Document Templates: It is often desirable to generate different documents during the process. For example, this could be an order confirmation or an invoice. With the new document template feature you can do exactly this. To do this, you can switch to draft mode for document templates from within the Process Designer. These can then be used either by the users for export or during process design with a corresponding action.

Help Tour: To make it even easier for new users to get started with our software, a help tour has been implemented. You can start it via the global navigation. The help tour provides context specific information per page and guides people through the different functions that are currently available.

SQL Database Connector: Various customers have requested the ability to connect to external SQL databases. With this update this is now possible by providing appropriate actions. The following database systems are supported:

• Microsoft SQL Server
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL & MariaDB
• Oracle

Note: By default this feature is disabled. If you wish to use this feature, you must first enable it in business unit Administration.

Email Attachments: From now on it is possible to specify file attachments when sending an email using the default type email action.

Improvement of the Richtext Editor: To help you design your texts and document templates as well and easily as possible according to your ideas, the Richtext Editor has been enhanced even further. This new feature allows you to use text alignment, headings and other formatting.

Exchange Online OAuth credentials: Microsoft has changed the technical login process for accessing Exchange. This means that in the near future it will no longer be possible for linqi to log on to the online service with just a user name and password. To ensure that our customers can still use this feature, an Exchange Online mode has been implemented for Exchange access data.
Note: If you use the Exchange Connector with Exchange Online you have to change your connection to the new mode. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us here.

Performance Optimizations: To guarantee fast loading times, various performance optimizations have been implemented. Especially with slower internet connections, such as when using mobile internet, the loading times have again been significantly improved.

Advanced placeholders for SharePoint actions: For even easier work with SharePoint, new placeholders for SharePoint actions have been implemented. For example, it is now possible to query the ID of a newly created entry.

Improvement of the richtext editor: The richtext editor has been heavily reworked, improving handling and the ability to insert images into the text. In addition, it is now possible to switch the editor to a full screen mode, especially to write long text more pleasantly.

Dashboard Text Control: You can now insert text on dashboards in addition to tables, metrics, etc. In this way, you can, for example, display explanatory texts and notes for users. Here it is also possible to use placeholders to tailor the texts as much as possible to the person logged in.

Overwrite email recipients in test processes: To make it even easier for you to test your processes, it is now possible to overwrite the email recipients for test processes. This allows you to redirect all emails as well as Exchange appointments to specific recipients and thus keep all information within the circle of test persons.

Drag'n'Drop Download: Within the file preview, you can now drag'n'drop files to download them. For this you can simply drag the download icon into your explorer.

Graphic Tools: The process designer has been enhanced to allow inserting graphical elements such as swimlanes, lines, rectangles and text annotations. This new feature makes it possible to design processes in a clearer and more concise way, for example by grouping actions and forms according to actors.

Error handling in actions: It is now possible to include error handling in the process for actions with external connections such as SharePoint or Exchange. This means that if a third party system is not reachable, for example, you as the process designer can react to errors. This allows you, for example, to provide feedback to users, display a separate form, or even ignore the error.

Miscellaneous small UX improvements: To simplify working with linqi we have implemented several small UX improvement. For example, it is now possible to switch from the dashboard designer directly to the dashboard.

Drawing Area: A new form control is now available that allows users to perform drawings on open spaces or images. This can be used for signatures, for example, or to make marks on room plans, images and other graphical representations. Through the integrated feature, a background image can be inserted via mobile devices such as smartphone or tablet.

Improved Buttons: Form buttons have been enhanced to allow for better layout within forms. Multiple buttons can now be defined per button control, which are displayed next to each other. This allows to build forms with multiple buttons without having a spacing between the buttons that is untypical for forms. It is possible to define the color of buttons to direct the focus of the user accordingly.

File preview: PDF, DOCX as well as image files Files uploaded to linqi can be previewed directly within the browser. This allows users to find the right file faster or to find the necessary information.

Extension SharePoint Connector: The SharePoint Connector has been extended to remove duplicates when querying items as well as to specify a maximum number of entries that will be queried.

Multilingualism: linqi is now available in English and German.

