Release Notes

• Library RPA.Hubspot (#740): Deprecate keyword Auth With API Key in favor of Auth With Token. (read how to generate one with Private Apps)

• Library RPA.Email.Exchange (#736): Fix token auto-refresh for single-tenant Client apps.

• Added native OAuth2 support (#706) with the following keywords:
  • Generate OAuth URL
  • Get OAuth Token
  • Refresh OAuth Token

Available in libraries:

• RPA.Email.Exchange (#604)
• RPA.Email.ImapSmtp (additional keyword Generate OAuth String)
• RPA.MFA (#658)

Check the updated OAuth2 E-mail sending Portal example on: https://robocorp.com/portal/robot/robocorp/example-oauth-email

• Library RPA.Browser.Selenium (#710): Fix bug with auto_close=${False} param when importing the library, which still had the browser closed at the end of the session. (now it’s left open if such parameter is set to False)

• Library RPA.Slack (#711): New keyword Slack Raw Message adds support for blocks message property by allowing user to set message dictionary.
• Library RPA.Excel.Files (#712): Add new keywords for the library. List of new RPA.Excel.Files keywords (supported only on .XLSX format):
  • Auto Size Columns (docs)
  • Clear Cell Range (docs)
  • Copy Cell Values (docs)
  • Delete Columns (docs)
  • Delete Rows (docs)
  • Hide Columns (docs)
  • Insert Columns After (docs)
  • Insert Columns Before (docs)
  • Insert Rows After (docs)
  • Insert Rows Before (docs)
  • Move Range (docs)
  • Set Cell Formula (docs)
  • Set Cell Values (docs)
  • Set Styles (docs)
  • Unhide Columns (docs)

Robocorp Workforce Agent UI v1.2.58 / Workforce Agent Core v6.23.3

The Workforce Agent Core received few minor bug fixes.

A good thing to understand about Workforce Agent is that no matter which execution option you are using; you are always running the Workforce Agent Core behind the scenes, and you can find the detailed changelog for Workforce Agent Core here.

• Library RPA.Windows (#693):
  • Keyword Get Elements supports now parameter siblings_only which filters for elements found on the same level with the first match. This is ON by default; set it to False for a global search, which retrieves all the found elements matching the criteria instead.
  • Keyword Get Value returns None when there’s no value to retrieve at all.
  • Fix sibling element searching in keyword Get Elements when there’s no comparison strategy identified.

Robocorp Workforce Agent UI v1.2.57 / Workforce Agent Core v6.23.0

The Workforce Agent Core version also has multiple improvements and features around the Windows Desktop executions. As well as major performance improvements.

A good thing to understand about Workforce Agent is that no matter which execution option you are using; you are always running the Workforce Agent Core behind the scenes, and you can find the detailed changelog for Workforce Agent Core here.

In our continuous effort to make the Control Room UX as good as possible, this round of UX improvements was aimed at the work item handling flows. The core view regarding these is the Work Data Explorer, where we implemented multiple improvements which reduce a lot of clicks and make work item handling flows and technical troubleshooting more streamlined.

• New search, sort, and filtering

  • Stay on top of what is happening with the improved search, sorting and filtering

• The work item side panel now stays open while browsing through work items

  • Reduced amount of clicks and streamlined the flow when browsing through multiple work items

• Work item actions added to the work item side panel

  • Retry, Mark as Done, etc. are now available in the work item panel

• Toggleable advanced settings for technical troubleshooting

  • You can toggle advanced settings to see more data about the work item at a glance

  • Quick access links to the Step, Step log file, Robot and Environment

  • You can click the eye icon next to the log file to automatically render it to the same view, making troubleshooting more straightforward

• Improved single work item view and direct linking

  • Get direct links to single work items, which will open in their own view
  • Pass work items to your teammates to handle in a straightforward way

Robocorp Assistant 1.8.5 released

Fixed the community Assistant install view as the UI elements there were broken

Get started with Assistant quick guide

Robocorp Assistant 1.8.4 released

Fixed the Assistant installation step to speed up the 1st run

Get started with Assistant quick guide

• Library RPA.Outlook.Application (#687): Fix pywintypesXX.dll errors.

• Library RPA.Cloud.AWS (#683): Fix S3 List Files empty list response. Released in rpaframework-aws version 5.2.1.

