45 posts tagged with "Release"

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.

Full-screen messages: You can now select in the configuration of the action Display message that a message is displayed full-screen. This will then be displayed very present with a corresponding icon instead of the form.

Disable breadcrumb navigation: You can disable breadcrumb navigation in the properties of a process.

Multi-select process nodes: You can now select multiple nodes at once within the Process Designer. To do this, you can hold down CTRL and drag a selection area in the drawing area.
This allows you to move multiple nodes at once.
If you have selected nodes, you can also delete several nodes with DEL.
In the minimap area at the bottom left, there is now also a button that opens a help that explains these keyboard shortcuts.

Copy Nodes: Once you have selected one, or more nodes, you can hold down CTRL and drag a node to copy it.

Form Escalation Levels: This feature allows you to automatically continue the process if a form has not been completed by a certain time. For example, this allows you to send an email reminder, authorize another person, etc. For this reason, the form values are also automatically applied should you redirect to the same form again after the escalation level (whether the same node or whether you drag the form into the process a second time). You can control these escalation levels through the form node context.

Wait Action: This new action suspends the process for a given period of time. This is very useful, for example, to implement resubmissions or similar.

New Action - Read PDF Form: We have implemented a new action which can read fillable PDF forms. This allows you, for example, to upload a PDF form in a form and then process it automatically with linqi. It would also be conceivable to read out a PDF form from SharePoint or from an attachment in an incoming Exchange e-mail. The completed fields are then available as placeholders for further use in the process.
For this action, you only need to define a placeholder that specifies the PDF form that will be read (e.g. from a file upload control). In addition, you need to upload a sample PDF once from which the fields are then automatically read out, which are then available as placeholders.

Improvement of load balancing behavior: Performance in a load balanced environment has been improved.

Azure Active Directory Connection: The ability to log in person via Microsoft Azure Active Directory has been implemented.

Connection Management: It is now possible to create connections to third party systems. Currently a connection to a SharePoint site is available here. The credentials you enter there are stored in encrypted form and are never returned to the frontend unencrypted. This means that passwords entered there cannot be read out again. Furthermore, it is possible to control access down to person level to ensure that only the right people can use access data.

SharePoint Connector: You can now create, update or delete SharePoint list entries. Three new process actions are available for this. The list data is retrieved from the SharePoint, so that the users can easily click together the configuration.

Improved process analysis: In the process analysis it is now possible to display the resolved placeholder values. For this you can simply click on the corresponding action in the process analysis and you will get the resolved values displayed in a side panel. Here you can see for example why a process has taken a certain branch in a process or how the SharePoint values have been composed. Of course, only persons with access to a process can also perform this analysis.

Process Variables: You can create process variables. These are values that you can reference again and again in processes, but also change. This is useful for configuring SharePoint Urls, for example, but you could also store and manage other values here.

Action Grouping: Actions are now displayed grouped by topic. This will become especially useful in the future when more and more actions will be available.

Action Search: It is now possible to search actions in the actions panel. For example, you can use this to quickly find SharePoint actions, etc.

Form Search: It is now possible to search forms in the form panel of a process. Over here you can

Performance Optimizations: The initial loading time as well as the loading of table values has been optimized.