version is compatible with this release, see Compatibility with release builds.
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Microsoft Edge (Chromium) supported for Control Room and
Bot Agent
You can now perform Control Room operations, and install and register your Bot Agent device using the Microsoft Edge based on Chromium browser. |
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Support
to automate Microsoft Edge Chromium with Internet Explorer compatibility
mode
(Service Cloud case ID: 00767502,
00787186) You can now automate web applications running on Microsoft Edge Chromium, by enabling the Internet Explorer compatibility mode, using the Universal Recorder where the objects are captured using HTML technology. |
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Support
for cross-domain IFrames in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge Chromium browsers (Service
Cloud case ID: 00825656) You can now capture and automate objects inside a cross-domain IFrame in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge Chromium browsers by using Recorder > Capture or the Start recording option. After you capture an object inside a cross-domain IFrame, the path to the frame is stored in the FrameDOMXPath property, by default. The new FrameDOMXPath property identifies the path to the frame in which the object is located. You must select this property to run the bot successfully to capture objects on a cross-domain IFrame. Note: This feature is available for
the bots you create using the
2.4.0-20211016-070100 version of the Recorder
package starting from this
release.
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Support for Capture anchor in
AISense Recorder
The AISense Recorder now supports the Capture Anchor option. When you run a bot to search for an object in an application in which the anchor changes frequently, you can use Capture anchor to override the default anchor and manually select an anchor to detect the object. |
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Enhanced support when selecting
Object property in Recorder
package
After you capture an object using the Recorder > Capture action, you can now select a particular object property name from the list of available properties in order to retrieve the value of the object property using the Get property action. The list includes suggested property names from the search criteria in the Object Properties table. |
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File ID supported in Check permission action
of Google Drive
package
(Service Cloud case ID:
00777716) The Check permission action of the Google Drive package now supports the File ID option to refer to files available in the Shared with me folder of Google Drive. By providing the File ID, you can now verify the Read, Write, or Delete access granted to you in the Shared with me folder of the Google Drive files. |
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New Credential package
You can now use the Assign action in the Credential package to assign an insecure string or a variable directly to the credential variable. |
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Web Services security supported in SOAP Web Service
package
(Service Cloud case ID: 00481836) As a Bot Creator, you can now provide credential variables in the raw data of the SOAP Web service action. You can create a credential variable, map the credential with a reference name in the credential mapper, and use the reference name in the raw data. Because this ensures that all security-related data can be defined in the Credential Vault and the credentials can be used in bots, you can safely deploy tasks without compromising security. |
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New
option in SOAP Web Service
package
Use the Build Xpath option in the SOAP Web Service package to extract values from the SOAP response. You can now specify the Xpath expression or select the appropriate node from the response body and store the output in a variable. |
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Read email from shared mailbox in Microsoft Outlook
(Service Cloud case ID: 00728579,
00831622) To automate email-related tasks, you can now select a shared account in Microsoft Outlook so that email messages can be read from the shared mailbox. |
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New encoding types supported in the Write to file action of Data Table
package
(Service Cloud case ID:
00767158) When you use the
Write to file
action to write data from a Table type
variable to a CSV or TXT file, you can now use the following
encoding types from the encoding list:
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Auto-save functionality in Bot editor
In the Bot editor, when you use actions to build an automation, when a bot is not
manually saved, an auto-save is performed and the bot now automatically saves the changes for
specific
events.
Note: The
auto-save functionality is currently available only for
specific events.