• Library RPA.HTTP (#685): Add keyword Check Vulnerabilities which will now just check for OpenSSL vulnerable versions. Related article: https://robocorp.com/docs/faq/openssl-cve-2022-11-01

The example output warning message when keyword Check Vulnerabilities from RPA.HTTP library is called.

As always see Github pull requests (links above) for more information on the changes.

Robocorp Workforce Agent UI v1.2.54 / Workforce Agent Core v6.20.9

Workforce Agent updated to using RCC v11.30.0 that provides warning around the OpenSSL vulnerability, so that execution logs show if the environment contains vulnerable versions. We will keep updating the guidance page as we get more details and actions.

The Workforce Agent Core version also has multiple improvements and features around the Windows Desktop executions.

A good thing to understand about Workforce Agent is that no matter which execution option you are using; you are always running the Workforce Agent Core behind the scenes, and you can find the detailed changelog for Workforce Agent Core here

Robocorp Assistant 1.8.3 released

Update RCC to v11.30.0. This update will print a warning in case a insecure openssl version is detected in the environment

UI changes in the results view to clear out some of the more developer focused things like logs.

• New Intelligent Document Processing library RPA.DocumentAI, which is a convenient wrapper over the existing libraries:
  • RPA.Cloud.Google (needs rpaframework-google installed)
  • RPA.DocumentAI.Base64AI (moved from RPA.Base64AI)
  • RPA.DocumentAI.Nanonets (moved from RPA.Nanonets)

Provides the following generic keywords capable of working with all the engines above:

• Init Engine
• Switch Engine
• Predict
• Get Result

Portal example: GitHub | Portal

Warning

This is a breaking change! Two DocumentAI related libraries have moved, thus the importing location is changed now:

• RPA.Base64AI -> RPA.DocumentAI.Base64AI
• RPA.Nanonets -> RPA.DocumentAI.Nanonets

We have released an update today with improvements to many features, including Workforce, Assistant, and the new Audit Log. The new additions should help with managing operations involving a number of self-hosted environments, and addressing needs around compliance and governance.

Environment management updates

• Environment API is now available and can be accessed through the API helper in the Control Room
• Many new endpoints to manage environments and environment groups
• Opens up use cases around custom infrastructure configurations and monitoring

• Environment pages have been redesigned
• Environment listing and environment views now include a lot more data
• Added CPU, Memory, and Storage usage statistics and graphs
• Added tabs about Step runs, Groups and Processes to give more visibility around where the environments are used

Assistant updates

• Assistants now support configuring Vault access permissions
• The ability to control Assistant's access to read and/or write vault secrets has been added to the UI

Audit Log updates

• Export as CSV feature has been added to the Audit Log
• Administrators can now download Audit Log data as .CSV based on the selected filters
• The file will be generated in the background, and will be available for download afterward

This update to Automation Studio fixes a critical bug that prevented running Robots on certain Windows machines, but also brings some quality of life improvements.

Features

• Variables returned from keywords and assigned in FOR loops can now be auto-completed

Updates

• Invalid environments for Robots are automatically removed and re-downloaded
• Reduced execution time for Robots within Automation Studio

Bugfixes

• Fatal errors when running are correctly shown instead of getting stuck in "Starting Robot" view
• Dragging multiple elements out of the tree correctly deletes all of them

Features

• New user guide for Automation Studio in Robocorp Docs
• Release notes now shown when an update is available
• File and folder picker for keywords that expect paths
• Images in the run results can be shown as full-size

Updates

• Upload to Control Room shows more information when replacing robots
• Improved scroll bars on Windows, and various related layout fixes
• User keyword arguments are now validated in case of invalid values
• Variable blocks supported in conditionals

Bugfixes

• Double spaces in tasks and user keywords behaved unexpectedly
• Errors in conditionals not always shown in run results
• FOR loop values and variables were sometimes mixed up
• IF statements sometimes moved a keyword into the conditional
• String literals sometimes incorrectly shown as Variables
• Double context menus for variables
• Wrong path shown in New Robot dialog when project name already exists
• Literals with hash sign highlighted as comment in code editor

• Library RPA.MSGraph (#669): Fix bugs in listing SharePoint files and in keywords not supporting Drive objects. Replace parameter drive_id with drive throughout library, this is a breaking change for this library.