Spring 2024

Released on 05/31/24

In this release

New features, improvements and fixes

The following list consists of features, improvements and fixes that are relevant in this update.

New features

Studio
AI Agents

AI Agents in Bizagi, powered by Azure Open AI, are an innovative feature that revolutionizes process automation with Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs). Categorized by business units or projects, these AI Agents streamline repetitive tasks, significantly reducing errors and manual effort, and allowing you to focus on strategic initiatives that drive innovation and competitiveness.

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Implementation is easy with two steps in Bizagi Studio: configure specifics in the Expert view, then set up the AI Agent as an Activity Action within an AI Task.

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File Storage Trigger 

A new Trigger has been added to Bizagi, allowing you to connect your Dropbox and SharePoint accounts and automate actions, such as creating a case, in response to events in these cloud systems.

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Ask Ada
Ask Ada Dashboards

In Bizagi Apps, you can now store and manage the results of queries performed in Ask Ada. These results can be stored and grouped in customizable Dashboards that you can access even after logging out.

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Ask Ada – Export to Excel

In Ask Ada, you can now export tables and bar charts from the chat or responses stored in a dashboard to an Excel spreadsheet file. This enables you to interact with the data values generated by Ask Ada.

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Ask Ada – Collection filters

In Bizagi Studio, you can now filter information by individual attributes or by a collection of values per attribute in the Data domain configuration. This enables Ask Ada chat to conduct complex and flexible analyses of the data model.

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Apps
Tableau reports

Bizagi Apps now allows you to embed Tableau reports using a Data visualization control within your apps. In this way, the Personas can visualize and interact with the automated process data and drive better business decisions. Additionally, by implementing filters in your reports, you can organize the process data to best answer various types of business inquiries and requirements.

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About module

You can now check the product version you are using in both the App Designer and the App Launcher through the About module located in the user account menu. This provides you with relevant information about the current version of the software.

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Bottom sheet

In a published app created with the App Designer, the secondary content configured in the 40% column of the 60/40 layout now appears as a drop-down container at the bottom of your screen. This container is called the Bottom sheet.

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Data table control

Data table is a new Collections control in the App Designer editor that enables you to organize and present data in table format. You can fetch Dynamic data from selected Views, My Stuff, or Cases, or configure the columns and rows of the table with Static data.

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Common Actions

Bizagi has introduced common Actions in the Data table control. This development significantly improves business rule management and reduces the time and effort required to perform such Actions. Additionally, it eliminates the risk of potential errors when Actions are applied to a large set of rules, enhancing the overall usability and functionality of the app.

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Rule & Form Actions

In a published app, you can execute Rule Actions on the records of your Collection. Actions determine the options that can be initiated and executed by a Persona in your app. Additionally, you can configure Form Actions in Collections and Views to easily edit records.

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Inner layout

Inner Layout is a feature in the App Designer that enables you to configure columns and rows within the main containers of your app, allowing for more versatile designs. It empowers you to utilize the configured columns and rows to distribute your Controls in a unique manner.

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Improved Actions

New endpoints have been added to the OData API, providing more options for working with your process data.

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Detailed inbox

Detailed inbox is another type of inbox that allows you to customize the content according to your needs. The Detailed inbox comes enabled by default in the newest version of Bizagi, and its goal is to provide you with a more modern and intuitive view to use the inbox in the Bizagi mobile app on iOS and Android devices.

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Build
Audit objects 

A new audit feature has been added to the Build Page. This feature allows you to compare the current and past versions of objects in Bizagi in a clear and graphical way.

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Default Assignment Method

For each project, you can now set a default assignment method for the Performers directly from the Build page.

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Customer Portal
GDPR user obfuscation

A new feature has been developed in the Customer Portal to enhance the protection of user personal data through an obfuscation process, in accordance with GDPR guidelines.

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Environment profiles

Environment profiles is a feature that allows the assignment and management of roles within an environment in Studio and Automation subscriptions from the Customer Portal.

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Engine
Administrative functions

Administrative functions are a new set of functions for the CHelper object in Bizagi Studio, enabling operations on a rule. These operations include:

Management Console Web (MCW)
Manage sequences

Sequences are counters that increment by a fixed value with each invocation. With this new feature, you can now manage your sequences in the Environment section, under the Sequences option in the MCW.

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Tracing – New

Tracing – New is a feature in the MCW designed to visualize recorded traces. This feature reconstructs the previous implementation to enhance performance, improve quality, and simplify the logic.

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Sync Files 

This development introduces a tool designed to facilitate the synchronization of data associated with File and Image attributes between Development, Test, and Production environments. With this mechanism, the complete and effective synchronization of all data types is now enabled.

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Webapps Restart

Within the Maintenance option, there are two windows: the Maintenance Window and the Full Service Restart. In the Maintenance Window, administrators can temporarily block access to the Work Portal to perform maintenance tasks that require no users to be active in the system. In the Full Service Restart, administrators can completely restart the service, temporarily taking the Work Portal, Scheduler, and Connectors services offline.

