Automation Workspace v.33 release
- Updated: 2024/09/06
Automation Workspace v.33 release
Review what's new and changed, and the fixes and limitations in Automation Workspace for the v.33 release.
Bot Agent update
| Type | Details |
|---|---|
| New features | Generative AI package updates for data logging. |
| Simplify the debugging of complex, multi-level automations. | |
Configuration for RDP-based deployment:
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| Automation recording notification | |
| Number sign ( # ) in credentials | |
| Changed features | Automation recording details on the Historical page |
| Fixes | Check to ensure that the expired global cache embedded resource file is not deleted. |
| Generic error message is now displayed for if the automation recording fails. |
What's new
| Control Room, devices, and Bot Agent |
|---|
| Introducing
capability to delete unused package
versions (Service Cloud Case ID: 01921225, 01947723,
01947850, 01955753, 01970055, 01974608, 01971196) We now provide you with an option to delete unused package versions from the Automation 360 On-Premises Control Room. Deleting package versions that are not used in any of the automations enhances the security and maintenance of your Control Room. Additionally, it saves storage costs and simplifies infrastructure, ensuring that only the necessary and up-to-date versions are retained. Removing unused package versions | Delete unused package versions |
| New auto-download
of pre-built templates We have improved
the process of providing pre-built templates.
Pre-built templates are now automatically
downloaded and do not require manual intervention of
importing from the Bot Store. With this
enhancement, developers can automatically receive a
collection of pre-built templates in the Bot Store folder designed for common use
cases from Automation Anywhere. Note: The
automatic download of templates is
expected to start approximately after an hour of
updating to Automation 360 v.33 or if you
install Control Room with Automation 360 v.33
version. |
Enhanced
Automation templates
Note: If the templates
are already imported in the previous version (Automation 360 v.32) and you update to Automation 360 v.33, it will skip the update
process and not show the Automation Anywhere icon and the template description. However, you can delete
all the templates and re-import them manually
to see the description and
icon. |
Ability to create process templates To improve the process automation workflow and increase productivity, template and process creation has been enhanced. Process templates foster the process-first approach and enable rapid development of process automations.
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| Advanced debugging
(Service Cloud Case ID: 01798804, 01934630, 00770567, 01841968,
00475158, 01947636, 01958285, 01961645, 01971313, 02004039,
02108905) Accelerate developer productivity by simplifying
the debugging of complex, multi-level automations. Quickly
move through and troubleshoot nested automations, use the
call stack to track and navigate automation sequences, and
adjust variables while executing automations to pinpoint and
fix issues faster. Note: This
capability is available with Bot Agent (version 22.60.23 and
later) and Task Bot
package (version
2.8.0-20230530-152744 and later). |
| Schedule
API Tasks Create a schedule to run API Tasks at a specified date and time configured in the Control Room. |
| Additional
configuration options for RDP-based deployment (Service
Cloud Case ID: 02083153, 02102505, 02115078, 02114308) Use the
following additional options to configure RDP-based
deployments:
Bot Agent update required. |
| Add
number sign ( # ) in credentials (Service Cloud Case ID:
02108672) Device credentials such as username and password now support the use of the number sign ( # ) in Automation 360. Bot Agent update required. |
| Event
notification for automation recordings If the Bot execution recording is available, the status of all the automation recordings are now displayed as an event alert in the Notifications. Bot Agent update required. |
| Repository
partitioning Repository partitioning in Automation 360 enables you to segregate large-sized public repository into multiple manageable repositories. By segmenting high-transaction folders into separate Git repositories, repository partitioning maintains quick and reliable check-ins, check-outs, exports, imports, and other operations, even as your repository size expands. |
| ACC -
Process automations widget The ACC homepage now provides a new widget called the Process automations as part of the Operations section. Users with the required permission can view this widget on the ACC homepage to get the status of the various process automations. |
| Custom
announcements As a Control Room administrator, you can now publish important information or critical updates to all the users, which appear as banner notifications on the Home page. You can configure the custom announcement settings to specify a title and detailed messages. |
| Support
for private key JWT for OAuth This method of authentication ensures the service provider can validate the signature of the authorized client's request to obtain an access token. |
| Enhanced
appearance of the selected repository (Service Cloud
Case ID: 01975140) The Automation page
is enhanced with the following changes:
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| Packages, actions, and Bot editor |
|---|
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Generative AI
package
The newly added Response format option in OpenAI: Chat AI and Microsoft Azure OpenAI actions within the Generative AI package allows you to instruct the model to return the response in JSON or text format. |
