WorkflowGen 7.15.0
New features, enhancements, performance improvements, version updates and RESTAPICLIENT workflow app
WorkflowGen 7.15.0 is packed with new features, enhancements, version updates and performance improvements across the board for even better end-user, administrator, process designer and developer experiences.
A new button is available in action follow-up forms that lets administrators restart system actions that have timed out. There’s also a new configuration parameter that enables a form data value to be replaced when the IN value is null or empty. The ghost requests deletion frequency can now be set in units of minutes, hours or days, instead of days only.
The Administration Module now features new macros for system GUIDs and managers’ first and last names, along with a new function to define custom macros based on web configuration parameters. These new macros make multi-environment (development, testing, production) management easier, since tokens, URLs and other action parameter values related to a specific environment can be replaced by macros that reference web.config settings. Processes can be deployed on each environment without any other changes.
Version 7.15.0 also adds support for the .json file extension in the process data file editor. The Remote Approval module now officially supports Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019.
GraphQL has been updated to version 2.0.0 and Webhooks to version 4.0.0. Both include new queries, mutations and operations, as well as a new security configuration parameter to limit input file allowed HTTP URLs. Auth and SCIM have both been updated to version 1.0.0.
Read about Webhooks in WorkflowGen and Why GraphQL API is a language of digital transformation
New RESTAPICLIENT workflow application
WorkflowGen 7.15.0 introduces the RESTAPICLIENT workflow application, which allows you to call REST API endpoints to exchange information with other applications through HTTP requests, and can be used to build integrations with extendable applications (such as Azure services and Slack). It also allows you to call a REST API endpoint using application/json or application/x-www-form-urlencoded payloads.
The application supports the JSONPath query language, which allows extraction of specific data from a JSON response, similar to XPath expressions in XML.
One RESTAPICLIENT use case is to obtain an OAuth 2.0 access token and then create an Azure Event Grid topic. This can be done by creating a process that contains two RESTAPICLIENT actions. The first action gets an access token to use the Azure Resource Management API; the token is stored in an OUT parameter to be used in the second action to create the Azure Event Grid topic.
Head over to the WorkflowGen 7.15.0 release notes for all of the details and to get the installation packs.
