Editing Activity Library Elements - Activities in the Activity Library can now be opened and edited in a single editing mode outside of a process. Uploading the changes creates a new revision of the Activity in the Activity Library.
References - Activities from the Activity Library can be added to a process not only as a copy, but also as a reference. Referenced activities can be updated at a central point, so that they can be updated in all processes with one click, see X1 Server "Upcoming Process Changes".
Activity Library Tags - Clearer management of the Activity Library by tagging the activities during upload. Tags can be created and assigned as desired.
Trigger Workflows in Activity Library - Triggers can also be uploaded to the Activity Library and reused as copies or references.
Support of BPMN User Tasks - In a Business Process Model elements of the type User Tasks can be inserted and used. Configuration of the User Tasks form is supported via a wizard. Activity parameter values can be displayed in the form and changed by the user at runtime. See also X1 Server User Tasks.
New REST Call Action Step - Access any REST interface by executing REST Calls with the methods Get, Post, Put, Patch, Delete, Head and Options. The REST call can be individually constructed and the answer can be processed.
New JSON Query Action Step - Detailed processing of a REST call response using a JSON Path Expression.
New Intelligent OCR Action Step - Improved, intelligent OCR text recognition with additional new languages Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Thai.
Graphical BPMN validation support - Business Process Modeler actively assists with graphical indications of errors and inconsistencies in the Business Process Model.
5.2
New Action Step "Excel Controlled Loop" - Allows to iterate over an Excel file within the Excel session. Column contents and iteration count are available as output variables.
New Action Step "Recalculate Excel File" - Recalculation of formula values of an Excel sheet or the entire Excel file.
New property of the Action Step "Write to Excel File" - Select to write the entered string as text or formatted as a number into the Excel file.
New Action Step "String Operations" - Allows to modify an input variable string
. String Replace - find and replace certain characters in the given string. String Trim - trim the given string at the beginning or end by a defined number of characters. String Left / Right - extract a part of the given string by a defined number of characters, counted from left or right
New Action Step "String to Array" - Allows to convert a string into an array variable by specifying the separator character within the string.
Workflow Finalization
- Finalize Block at the end of the Workflow. Allows to perform Action Steps after the actual workflow execution. Depending on the run result of the Workflow different Action Steps can be performed.
New property of the Action Step "Text Recognition - OCR"
- An Initial Wait Time in seconds can be defined, so that e.g. loading times of text blocks are considered.
Improved Analyse Package Handling
- Simply drag and drop or import the analysis package into Design Studio to open the related project and workflow. The Project will be downloaded from the server automatically if not available locally.
5.1
New Action Step "Math Operations"
- Allows to perform mathematical operations with up to ten connected input variables.
Enhanced Action Step "Text Recognition - OCR"
- New available languages Japanese, Korean, Chinese - simple and Chinese - traditional.
Export and Import of complete project
- Simply export and import an opened project via File - Import / Export Project. Export of a project creates a complete project file including the workflows. Import of a project overwrites an opened project.
Test Run Status dialogue
- When perfoming a complete process run via Run Process the Test Run Status dialogue shows the status of the run. List of finished activitys, their run result and the next activity. Run can be paused between every activity.
Workflow Revisioning
- Simply click on an activity in Business Process Modeler and go to Show Activity log to get a list of previous revisions of this workflow. Jump back to previous workflow revisions via download and replace.