Automation Co-Pilot for Business Users v.35 release

Review what's new and changed, and the fixes and limitations in Automation Co-Pilot for the v.35 release.

What's new

When you create a form in Process Composer, you now have the ability to hide and show any of the following elements by clicking the Make field hidden check box that was added to the Advanced behavior section on the Properties - Form page:
  • Button
  • Checkbox
  • Date
  • Dropdown
  • Dropdown Multi-select
  • Hyperlink
  • Number
  • Password
  • Radio button
  • Rich Text Editor
  • Text area
  • Text box
  • Time

New Make field hidden

By default, all elements are not hidden. If you select this check box in Process Composer, it will make the field hidden when the form is rendered in the process. To dynamically hide and show the fields, the following Conditions and Actions have been added to the rules for the aforementioned elements:
  • The following Conditions have been added:
    • Is hidden
    • Is visible
  • The following Actions have been added:
    • Set hidden
    • Set visible
In Process Composer, the accurate preview of the desktop form displays with the form title.

When in Run-time in Automation Co-Pilot, if you open a form in a new window by clicking the Open in new window button, the form title displays.

The Enable close on end machine and Enable minimize on end machine fields have been removed. By default, the minimize and close icons have been enabled on your machine.

What's changed

The ability to set the height settings for the Process Composer form in Automation Co-Pilot has been changed to improve the user experience.
  • From the Properties - Form page, the current default value for the Width Dimension field has been increased from 450 px to 600 px, and the Height Dimension field has been removed.
  • From the Form Preview page, a new Co-Pilot properties section has been added which includes the ability to change the Height, Position, and Display resolution of the Co-Pilot desktop application window. The Width is set to 600 px by default and cannot be changed; whereas the Height is set to 600 px by default but can be changed.
  • From the Form Preview page, you can now select an option from a drop-down for how you want to position the window: Top left (default position), Bottom left, Center, Top right, or Bottom left. If you open and save any forms that were created in Process Composer before the v.35 release, then their position will display using the Top left position.

New form preview

After introducing the latest Authentication API v2 (while deprecating the previous Authentication API v1), the existing Salesforce connector package integration becomes incompatible. To continue to successfully deploy production tasks, you must download and install the latest Salesforce AppExchange package from here: Automation Anywhere RPS Bots for Salesforce.

Service Cloud case ID: 02144004, 02146345, 02145362

Fixes

After clicking to submit a form in Automation Co-Pilot, the page no longer displays a white (blank) web page because a rule action could not execute when it used a blank value for a hidden variable. The rule action is now able to execute properly without displaying a blank web page.

Service Cloud case ID: 02138224
After deleting data from an input field in Process Composer, the value that was deleted no longer re-appears in the field.
When you create a form that contains Checkbox and Textbox elements, and a rule to set a value, the rule now properly triggers the next Human task step to occur.
When you execute a long-running automation, the progress window at the top of the automation list no longer behaves inconsistently and closes properly after the automation completes.

When the following form rule was set in Process Composer:

If TextBox0 contains a Value that is specified in a hiddenVariable, then show an error to TextBox0

The rule always generated an error even when TextBox0 did not contain a value that was specified in a hiddenVariable. This has been fixed and an error is no longer generated unless TextBox0 matches the hiddenVariable value.

Service Cloud case ID: 02142022

When you use the Number element in an Automation Co-Pilot form with the option Use comma to separate thousands and a comma (,) is part of the data field, if you modify any of the data in the Number element , the cursor position no longer shifts.

Service Cloud case ID: 02131012
If you have a form that includes a table and a copied table element, when that data is fed from the initial step into the next form step in the process, if you attempt to delete the copied table element, the process now runs successfully after you click Submit.
When setting rules and their conditions for a form, and you select Form Element or Expression for a Table element, the rules are now triggered properly for any set of conditions.

The automation priority is now properly getting set as the Bot priority in an Automation Co-Pilot Bot task process.

  • For a private space: To run the bot with high priority, besides setting the priority at bot level, the creator user should also have the custom role permission of set automation priority high permission assigned.
  • For a public space: To run the bot with high priority, besides setting the priority at bot level, the scheduler user should also have the custom role permission of set automation priority high permission assigned.

If you fail to provide the role permission, then the bot will run with medium priority even if you select high priority at bot development time.

