Bizagi version 11.2.0

New features, improvements and fixes

New features

RPA: UIPath Bot

Bizagi now supports out-of-the-box integration with one of the leading RPA vendors on the market. This integration allows you to send parameters, trigger the execution and obtain the results of a UIPath bot. This enables you to fully automate your processes by delegating manual tasks to a bot. You can use bots previously configured and available in UIPath’s marketplace, and you can even program bots to perform a specific task that is relevant to your Business Scenario.

Out-of-the-box Excel Connector

The inclusion of Excel tools and calculations into Bizagi is now a reality with this feature. Bizagi now features a brand-new native Excel connector that can be configured to perform a sequence of reading and writing operations as part of a process. This allows you to delegate the Business Logic of your processes to an Excel file, reduce the overhead caused by parameter entities and to consider Excel tools as an actual part of your processes.

SQL Server 2017 Support

SQL Server 2017 is now supported. A fresh installation of Bizagi Studio when no SQL Server version is present installs SQL Server Express 2017. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 do not support SQL Server 2017. These two operating systems cannot use SQL Server Express 2017, and thus, need another existing installation of SQL Server to use Studio.

Delete processes

We have listened to the community and now the option to delete processes or one of its versions is now available out of the box in Bizagi Studio. This feature is available for both SQL Server and Oracle based projects. Once you deploy a process it can’t no longer be deleted.

Skip form validations

Until now, if you had a set of validations configured on a form you had to make sure all of them are met before being able to continue to the next task. Bizagi acknowledged that there are use cases where it is necessary to continue into the next task without meeting all the conditions. This feature lets you set up a form button that enable users to continue to the next task while ignoring validations. Evaluate wisely when and where you want to use this feature, for it may affect latter steps of your processes and compromise the integrity of your data.

New Features button

A new button is available on the help tab of the Studio ribbon. This new button will show you what new features and improvements are available in your Bizagi version.

New Bizagi Studio Pen Drive edition

A new Pen Drive edition has been created to let the users work collaboratively in a project without having installed Bizagi Studio. Bizagi Studio Pen Drive edition avoids the installation of Bizagi components such as the Standard Server Operation Service, IIS, Scheduler and a Database.

Multifactor Authentication

Our new multifactor authentication allows enforcing extra security when users log into Bizagi by requesting the user’s password and sending a code via email or SMS.

New control for our forms. Multiselect control

A new control is available for your forms. When you have a “multiple to multiple” relationship between entities, this new control enables users to select multiple options of one entity relating them to the other to select multiple options at once. With this control, the complexity of the forms can be reduced, enhancing the end user experience.

New control for our Queries: Multiselect Combo control

A new control is now available for your query forms. It shows a Multiselect drop-down list, in which you can select multiple records at once. Instead of making multiple queries to obtain the information you were looking for, now you can get this data in a single search.

New CHelper function to display alerts on form validations

Bizagi features a new CHelper function that displays a pop-up window that can only be dismissed when clicking the close icon. With this function you can make sure your users are aware of a specific situation before continuing with their work. This function provides a better experience for displaying validations. The traditional CHelper function: Throw Validation Error, is shown as a small rectangle on the bottom of the screen which can be easily missed.

Download BPUs Report

For Usage -based licensing, download a report of your BPUs usage directly from the Admin menu in the Work Portal. This report is generated in PDF format.

Send notifications for plans

When creating activities in a Plan, you can include the option to notify to the allocated user when the task has been assigned. If the option is enabled, the assigned user or their delegate will receive an email informing the allocation of the activity.

Improvements

• The Values menu in the Entities view is now available for Parameter and Virtualized Master entities only. Our LDAP authentication configuration journey has been improved by making some options more visible and changing texts and descriptions.
  http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?importing_users.htm
• Our LDAP authentication configuration journey has been improved by making some options more visible and changing texts and descriptions.
  http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?importing_users.htm
• Our installation wizard now uses lighter colors to make it more user friendly.
  http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?install_bizagi_bpm_suite.htm
• We have enabled the option to delete objects even when they have been deployed. Objects deleted are marked to ensure that the object is set as deleted in the target environment.Users can now change the name of objects, even after they have been deployed: processes, applications, entities, forms.Delegates are now cc’ed in Task Notification, Abort Notification and Task Alarm Notifications.The Import tool of the Advanced deployment now generates logs with information to easily identify errors and problems during the package import.
  http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?automation_advancedd_ui.htm
• Bizagi will now generate its Excel files in the .xlsx extension. Bizagi will still support the .xls extension, but it is no longer the default Excel extension.
• Users with permissions to manage Parameter entities can now localize them from the Work Portal. Previously, only users with Multilanguage authorization enabled were able to localize entities. We have improved the information displayed for assignees on the Work Portal: The tooltip displayed when hovering over a person has been enhanced to include their full name, email address, profile picture and tasks associated.

http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?pending_activities.htm

• The pagination bar of the Inbox in the Work Portal has been repositioned below the last case of the list, to improve its visibility and the navigation experience.
  http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?work_portal_interface.htm
• We have included the “Exact search” property in the Search control to tailor how Bizagi yields search results on search controls.ç
  http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?search_form.htm
• Updated JQuery version. Bizagi now supports JQuery version 1.12.3
• Collapse sidebars option in Preferences The preferences menu of the Work Portal now features a new tab where end users can configure their display options. In this section users can choose the behavior of the Work Portal’s sidebars: whether expanded or collapsed by default.
  http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?main_menu.htm
• The Back button on the BAM has been improved to redirect to the BAM case summary instead of the Inbox, when entering a case of the BAM’s results.Email tasks on Live Processes can now be configured to send the copies in CC and/or BCC. Previously, this option was not available. 
  http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?cloud_livep_create.htm
• A read only mode is now available for Live Processes that have been promoted to Pilot or Published. You can now view and navigate the diagram, see their activity forms and see the configuration of the emails. Previously, you were able to see the process diagram.
  http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?cloud_livep_manage.htm
• Administrators can now copy the permissions over cases with Case Security from one user to another, for a specific workflow.
  http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?casesecurity_wp.htm
• Bizagi now gives you the possibility to Cancel (invalidate) all cases of a single Workflow at the same time. This feature is enabled for development and testing environments and it is especially useful as the user’s Inbox grows. Previous versions enabled cancelling ten by ten.
  http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?cases_administration.htm
• Now text controls allow HTML code entered by end users.Now you can change the Login page logo directly from the theme builder just like you can change the logo of the Work Portal.
  http://help.bizagi.com/bpm-suite/en/index.html?configuring_a_pre-defined_them.htm

Fixes

• Due to hyperlink incompatibility for automatic email subjects, will no longer be suggested for subjects in Email configuration.
• Reset policy button: To increase the overall performance, the reset button of Policies in the production environment, is now located exclusively within the Policy definition. It is no longer available on the policy hierarchical tree.
• Issues using the SaveEntity method to create or update users have been fixed.
• Some users reported errors when trying to update elements previously deployed, these errors were fixed.
• Issues using Export.exe through the command line feature have been fixed.
• There were problems when trying to access attributes set in the parent process’ scope from the sub-process. These problems were fixed and now you can access those attributes even if they were not persisted.

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