March 2023

23 March 2023

Event triggers as package requirements

We've tamed Orchestrator to identify the event triggers activities as package requirements at process-creation time. Associate them to an Integration Service connection, and make further configurations to comply with your business needs, all for the greater good of triggered automations.

Read more about event triggers and learn how to configure them them.

22 March 2023

Live streaming and remote control

Remote debugging of job executions is now a friendlier affair with the help of our new one-stop-shop solution: live streaming and remote control. This allows you to watch an unattended execution while it is happening, and, if problems arise and debug is needed, to take remote control of the execution and try to fix it.

This new feature helps save time when identifying and resolving issues, and it reduces the number of manual interventions needed for debugging and unblocking unattended automation processes.

21 March 2023

Execution settings for Studio Web triggers

Studio Web triggers are now automatically disabled if the execution of their associated job fails 5 times consecutively. This action is available for time, queue, and event triggers, and is determined via API.

Note: it only applies to newly created triggers - existing triggers continue to behave the same.

This change brings with it a new alert that you can subscribe to: Trigger automatically disabled after failed job execution with the Fatal severity level.

Improvements

The Trigger automatically disabled alert has been renamed to Trigger automatically disabled after job creation failures.
Responses from calling the/odata/Folders endpoint now contain the folder type property, which is read-only.
The maximum allowed storage size for job input/output arguments will soon be changed to 1 MB. If you need any more than that, we recommend that you use storage buckets.

Important: This will be enforced in May for Community users, and in November for Enterprise users.
Webhook events for jobs and queue items now include more properties:
- SpecificPriorityValue for job events
- ProcessingExceptionTimestamp and CreatorUserId for queue item events

Bug fixes

Editing a postpone date for a queue item used the UTC value instead of the tenant time zone value.
Job execution video recordings were not deleted after 7 days, per our retention period.

14 March 2023

New date formatting library

We have switched to a new date and time formatting library, aiming to provide more unity around formats across locales. While this change has no impact on your experience whatsoever, you might notice the following improvements as compared to our previous library:

Date and time formats are now consistent across all locales, i.e. the same digit/letter combination is used throughout. For example, the English 2/24/2023, 4:48:25 PM is displayed as 2023/2/24 16:48:25 in Japanese, whereas you would see 2022年7月5日 09時20分37秒 before this change.
The elapsed time in seconds is now displayed as a precise number rather than an estimate, i.e. 10 seconds ago instead of a few seconds ago.

8 March 2023

Time triggers calendar update

We have removed the restriction to only create non-working days calendars on time triggers that had the same time zone as the tenant they belong to. From now on, any calendar you add to a trigger is interpreted as being aligned to the trigger's time zone.

6 March 2023

Exporting jobs grids

Ever wanted to create dashboards and metrics based on your jobs data? Nothing stands in your way, as you can export all of your job reports from the current folder and download them to your machine. Read more about Exporting grids.

See permission information

As an administrator, when creating or editing roles, you can now check what areas each permission controls. The information is displayed in a tooltip when you hover over the checkbox for a permission.

This can help you broadly decide if a permission is needed or not, judging by the Orchestrator areas to which it allows access.

Serverless jobs news

Serverless jobs and test case executions now provide details on the robot size and consumed robot units.

1 March 2023

Host feed changes

The URL of the official host feed for packages will be changed to https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/uipath/Public.Feeds/_packaging/UiPath-Official/nuget/v3/index.json, and the Myget feed will be deprecated. This change will be applied in one week for Community users, and two weeks for Enterprise users.If you are using a firewall, make sure to addhttps://pkgs.dev.azure.com to the allow list. Otherwise, you will no longer be able to download official UiPath libraries.Update - 1 March 2023: For Enterprise users, the target date for this change has been pushed to 27 April.

Video job recording

You can now benefit from an extra layer of efficiency when troubleshooting jobs. This is due to our new video recording feature, which is available at the process level for all unattended executions (currently only available as preview).You can choose to either record all jobs or only those that are failed, and you have access to these recordings for up to 7 days.The feature is only available for Automation Cloud Robots - Serverless at the moment, but will shortly be enabled for Automation Cloud Robots - VM as well.

The release of this feature brings about a change in the existing screenshot option: it is now available to all users, not only to those on the Enterprise plan.