Some of the events that
support auto-save functionality are as follows:
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New option in FTP / SFTP
package
(Service Cloud case ID:
00792346) Use the Credential option when you connect with the Secure FTP server type to automate a task. You can now use username and password for authentication. |
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Enhancement to AISense Recorder
AISense Recorder now supports automation of applications that use Brazilian-Portuguese and a combination of Brazilian-Portuguese and English interfaces. |
Enhancements to Number package
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Enhancements to Wait package
Use the new
Capture region feature in the
Wait for screen change
action of the Wait package to
capture a specific region on an application by drawing a
rectangle around it so that the bot
automatically captures the coordinates of this region. You
can perform the following actions:
The coordinates are renamed as follows:
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Enhancement to String package
In the Extract text action of the String package, you can now extract a substring from a specified source string that occurs more than 1000 times in a file and up to a maximum limit of 999999. |
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Enhancement
to File conditions in If package
You can now use the new File extension condition from the Condition list in the If package to check the extensions of files and then execute actions based on the results. |
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Enhancement
to Excel advanced
package
(Service Cloud case ID:
00799071) Use the Open action of the Excel advanced package to open files with .ods, .htm, .html, .mht, .mhtml, .slk, and .pdf extensions. |
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Global
session support for loop iterator based on Excel advanced
You can now use the Global session option when you loop through each row in an Excel advanced worksheet. Use the Global session option to share a Microsoft Excel session across multiple bots so that you can use the same Excel worksheet across these bots. |
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New
APIs for devices
You can now
allocate default devices by using the new APIs introduced in
the v1/Devices section. Choose to set
or not set a specific device as the default deployment
device for a specified user by using the following APIs
respectively:
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Automation Co-Pilot for Business Users
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| New query filter in
Query Requests and Query Tasks actions
Use the new filter now available in the Query Requests and Query Tasks actions of the Process Composer package to filter query requests and tasks by team name in the Automation Co-Pilot web interface. |
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Team name
filter
You can filter your tasks and requests by team name in the Task and Request pages in the web interface, respectively. Select the Team label from the filter and search by team name to view the teams assigned to a task or request. Filter and search for a request | Filter and search for a task |
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Support for audit
logs
(Service Cloud case ID: 00801166) You can now view the audit logs and refer to events relating to requests, teams, scheduler, process setups, bot setups, human tasks, and bot tasks that you have created, deleted, updated, submitted, or recovered. |
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Enhancement to user
task assignment in Human
Task
In
the process editor, the Auto-assign this
task option in Human
Task provides the following alternatives:
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Enhancement to team
setup
You
can now simultaneously add multiple users with similar roles
(custom role) to the Automation Co-Pilot team in
the web interface. The custom role in the Control Room is now aligned with a team in
the Automation Co-Pilot web interface, and the
enhanced team setup works as follows:
Also, the Team page is now enhanced with navigation options at the top so that you can navigate through the various tabs (General, Users, Roles, Processes, and Bots). Use the General, Users, and Roles tabs to create teams and add users to them. The Processes and Bots tabs display the processes and bots assigned to teams, respectively. Team management | Create a team and assign roles to team members |
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Bot setup
support
The Automation Co-Pilot Admin can use the Bot Setup page to view the bots that are assigned to a team, assign teams to a bot, and edit bots to remove or reassign teams. Attended Bot Runners who can view all the bots that are checked in to the Public workspace can now view the bots that are assigned to teams in Automation Co-Pilot Desktop Assistant. |
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Enhancement to the
form
logo
You can now use the Logos in footer field to select up to two separate logos that are displayed in the footer of the form during bot runtime. |
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Add rules to various
form
elements
When
you are creating or editing a form in the form builder, you
can now add rules to the following form elements by using
the Form rules tab:
For the Checkbox and Radio Button elements, the rules are triggered only if the corresponding presets are selected. For example, if a form has two mutually exclusive options, such as Yes and No, the rules associated with these options are triggered only when you select one of the two options. |
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Updates to
triggers
The following triggers are now available to run a bot:
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Discovery Bot
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Install Bot Agent
seamlessly
If you have not already installed the Bot Agent, you are now prompted to install the Bot Agent from the Processes tab. Follow the screen instructions to install the Bot Agent. After the installation, you are prompted to enable a Chrome plug-in in order to proceed with your recording tasks. |
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Enhancement to
auto-generated opportunities
You can now begin reviewing an auto-generated opportunity from the Opportunities tab when at least one process recording is submitted for review. Review the auto-generated opportunity and choose to create a custom opportunity from an auto-generated opportunity, as required. |
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New recordings for review for custom
opportunity
You can now review new recordings submitted by a Discovery Bot user for a custom opportunity. You can choose to accept or dismiss the recording updates as part of the custom opportunity work flow. This option allows you to quickly and easily review new recordings in real time as the recordings are submitted by the user for that process. |
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Enhancements to
Opportunities
page
The opportunities page is now updated to include an opportunities evolution map, along with other graphs, to help you review and analyze data for a potential opportunity for automation. Use the opportunities evolution map to help guide you on which opportunities to automate first. |
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Download PDD document from the Recordings
page
You can now download and export a PDD document from the Recordings page. After you submit a recording for an analyst to review, the PDD begins processing in the background automatically. When the PDD is generated, the field changes from Processing PDD to Download. You can now choose to download the document in Word format, PDF, or both. An email notification to the business user is also sent to the email address on file. The Download PDD for Word or PDF document is also available for a custom opportunity from the Opportunities list table. |
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| In the Community Edition and Free Trial version, if five
processes are created by the user and then deleted, the
auto-generated opportunity will fail when the recording is
submitted for the sixth process. Workaround: Create a new Community Edition and Free Trial user to create new processes and opportunities. |
IQ Bot
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Document Automation released in Community Edition
Community Edition now offers limited features from the Document Automation version. This version is integrated with the Community Control Room. When you create a learning instance, IQ Bot automatically creates RPA bots to extract and download the data and an Automation Co-Pilot process to manage the end-to-end process. Validation now takes place in Automation Co-Pilot tasks. Use IQ Bot Community Edition to extract data from invoices in English. |
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Classifier
enhancements
You can now create custom document groups in a learning instance. This reduces the possibility of an OCR failing to detect fields in a document, which will cause the Classifier to create a document group unnecessarily or send the document to a wrong group. |