Expansion of Exchange Connector: The Exchange Connector has been extended to provide our customers with more options regarding appointments. In particular, more placeholders have been implemented (appointment name, date, etc.) as well as the possibility to update or cancel existing appointments. To update an appointment, the ID of the appointment to be updated can be specified when sending an appointment. A new action can be used to cancel an Exchange appointment.

Performance and Stability Improvements: Several libraries have been modernized and updated to improve performance and increase stability. Mainly the user interface gets a slightly different look-and-feel and the email sending has been optimized.

Browser Tab Label: linqi shows in the browser tab which page is open (instead of just linqi for example [E] Process Designer - Example Process). This has made the navigation in linqi much clearer.

Dashboard Key Figures: A new control is now available for dashboards. This control allows you to display metrics on dashboards. For example, a metric can be the number of current requisitions, or the total of open investment requests, etc. By displaying such a metric, users can get an impression of current numbers with just one glance.

New "Process Reading" Role: A new role has been implemented in the business unit admin area which allows to open all processes of the business unit in read-only mode. This allows people to read a process regardless of the rights assigned in the process. This is very useful for admins etc.

Support to store elements on connections: You can now drop elements that have exactly one entry and one exit point on a connection in the process designer. This will interconnect the elements in this connection. This saves you from having to delete a connection first and then drag two new connections.

Default page size for dashboard tables: Within the configuration of dashboard tables, you can specify the default page size. For example, instead of 10 entries, you can always automatically load 100 entries directly.

Disable messages for follow-on processes: Within the Start Follow-Up Process action, you can determine whether users should be alerted to this process by a message. For example, you can start a process in the background without the users noticing.

SharePoint Online authentication with client ID and certificate: SharePoint Online can be accessed via client ID and certificate.

Parallel Processes: Through the new actions Start parallelism as well as Merge parallelism, several process steps and forms can now be executed in parallel. This allows, for example, several departments to work in parallel on one process. This is helpful for onboarding processes, for example, if several departments are to work on a status or process tasks in parallel. In this way, processes can be carried out noticeably faster. You can restrict access to parallel forms using the actions Assign parallel authorization and Remove parallel authorization.

Design Adjustments / Theming: We have implemented various adjustments to the interface to align and modernize the design across all areas. At the same time we implemented Theming, so linqi can be displayed in light and dark colors.

Multi-select option field: The option field control has been enhanced, allowing you to allow multiple selection in the configuration.

Exchange Connector: The Exchange Connector is now available. You can create Exchange credentials for it within the connection page. After that you have the following Exchange actions available:

• Send Exchange Email: Allows you to send an email via the Exchange account. Here you can also define attachments
• Send Exchange Appointment: Allows you to send an Exchange appointment. Here you can define the time period of the appointment in addition to the email data.
• Exchange incoming email: Allows to start a process when an email arrives in a mailbox. This way you could for example implement approval processes for incoming invoices or the like

Enable / disable features: You can now enable or disable features at the business unit level. To do this, you can select a business unit in the business unit Admin and select the Features button above. For example, you can disable the DEMIS Connector for business units where it is not needed.

SharePoint number of entries placeholder: A new placeholder has been implemented, which allows you to query the number of SharePoint entries found. Through this you can e.g. check if an entry exists etc.

Passing values to subsequent processes: You can now adjust the variable values of the subsequent process when starting a subsequent process. This allows you to pass values when starting a subsequent process.

Date with time: You can now define a format for date fields in forms. If you select the format Date with time, users can select a time in addition to the date.

Clear date fields: It is now possible to clear date fields.

Various improvement in User Expierence: In various places, the User Expierence has been improved by displaying more hints. For example, longer hints are now displayed if configurations are not yet correct, etc.

SharePoint Event Action: This new action allows to trigger processes when an item is created or updated in a SharePoint list. This way you could implement for example approval workflows, synchronization processes etc.

Expansion of SharePoint actions for documents: The existing SharePoint actions have been extended to now work with document libraries. So now you can upload files to document libraries etc.. For this you can still use the old actions, if you select a document library there you can select documents via corresponding placeholders

Check process state on next step: A new check ensures that when moving to the next process step, the process open by the users is the latest state.