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Maintenance tasks

In the Case Maintenance tab, administrators can configure a time interval for daily case maintenance. This process assists in updating the closed case tables of the processes.

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Studio
Manage Actions

Bizagi Studio’s Experience Matrix has a new feature called Manage Actions, which allows you to create new Actions or update existing ones. This feature encompasses the creation and modification of both Record and Business Actions.

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Manage Views

Bizagi Studio’s Experience Matrix has a new feature called Manage Views, which allows you to create new Views or update existing ones.

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Main View from the Experience Matrix

In Bizagi Studio, you can now set the main View of a Persona directly from the Experience Matrix. This means that upon app generation, the View you have configured as main View for a Persona serves as their Home page when accessing your app. If a Persona does not have a specific View assigned as main View, the default Home page is used.

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Sub-Process Input and Output Mapping Type

When configuring a reusable sub-process in Bizagi Studio, you can define the Input Mapping Type and Output Mapping Type. These mapping types correspond to:
•    Input Mapping Type: copies the input information from the Parent process.
•    Output Mapping Type: copies the output information from the Parent process.

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Improvements

Studio
Local certificates support

Bizagi introduces enhanced certificate management capabilities. With this update, Bizagi now supports certificates from globally recognized authorities, local certification authorities, and self-signed certificates, allowing organizations to establish secure connections with internal services seamlessly. If you previously used a public certificate, you can now configure your settings using private certificates, eliminating the need to maintain public certificates unnecessarily.

App Designer
Multilingual improvements

In the App Designer editor, you can now designate a default language when creating or editing an app. This chosen language acts as the foundational language for multilingual apps. Moreover, Bizagi Apps now supports four additional languages: Hungarian, Polish, Japanese, and Chinese.

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Optimize app and update URL

On the App Designer home page, the Optimize app feature has been removed from the app drop-down menu and integrated into the Migrate app option. Similarly, the automatic URL update feature has been removed and integrated into the Migrate app option. These changes enhance the user experience and simplify the app management process.

Unique app name

In the App Designer editor, every name submitted for a new app is now validated to ensure it is unique across all apps and folders. This guarantees that each app has a unique name within its folder and all other folders.

Forms Facelift

Forms Facelift is a visual enhancement in Bizagi Apps that improves the visualization of controls and text. This upgrade includes changes to the font, as well as the size and shape of controls, for a better user experience.

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Apps
Charts’ Look and Feel

Charts generated from Ask Ada chat responses now dynamically adopt the secondary color of the app’s selected theme in the App Designer as their background color, improving data visualization. This enhancement applies to both bar and pie chart types.

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Visualization improvements in Apps

Bizagi Apps now supports both Landscape and Portrait views. This means you can expand or rotate your screen across various mobile devices, medium-sized tablets, small tablets, and mini desktops without needing to refresh the content or affecting the visual components of your published app.

Customer Portal
BPUs Consumption Report (available from September, 2024)

The Customer Portal provides a tracking tool for the BPUs consumed by an environment, allowing you to observe and analyze the utilization of your resources, enhancing decision-making on when to scale up to a more powerful environment, or which processes are the most demanding for the processing capacity of the environment.

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Management Console Web (MCW)
Custom Parameters

Custom Parameters are flags that you can add in the MCW to enable or modify the behavior of features in your subscription. These flags consist of a name and a value, and are configured in the Environment Options.

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Scheduler
Authentication Log Retention Policy

A new maintenance task has been implemented in our Scheduler application: Authentication Log Retention Policy. It is a systematic approach to managing authentication logs, ensuring timely retention and effective removal of outdated data. This optimization of storage space not only reduces privacy risks but also enhances system efficiency.

Studio
Traces to AppendBlob  

By shifting to the AppendBlob method of Azure, Bizagi has enhanced trace handling in cloud environments. This approach enables a more efficient, cost-effective, and easy-to-manage trace implementation. It also aligns the cloud method with the on-premises approach, creating a coherent trace management system across platforms. 

Usability improvements in expressions

The search for entities within the expression data model has been streamlined, thus improving accessibility in the entity value selector. The introduction of a filter in the selection tree now facilitates a more efficient search experience.

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Work Portal
Task Release by Administrator users

Administrator users can now release tasks from the Case Administration page if a user is absent for an extended period, making them available for another user to complete.

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Security Control for Cases Management

Security controls have been enhanced to streamline case administration within the Administration user interface. This enhancement involves dividing available permissions into three tabs: Case Administration, Cancel Cases, and Case Security. Within the Case Administration tab, permissions are further categorized into Cancel, Reassign, and Release actions.

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Live Processes in the Inbox

The left panel of Bizagi’s Work Portal Inbox now includes Live Processes, significantly improving access to and visibility of ongoing tasks. This enhancement is expected to boost efficiency and potentially elevate productivity levels.