Automation 360 v.28 Release Notes

Release date: 5 April 2023

Review the top 5 features in this release as well as other new features and exciting enhancements for Automation 360 v.28 release.

Build 17542: Automation 360 (Cloud and Cloud Sandbox) and IQ Bot (Cloud)
Build 17542: Automation 360 (On-Premises)
Build 17506: IQ Bot (On-Premises)

We have released updated builds for fixes after the GA release of v.28 (Cloud Build 17524 and On-Premises Build 17506). For information about the fixes in these updated builds, see Updated release builds.

Highlights of this release

Here are the top 5 features in the v.28 release:

Document Automation and Google Document AI

Validation-based improvement on Google Document AI extractions: Empower your employees to save time and automate more documents using Document Automation and Google Document AI validation feedback, which in turn provides improved extraction accuracy for Document AI learning instances.

Leverage integration update with the latest Google Document AI parsers: Improve extraction accuracy and enable 7 additional languages (including Italian and Portuguese) for Document AI invoices, and Japanese for Document AI expense receipts.

Validation-based improvements and other enhancements on Google Document AI extractions

Create a learning instance in Document Automation

CoE Manager: Value tracking for On-Premises automations

Calculate ROI for automations running on an On-Premises Control Room by running a bot to push automation-run data to CoE Manager. View your ROI data in real-time dashboards and create a healthy pipeline of automations that will help propel your business forward.

Integrate CoE Manager with On-Premises Control Room

Empower business users with Automation Co-Pilot and Microsoft Teams

Bring automation to your employees in their favorite collaboration tool Microsoft Teams. Employees can be in a chat or team channel, or open Automation Co-Pilot from the Apps menu to view a list of the AARI processes and desktop automations they have access to. They can start and monitor these automations, without having to leave Teams.

Interface of Embedded Automation in MS Teams

Set up Automation Co-Pilot for Microsoft Teams

Workday package

Easily automate your Workday processes such as reporting, data upload/download, or triggering workflows with our new point-and-click experience. Our new package provides deep API-level integration with Workday that enables you to build automations easily, without having to code.

Workday package

Enhance developer productivity

Next-gen Recorder: Improve automation reliability for web applications when the UI element is not visible on the screen. The Recorder will automatically work around this without any developer intervention.

Improved automation reliability for web applications

Recorder package

Email automation through a shared mailbox: Automate email tasks over a shared mailbox in Microsoft 365 Outlook using IMAP or EWS protocols and Client Credential flow or PKCE flow with Exchange Online. This feature saves you money, time, and effort in maintaining individual personal mailboxes.

Email package

Quickly search and replace any text or variables in the action properties of the bot: Save time and improve developer productivity with an automatic search and replace tool in Bot Assistant. Users can quickly search for any specific text or variable, navigate through the search results, and selectively replace each occurrence of the text or variable in the automation.

Search and replace option in Bot editor

Bot runtime alerts: Gain visibility into your automations with notifications on various platform events and take actions based on these notifications. Get notified on events such as automation runtime and device pools from within the application (default) or through email reports based on your preference.

Automation events | Platform events

Enhancement to bulk package update: As an automation administrator, update multiple packages in bulk or perform updates to specific bots and view outcomes of these applied updates in a system-generated report.

Bulk package update for required and multiple bots

Updating package versions | Update bots to default package version

Updated release builds

We have released the updated build Build 17542 (Cloud and On-Premises) to include fixes for the following issues:
- Fix for an issue when bot preview is unavailable when you check out a bot that is using metadata in actions (for example, Image Recognition, Recorder, and Screen Capture).
- Fix for an issue where editing a bot from a folder fails when a policy is assigned to the folder and its subfolders and one of the subfolders is deleted.
We have released the updated build Build 17533 (Cloud) to include a fix for an issue found when exporting a bot.
Exporting a bot fails when you perform the following steps:
1. Log in to the Control Room.
2. Create a main bot and child bot using the Recorder actions.
3. Check in the bot.
4. Check out the bot and delete the Recorder actions from the main bot.
5. Check in the bot.
6. Export the bot.

What's new and changed in each product

Navigate to the following pages for details on all the updates (what's new, changed, fixed, and limitations) in each product:


RPA Workspace v.28 release
CoE Manager v.28 release
AARI v.28 release
IQ Bot and Document Automation v.28 release
Bot Insight v.28 release