OpenBots Server V1.8.1 Release Notes
[New Features]
- OpenBots Server
- Server UI Improvements
- Redesigned the icons for each available component in the sidebar.
- Adjustments were made to the pagination of grids in the Server to optimize them significantly, such as the cost of being able to review a particular page number. Further improvements are planned in future releases.
- Role Based Access Control (Security Module)
- The Security Module has been added to the Server and allows for the assignment of users to created User Groups, and the assignment of specifically permissioned Roles.
- Four default Roles are available in the Server, and additional Roles can be defined utilizing one of the default Roles as a base.
- Permissions can be individually configured for the listing/editing/creation/deletion/export of each entity in the Server where these operations are available.
- Features for which the user does not have access (either globally or in the current Area) will be disabled, and any attempt to perform these actions will result in a failure message.
- Areas
- Apps have been renamed to Areas for clarity purposes.
- Each Area contains an isolated set of User Groups reflecting the assignable default roles.
- Team Member Updates
- Administrator users can now change a user’s password from the Team Member details page. All users can change their own password.
- Machine accounts will no longer be displayed on the Team Members page.
- Alerts
- Additional Alerts have been added to the Server to notify users of the below critical system events:
- A Credential or Schedule has expired.
- The Organization storage is full/nearly full.
- The Organization minutes are depleted/nearly depleted.
- An Agent is unresponsive.
- Additional Alerts have been added to the Server to notify users of the below critical system events:
- Queue Updates
- Users are now able to view statistics around the counts of remaining/successful/failed items in the Queue and the average execution time from the All Queues page.
- Automations now record and display their average successful and failed execution times.
- Jobs Updates
- The All Jobs page now displays the associated schedule for each Job.
- The associated Business Entity and Work Item fields of a Job are now visible on its details page.
- Jobs can now be filtered by their Status.
- Distributed Locks
- Users can now see the Status of all locks on the Distributed Locks page.
- Credentials/Credential Policies
- Credentials will now display their associated Credential Policy in the Credential Vault.
- Credential Policies now include a specified rotation period. Credentials will automatically rotate when this period is reached.
- Organizations can now contain multiple Credential Policies and will be individually associated to Credentials during creation or editing.
- 5 days before a rotation occurs, a field will become populated specifying the upcoming password and an integration event will trigger.
- Users are able to manually trigger a rotation. This will result in the upcoming rotation password going into immediate effect or a new password being generated.
- Administrator users can now retrieve the Credential password and upcoming rotation password from the details page.
- The Credentials Vault can now be filtered based on Provider.
- Server UI Improvements
- OpenBots Server
- Users can now create Storage Drives pointing to external file stores as expected in the Enterprise Server.
- Additional added storage will now be properly reflected in the displayed UI values.
- The File Manager will now report the correct size for uploaded files.
- Email addresses will now be validated during send Email operations.
- Users are no longer able to configure their Drive size to below the current stored data size.
- Uploading an Automation of a version that has been deleted will no longer result in an exception.
- v1.7 Jobs will now properly have their end time set during job abandonment procedures.
- The Automation Logs Created On time will now properly convert to the viewing user’s time zone.
- Disabling a Schedule will now properly stop the recurrence.
- The Jobs table exported file will now properly reflect the displayed values.
- Pagination will no longer show for records under the reflected display amount.
- Automation Log images will now properly display their previews.
- Corrected an issue that resulted in Agent erroneously showing as disconnected.
- The list of Areas will now properly update when a new Area is created, updated, or deleted.
- A notification will now be presented to the user when a logout procedure is being performed due to timeout.