| APIs and integrations |
|---|
| Connector Builder With the Connector Builder tool, you can now:
Note: This feature requires
an additional license. Contact your Automation Anywhere
account representative for more information. Test custom connector | Form data| View custom connectors | Download published custom connector |
| Set length
cap for filter execution list API (/v3/activity/list
API) To avoid unbounded queries that could impact
system availability, the maximum page length for the filter
execution list API |
The deprecated Authentication
APIs: POST
v1/authenticationand POST
v1/authentication/token are discontinued and
will stop working. To ensure uninterrupted access, update your
applications to use the v2 versions of the Authentication APIs:
POST
v2/authenticationand POST
v2/authentication/token. |
The deprecated User
Management APIsv1/usermanagement are
discontinued and will stop working. To ensure uninterrupted
access, update your applications to use the v2 versions of the
User Management APIs v2/usermanagement. |
What's changed
| Control Room, devices, and Bot Agent |
|---|
| Updates
to the notification settings Control Room administrators can now use the updates in the notification settings to customize the user notifications that includes email channel. |
| Status update
to the Code Analysis results The Code Analysis results column in the Automation window now contains an updated status called Critical. |
| Enhancement
to the OpenSearch authentication password The OpenSearch credential is now enhanced with additional requirements for generating an authentication password. |
| Update
to the Run wizard Starting from Automation 360 v.33 release, the Run wizard that is available on the Automation page is updated to provide all the options associated with running or scheduling a bot. |
| Failed or
stopped bot status The Failed or Stopped activities on the In progress activity page are now automatically moved to page. Bot Agent update required. |
| Hashicorp
vault's secrets engine path To access the HashiCorp Vault APIs, the Control Room automatically appends the default Secrets engine path v1/secret/data to the vault URL. Users can now configure a custom value for this path from Control Room from the External key vault settings page. |
| Upper
limit of the allowed IP addresses You can now set a maximum of 200 allowed IP address entries from the page. Previously the limit was a maximum of 25. |
| Disable
system-defined roles in the Control Room (Service Cloud Case ID: 01893618, 01956439) This feature enables you to have more control to manage permissions granted to a role and thereby helping you to address security concerns. |
| CyberArk
integration with Control Room using API
gateway You can connect Control Room with CyberArk (key vault) using API Gateway. This connection also supports the Client Credential Flow grant type from OAuth 2.0. Integrate Automation 360Control Room with CyberArk using API gateway |
Name
changes on the license
page:
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| Limit over
consumption of API Tasks There are rules enforced on over-consumption of API Tasks. Automation 360 licenses and Automation 360 components by license and deployment |
| User
delete alert notification An authorized user can send an alert to the user with Manage my locker permission or a user with View and Manage roles permission when a user who is deleted is the owner of a credential or a locker. |
| CyberArk
vault's virtual directory path It is mandatory to specify the key vault's virtual directory path. The default value of this field is /AIMWebService/api/Accounts. However, users can now configure a custom value for this path from Control Room from the External key vault settings page. |
| Enhancement
to new user registration link The user registration link provided in the user registration email is now set to expire after 24 hours to enhance the security of the registration process. |
| Automation
recording details The Historical page is now updated to contain the details such as name, connected device and the runtime information of the selected automation recording. |
| Updates
to Run with queue The wizard is now updated to provide additional options for processing your work items. |
| Client
credentials flow Client credentials flow is supported as the new grant type in OAuth connections. |
| Seamlessly
disable inactive users You can automatically disable users who are inactive for a specified number of days so that you can optimize your user accounts efficiently. |
| Control Room API updated to v2 (Service
Cloud Case ID: 02117970, 02127534) After updating to this release, the Authentication API will be updated from v1 to v2. Therefore, ensure that you use the correct version of the Bot Scanner. |
| Edit the
scheduled activity name (Service Cloud Case ID:
02115665) After you update to this release, you will be able to edit the name of the scheduled activity now along with other existing options. |
Fixes
| You no longer
encounter issues when you edit a bot in the Bot editor, the value saved in the Session name
field, conditional actions, iterator-related conditions is no
longer removed from the corresponding bot. Previously, due to an issue, the values were not saved in the bot for conditional actions, iterator-related conditions, and dictionaries. Service Cloud Case ID: 02145412,02148841 |
| When you create a
bot using packages such as Dictionary or Datetime and select Datetime to assign a
value, the selected values are retained, and you can now save
and run the bot without any issues.
