Release date

Notes

• Added Breakpoint management: 

• New UI for breakpoints with a menu, add/remove button, confirm remove all, refresh on changes, and follow selection. Persistence in CustomXML, recalculation after row insertion/deletion, and logic to skip unaffected rows.

• Email Actions update:

• The Find email action can search in explicit mailbox paths and supports loading custom folders in the form.
• Folder lookup now uses Outlook identifiers and supports different language variants.
• Reply/reply all functionality, a forward email action, recipient management, and UI elements for new email actions were added.
• Attachment handling for forward/reply/reply all and protection against overwriting variables were added.
• A cached Outlook application, mail wrappers, cleanup, and more efficient email loading were added.

• Exception Catching:

• Implemented exception catching, handler lookup, logging to column N, and Exception Action.

Bug Fixes:

• Space comparison fix: trimming of variable values was stopped, so a single space is not treated as an empty string.

• The Settings window and input forms during AD licence registration no longer stay globally on top, but only within MS Excel.

• Date picker and variable input support: The date picker UI now supports custom text and variables; the calendar icon opens a picker for entering a fixed date.

• Highlighting of the executed row after a run: the row is now always made visible, not only in debug mode.

• "Web services" function now enable to use AutomationDock AI Document Service for extraction of specific values from documents others than just invoices.

• "Web services" function now enable to use AutomationDock AI Document Service to extract information from invoices.

• Major bug Fixes

03.12.2023

• Improved “Excel function” action

Works now more in line with how standard Excel functions work. In addition, when in the Test mode, columns P-Z display how the function was derived

• Ability to call Automation Dock process from code

     ●   Example of how to execute a robot from VBA code:

Sub Test()

    Dim addIn As COMAddIn,result as string

    Set addIn = Application.COMAddIns("AutomationDock")

    Result=addIn.Object.runprocess("name of the backup")

End Sub

               ●   Function returns “OK” if the call was successful or an error message if an issue occurs (for example when an invalid backup name is specified)

25.10.2023

New features

• Licence management and extensions are now online and there is no need to use license keys any longer
• New Cloud repository

                ●   In addition to the local (ADB) data repository, users can choose to store their logs, backups, scheduler, user defined functions and global variables online

• Automation dock personal cloud is now available for users that are in the Cloud repository mode.  There users can view their log, execute and share processes with other Automation Dock users and more
• Virtual assistant

               ●   Ability to disable execution logging for testing purposes

• Scheduler

               ●   Ability to specify email addresses of users that should receive an email if the process execution fails

• Enhance Windows item detection – Automation Dock can now identify and work with Windows items that were inaccessible in the previous versions (items without a name or ID)

Action updates

• Value Retrieve

                ●   JSON value – allows for easy parsing of JSON values (see instructions tab for an overview)

                ●   Get clipboard – replaces the previous “Clipboard” function

                ●   Set clipboard – allows writing text to the clipboard

• Window Select

              ●   Ability to specify extended Windows detection (1-60 seconds)

              ●   Useful for Windows that open slowly or with a delay without the need to pause the step

• Item Select
  • Ability to specify extended Item detection (1-60 seconds)
    • Useful for items that open slowly or with a delay without the need to pause the step
• Process Redirect
  • Action has been removed

• Virtual Assistant process performance enhanced
• Windows clipboard Unicode support

• New "Email Process" options added
• Database-based "Global variables" added
• Backups can now be named

• Excel functions optimized and simplified
• Virtual assistant optimization

• Ability to run Virtual Assistant in secured (idael when running on a user desktop in office enviroment) and unsecured mode (ideal for virtual PCs)

• Added Java automation capability
• New "Text enter" mode added
• Virtual assistant auto-start function added

• AutomationDock database upgraded and optimized

• Performace optimization (execution speed is now 10+% faster)
• New error redirection column (M) added
• Tesseract option parameter added
• Ability to directly work with SharePoint-based workbooks
• New action: Web services
• New action: User input