Service Cloud case ID: 02137665
When running a process, the document viewer no longer displays an unreadable PDF showing skewed data. The PDF is readable when running a process.

Service Cloud case ID: 02145685
The form no longer displays as a "blank" form when you select the Interactive forms: Add row in Dynamic area action and enable the Mark field as required feature to add a TextBox into the dynamic area of a form.

Service Cloud case ID: 02141861
After rendering a form generated from a process and a successful file upload using the Select File element, buttons are now positioned and aligned properly.
When feeding an Input variable file type as part of the initial/starting step of a process created with Automation Co-Pilot for the web or with Process Composer: Create a Request option, an error is no longer generated and the process is created successfully.

Service Cloud case ID: 02154065, 02155812, 02156587
In a process, if your form contains an API Task, the output value from the API Task is now in a compatible format to be passed to the Bot Task, and the process executes successfully.

Previously, the DateTime values from the API Task were not in a compatible format causing the process execution to fail.

Service Cloud case ID: 02152218

Limitations

The Process and Team setup pages are not loading properly in Automation Co-Pilot while generating a 504: Gateway time-out error.

Service Cloud case ID: 02152431, 02152518, 02152796, 02152810, 02153073, 02152475
You are unable to pass user-defined input variables from a Process Request in Process Composer to a step attribute on a form.
The hyperlink does not open the user's selected browser choice. Based on where you click the hyperlink, the following behavior occurs:
  • When using Microsoft Teams, the hyperlink opens in the default browser that is set on your device. See Teams->Settings->Files and Links->Links open preference->Default Browser Official Documentation Link-Microsoft forum.
  • If the selected browser is Internet Explorer, then the hyperlink opens in Microsoft Edge.
  • If the default browser option is set, then the hyperlink will open a new tab in the same browser window (if that browser is already open).
  • For a user-specific browser, the hyperlink opens in a new window (even if the browser is already open).
Limitations from previous releases
Currently, a user who is logged in as an Automation Co-Pilot admin without having an Automation Co-Pilot user license is prevented from running or scheduling a process from a public workspace. A user who has run or schedule permission and access to the folder of the process should be able to run or schedule the process.

Workaround: Add the required license.
If you created a form with a hidden variable date element, if you try to override the hidden date element on the form in Process Composer by adding static data when you are mapping the variable, then the overridden static data is not passed to the next step in the form.
When you drag any element onto a form in Process Composer, and then click the vertical ellipsis to select an option for the element, the options list closes when the scroll bar is at the middle or end of the options list. You are unable to select an option from the list.

Workaround: Scroll exactly below the vertical ellipsis to select an option.
When a user with access to process in the web application logs into Automation Co-Pilot within the Salesforce application, logs out of the Control Room and logs in with a different user who does not have a valid Automation Co-Pilot license, Automation Co-Pilot still displays the automations list in Salesforce. Instead of showing a license error with a logout option, the system displays content from the prior session, even though the user has logged in with different credentials. This issue occurs because the Automation Co-Pilot window is using session data from the original session instead of refreshing for the new login.

Workaround: Disable the third party storage partition flag from the browser. See Automation Co-Pilot for Business Users FAQ.

For On-Premises deployments, the HBC service is not responding in some Automation Co-Pilot cluster nodes.

Workaround: For any node of the cluster where the HBC service is down, restart the service.

When a user with the Bot Creator or Citizen Developer license or AAE_Robotic Interface Admin role logs in to Automation Co-Pilot and then accesses the Automations list page, this improper message currently displays: Error occurred while performing requested operation.

Suggested action: Ensure that the appropriate license and roles are assigned. User should have the Automation Co-Pilot for Business Users license with either the AAE_Robotic Interface User or AAE_Robotic Interface Manager role assigned, and then to try to access Automation Co-Pilot again.

Updates to the interface

Process Composer
The ability to set the width and height settings for the Process Composer form in Automation Co-Pilot has been changed to improve the user experience.

The Properties - Form page has been updated:

New Form width

The Form Preview page has been updated with a new Co-Pilot properties section:

New Form Preview
When you create a form in Process Composer, you now have the ability to hide and show some elements by clicking the Make field hidden check box. The Properties - Form page has been updated:

New Make field hidden