Previously, when you tried to create a bot and selected Datetime to assign a value, an error was displayed, preventing you from saving and running the bot. Service Cloud Case ID: 02143704 |
| Fix for CVE-2024-6922, a
medium-security vulnerability in the Control Room v.32 and
earlier. The blind Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability described in CVE-2024-6922 allows unauthenticated attackers to access the Control Room HTTPS service (port 443) or HTTP service (port 80) and trigger arbitrary web requests on the server. These requests could potentially target internal network services and systems that are not otherwise reachable. The fix is included in all released versions of v.33 regardless of previous release notes. |
| When you create a
bot using
action, you can now view and read the dictionary
key values in debug mode. Previously, when you created a bot using the action, defined a dictionary variable and key parameter with "/," and when you used Watched variables in debug mode to watch the values of the dictionary variable during bot execution, the values were not displayed correctly. Service Cloud Case ID: 02103635 |
| You
no longer encounter any issues when you perform Bulk update
operations for any package to update the bots to the default package
version. Previously, when you edited a bot
in the Bot editor after the bulk package update to the default package version, some actions
displayed an error due to missing input values. This issue
was seen in multiple packages that have been
fixed. Note: The bulk update package is designed to function
correctly. While it might occasionally encounter errors,
it is not a consistent occurrence. In such cases, you
can update the package version manually
or make changes in the bot to resolve the
issue. Service Cloud Case ID: 01952411, 01998646, 02088302, 02085991, 02095325, 02101474, 02110626, 01990994, 01992484, 01984578, 01991720, 01983265, 01994192, 02048170, 02084881, 02113562, 02101748 |
| When you create a bot, use a table variable with column type as Datetime and no values defined in the Datetime column, the bot no longer fails with an error on execution. |
| When the Run as user associated with a WLM automation is deleted, the corresponding work item that is deployed on the device is no longer stuck in Active state and the correct status of the queue execution is now displayed in the page. |
| Any GIT
push failures that occur are now captured correctly in the
Audit logs with a valid failure
message. Service Cloud Case ID: 02102977 |
| When you update
to this release, the Automation Anywhere Control Room
Monitoring Service now runs without any errors and points to the
correct Java Development Kit (JDK) that is bundled with the
Control Room. Service Cloud Case ID: 02102465 |
| If there is a
trigger to start a bot and a user with
Bot Runner license repeats the trigger
event, the tasks are now queued and complete successfully
without any error messages. Service Cloud Case ID: 01997123 |
| The WLM
automation priority that would vary intermittently is now
retained even when the automation is paused or
resumed. Service Cloud Case ID: 02082170, 02098377 |
| You can
now configure the Control Room repository
without any issues even when the repository file path does not
contain the term Server Files. Service Cloud Case ID: 02003396, 02102222 |
| You can now
highlight and copy the name of the variable in the
Run
action of the Task Bot
package when the corresponding bot is in View
mode. Service Cloud Case ID: 02125390 |
| When you use the
Export filtered items option to
export work items to a CSV file, the number of filtered items
that appear in the interface now matches the number of items
exported in the CSV file when the Created On
date is different from the Updated On
date option for the work items Service Cloud Case ID: 02110291 |
| Deleting
activities from the alert table no longer causes any issues such
as memory outage in the Control Room. Service Cloud Case ID: 02108180 |
| When you update the Datetime package to version 2.14.0 from a lower version, it now retains all variables that were added when building an automation using the version 2.10.3 or lower. |
Bot Execution
Orchestrator API -
v3/activity/execution/{id} Endpoint
FixThe Bot Execution Orchestrator API endpoint
Service Cloud Case ID: 02098447 |
Authentication API -
v2/authentication Endpoint
FixThe Authentication APIs now function without errors when multiple calls are made in parallel. Service Cloud case ID: 02124633 |
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You can now rerun bots from the activity page. Previously, a user could not run bots from this page when the activity run now feature was enabled. |
