May 2022

31 May 2022

What's New

Reusable Components Views via UiPath Insights Integration

As part of the UiPath Automation Hub - Insights Cloud integration, you now have access to a set of views around the Reusable Components managed in Automation Hub. They're available in the Automation Ideas explore, and they focus on the main details of the reusable components, the categories and applications referenced in the component profile, the versions, as well as information about the author, the curator, and the updater of the component.

Using this information, you can create custom dashboards that answer business questions like:

How many automations are using components?

What is the distribution of components by type?

How many downloads does each component have?

How many components are pending a review?

Edit Idea API

The Edit Automation API call enables Open API users to edit or update a specific idea from Automation Hub.

This endpoint works similar to the POST idea-from-schema endpoint, where you need to first use a GET call ( /automations/{automationId}/schema) to fetch the schema and then use the PATCH api for the actual editing part.

Even if the endpoint allows you to edit certain parameters of an automation idea, there's a specific set of parameters that can be changed only through their dedicated endpoints (an example is the Idea Status, which can be changed only through the automations/status endpoint).

Find out more info in the Swagger Documentation.

Improvements

• Automation Profile > Collaborators: Users added as Process Owners to an idea from the Quick View are now receiving the corresponding email notifications and tasks informing them about getting editing rights for the automation profile pages.
• Admin Console > Platform Setup > Categories: Deleting a category now removes it from a Component saved as draft, if applicable.
• Admin Console > Account > Settings: Mandatory Source Code setting is now removed from Settingssection.

OpenAPI

• GET Questionnaire schema call can now return assessments from a specific category.
• plain_text_conversion=true has been added. This parameter helps you view the text fields from the Open API responses in plain text, instead of the Rich Text Format they're currently in. This reduces the amount of parsing needed to get the text fields in the right format.
• The COE alias can now be used in the source_type parameter for both the GET IdeaSchema and POST IdeaFromSchema endpoints - to get/submit CoE Idea data. The old parameter for CoE Idea Submission TD is still being accepted and will work in parallel with the new one.

Fixed Bugs

• Submit an Idea: Wrong tooltip was displayed in the High Level Assessment for the This process has no expected changes in the next 6 months question.
• Automation profile page> Documentation: If a process was in the Business review or Technical Review phase, users with standard user roles weren't able to see the Documentation tab.
• Submit change request: Adding a collaborator with additional permissions in the Collaborators section, made visible the additional permissions of the user.
• Submit change request: The Error creating process message was shown when trying to submit a change request of an idea where one of the collaborators had access only to other categories than the one of the change request.
• Submit a change request: Users with Review an Assessed Idea permission assigned as part of a custom role weren't receiving tasks or email notifications when a change request was submitted.
• Automation Profile > Edit mode: Removing an application when there's one single entry in the Applications table was not possible.
• Workspace > Automation Pipeline: For automation ideas without a License Type selected on the Cost Benefit Analysis page, the RPA Software Vendor field didn't have any value shown in Automation Pipeline.
• Workspace > Automation Pipeline: Answers from the Automation Pipeline columns weren't visible in full on hover when the length of the answer exceeded the fixed width of the column.
• Workspace > Automation Pipeline: On 14inch screens, users weren't able to Filter on column Phase and select a phase, as scrolling to the bottom wasn't possible, to select Apply.
• Submit a CoE-driven Idea: Text boxes were turning darker on hover when filling in the detailed assessment.
• Submit an Idea: The dropdown was changing its position each time an additional option was selected, its position remained fixed when scrolling or the dropdown was opened in the middle of the input box.

9 May 2022

What's New

Change request management

With this release, we've added the Change request management feature for ideas and automations. The change request is particularly useful for small changes that do not require a completely new automation. Find out more about this feature in Submit a Change Request.

• Users with the permission to Submit a change request can create a request from any automation idea. Collaborators with the Submit a change request for an idea or automation collaborator permission assigned can create a change request only for the ideas or automations for which they are a collaborator.

• Users who have edit rights for the Change Request profile, can decide to open up additional assessments for the change request.

UiPath Automation Hub and UiPath Insights Cloud integration (General Availability)

This new integration allows you to:

• Get started quickly with a set of pre-built dashboards, ready to be customized as you see fit.
• Keep stakeholders and sponsors informed on your automation program performance with consistent and schedulable reports.
• Track your automation opportunities pipeline and take action quickly.

• Encourage the growth of the automation program by understanding who and where employees are contributing.

  To learn more about this integration check out the Automation Hub - Insights Cloud overview page.

Open API updates

• PUT App Inventory API call is now available to add or edit application entries in bulk. To delete applications, you can use the new DELETE appinventory endpoint.
• PUT Categories is now available to create, update or delete categories from your tenant in bulk.
• POST idea-from-schema endpoint is now available to submit any type of idea to Automation Hub even if you have customized your assessment. The endpoint needs to be used together with the getquestionnaireschema API, which gets the structure of the live assessment (applicable on all categories).
• The GET Automations call can now also include Customized Detailed Assessment questions.

To find out more about API calls, check out the UiPath Automation Hub API Guide.

Improvements

• Admin Console > Platform Setup > Cost setup: Turkish Lira TRY is now available in the list of currencies.
• Admin Console > Platform Setup > Customize Assessments: New question type available: Date.

Fixed Bugs

• Workspace > Automation Pipeline: Even when a Process Owner was assigned a warning was displayed next to the automation idea name that there was no Process Owner assigned.

• Automation Profile: When submitting a Citizen Developer automation, only the last document was uploaded and displayed in the Documentation page although multiple documents were added by the submitter.

• Admin Console > Platform Setup > Customize assessments: In the Default assessment, the Add Option button is no longer available for the single or multiple choice questions that are not open for customization.

• Admin Console > Platform Setup > Customize assessments: The Validate function did not work properly on the High Level Assessment form in Preview mode.

• Automation Store: The submitter name was not displayed in the automation profile page.

• Dashboards > Cost Report / Planning Report: There were some issues with the search function.

• Explore > Automation Profile Page> Cost Benefit Analysis > Edit: An error was displayed when dates were selected in the Baseline fields and the form was saved without selecting the value for Final Ease of Implementation.

• Explore > Automation program > Citizen Developer automations: The label for Potential Benefit per employee now displays hrs/month instead of hrs/year.

• Submit a CoE Driven Idea: It was possible to add non-numeric values in numeric fields.