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Users can now successfully create an OAuth connection from the Control Room Manage OAuth connections page. They can do this while integrating their applications using the REST Web Service package with OAuth 2.0 as the authentication method. Previously, a "Test connection failed" error message was sometimes displayed. |
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Users can install, allocate, and deallocate a license without any interruption. Previously, some of these activities could not be performed and a generic serve exception error was displayed Service Cloud case ID: 02119513, 02119599, 02119561, 02119576, 02119572, 02119570, 02119573, 02119586, 02119629, 02119632, 02119633, 02119644, 02119646, 02119645 |
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Bot deployments in queue are cleared even when the user who added the executions to the queue is deleted from the Control Room. Previously, the bots were stuck in such a scenario Service Cloud case ID: 02100420 |
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Audit logs display the correct time zone for scheduled bots of event type "Run bot deployed. Previously, there was a time zone discrepancy. Service Cloud case ID: 02094915 |
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Users are now able to pause and stop an automation from the In-progress activity page. Previously, they had to stop the Work Load Management automation from the View automation page using the Queue details. 02088588 Service Cloud case ID: 02088588, 02097849 |
| A user with authorized permission (Manage activity from user's folder and View Everyone's Activity) can now view Active bot runs from another bot creator user's private repository. Previously, non-admin users were not able to view other users private bot runs even with the View Everyone's Activity role permission. |
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Users now remain logged in to the Control Room even when multiple tabs are open. Logout occurs only when they explicitly log out or there is an idle timeout. Previously, when accessing the Control Room using multiple windows or tabs of the same web browser, the users were logged out intermittently from the Control Room with an error message. Service Cloud case ID: 02105467, 02132764, 02133776, 02129262, 02134700, 02135467, 02129337, 02132757, 02126864, 02136090, 02130715, 02136027, 02130087, 02131535, 02136254, 02135346, 02136824, 02130392, 02138010, 02136496, 02135668, 02136618, 02139924, 02135238, 02130392, 02142153, 02143447, 02144137, 02139792, 02144287, 02139516, 02140009, 02145743, 02146663, 02146696, 02142038, 02148157, 02147560, 02146638, 02137790, 02145195, 02148305, 02142153, 02149031, 02142991,02150072. |
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Users can now successfully create an OAuth connection from the Control Room Manage OAuth connections page that requires Client Secret Post authentication method. Previously, if the service provider required this, a Test connection failed error message would be displayed. |
| While transferring the ownership of a WLM automation, the help text that is displayed at the top of the list now provides the details of the various access and permissions required by the new owner such as the bot name, queue name, run-as users and device pool names. |
| When code
analysis is enabled on a folder and a bot with
missing packages is imported into that folder, code analysis
does not run for that bot. An error message is
displayed indicating the missing packages. The errors in the bot must be fixed before running code
analysis. Previously, code analysis ran on the bot regardless of whether it contained missing package errors. |
| If the
Assistant window is open and shows a
violation of the code analysis policy, you can delete the
actions causing this violation successfully. Previously, an error occurred, and the action could not be deleted. |
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When a bot deployment was in progress, there would an event that intermittently caused the associated packages or consumed resources to be deleted. After you update to this release, there is a check to ensure that the expired global cache embedded resource file is not deleted by cache cleanup job when those resources are being used by the in-progress bot. Bot Agent update required. Service Cloud Case ID: 02086266 Note: This fix is not available as part of
the standard installation. Contact your Automation Anywhere Customer Support for assistance on enabling this
feature.
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If a role is removed from OAuth connections, it is not automatically removed from a locker consumer role. Previously, If a locker was associated with a consumer role and an OAuth connection was created for that role, later removing the specific role from the OAuth connection also resulted in the consumer role being automatically removed from the locker. Service Cloud Case ID: 02125518 |
| After updating to
this release, you can import bots successfully to
any Control Room that is having
repository as a Network-attached storage (NAS) drive without any
issues. Service Cloud Case ID: 02131238, 02137797 |
| You can now
update Automation 360 to v.33 release without
any issues even if you are using the Microsoft SQL Server 2014. Service Cloud Case ID: 02141056 |
| If you have a
multi-node deployment, after updating to this release, users
will be able to access any of the active or available nodes
without any issues as the unused Database connections are closed
automatically. Service Cloud Case ID: 02127105, 02139317 |
| If the
functionality to record automation execution is available and
the automation recording fails due to any of the reasons, a
generic error message is now displayed correctly. Note: Ensure that you update the Bot Agent to an equivalent or later
version that is available with Automation 360 v.33 release to view this
update. Service Cloud Case ID: 02130216 |
| After you update to this release, the Packages tab is displayed correctly in the Compare versions page for the selected automation. |
| After
updating to this release, the value that you had saved in the
Session name field is no longer
removed from the corresponding bots when you
update the packages to the latest available
version. Service Cloud Case ID: 02141441, 02132782, 02140297 |
| After you update
to this release, when the .jar files are created by
Newrelic in the Java TEMP folder, the
older files are now cleared correctly. Service Cloud Case ID: 02134059, 02139628, 02147867 |
| When you update
to this release, the http connection timeout is now set
to 3 minutes that enables the Websocket to reconnect after a
connection timeout. Therefore, Bot Agent
devices that are connected to the Control Room
are no longer disconnected intermittently due to Websocket
connect issues Service Cloud Case ID: 02132374, 02143561 |
Limitations
| When you try to
check-in a bot, an error message is
displayed intermittently that is caused due to the
stale index.lock file bot being deleted
automatically. Service Cloud Case ID: 02101840, 02108394,02116666,01984944, 02129953, 02100625, 02121038, 02120628, 02123571, 02117517, 02132458 |
| When you create a
bot using Loop,
While, If, or
If-else conditions and add another
action after the conditional statement, the
values added in the conditional statement are not
retained. Workaround: When you create a bot and use Loop, While, If, or If-else conditions, ensure you save the bot after you enter the values in the conditional statement and then add another action to the Bot editor |
| The delete unused package version feature does not include packages used by templates or processes. If a package version is only used in a template or a process file but not in a Taskbot or API bot, currently, there is no provision that the system prompts and prevents you from deleting unused package versions in such scenarios. |
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In the Control Room, pages where pagination drop-down component are displayed, you select items greater than 25, 50, 100, or so on and click the right arrow (→) to add your selection. If the number of items you select exceeds the number chosen in the pagination drop-down, the drop-down menu and page number will not be displayed. For example, you navigated to the Update bot page to update bots to the default package version, selected 28 packages to move them to the right-side table, selected the table filter value as 25, and then navigated to the second page of the right-side table. You will see that the pagination drop-down and pagination number disappear. Workaround: Remove the selected item(s) from the last page to see the Pagination drop-down and pagination number. In the above example, you chose 28 packages to add them to the right side and selected the table filter value as 25. Now, on the right side table, navigate to the second page with three selected items (packages), and remove the three selected items manually for the pagination drop-down and number to appear. |
| In the option, any image file that you had selected in
the Company logo (Optional) field is
removed when you edit any other setting in the Email
channeland save the changes. For example, you had selected a file in the Company logo (Optional) field and the Secondary email language drop-down menu was set to None. Now when you use the Secondary email language drop-down menu to select French, the updated company logo is removed. |
| While creating an
OAuth connection using PKCE, you cannot provide a Client secret.
Workaround: Create an OAuth connection without a Client secret. Edit your OAuth connection and add a Client secret. |
Updates to the interface
| Automation Workspace |
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| When you Create a template from a process or Build an automation from a process template, the
Process template label now displays next to the
template title in the upper left corner:
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When selecting a custom or pre-built template, you can now click the Process tab to show process templates only. To preview a process and review its details as read-only in a new browser tab, you can click the Binoculars icon.
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