Kofax RPA 11.2.0 introduces the robot documentation functionality that enables you to generate an overview of your robots, including the structure of the robots and the actions that they perform. This capability is helpful when you need to examine the sequence of actions that your robots perform and share the technical details about your robots such as their dependencies on other robots, snippets, remote devices, and so on. You can save and print the generated documentation.

For more information, see "Robot documentation" in Help for Kofax RPA.

New "Applications usage" graphs in Kofax Analytics for RPA provide application and URL usage information by robots as well as tags assigned to robots. The "Applications usage" graphs can simplify reuse of robot components across projects and reduce steps and complexity of sharing robot components across an organization.

For more information, see Kofax Analytics for RPA > RPA views > Usage in Help for Kofax RPA.

Depending on the used license (CRE or KCU), the report automatically shows either CRE or KCU license usage information.

For more information, see "Kofax Analytics for RPA views" in Help for Kofax RPA.

Starting with version 11.2.0, the Kofax RPA product and the entire documentation set are translated into the French language.

The following improvements are introduced to Design Studio.

Ability to concurrently execute robots

Multiple Basic Engine Robots can execute in Debug mode at the same time. The robot that has the execution privilege in Design mode can also run in Debug mode at the same time, so you can switch between the two modes. Only one Basic Engine Robot at a time can have the privilege to execute in Design mode.

For more information, see Robot Building > Get Started in Help for Kofax RPA.

Ability to leave comments on selectable items

In Robots, you can write comments for selectable items in the automation workflow, such as steps, Group steps, variables, finders, input types, conditional branches, and so on.

Ability to create new Robot from Call Robot step

You can create a new Robot from a Call Robot step by clicking Create New in the Robot drop-down list. If you are creating a new Robot after specifying the values and mappings for the Basic Engine Robot, the new robot will inherit these properties.

Ability to pass dynamic mapping to static device

If a dynamic mapping is specified for a Call Robot step in the Required Devices property of the Basic Engine Robot, and the device has previously been connected to, this dynamic mapping can be passed to a static device. In other words, if the device is previously connected using the dynamic mapping, in the Devices pane in the Robot, you can select to use a static device and reuse the connection.

For more information, see Robot Building > Reference to Automation Device > Notes in Help for Kofax RPA.

Ability to go to step location

In the Robot editor, a new button is added on the toolbar that opens a dialog box where you can paste the step location code to go directly to the step or copy the step location code. The location code can be copied from the Log view > Robot messages section in the Management Console.

For more information, in Help for Kofax RPA, see:

• Robot Building > Edit Robot > Editor

• Management Console > Management Console Configuration and User Interface > Log view

Help links added to elements

Various elements in Robots, such as steps and settings in the Attributes pane, now include case-sensitive help icons.

Display of search results enhanced

The text search results are grouped into a list and the current search result is highlighted in the robot graph. When you scroll down the items in this list, the highlight moves in the robot graph respectively. If the found text is not visible, the expand button of the component containing this result is highlighted.

For more information, see Design Studio > Design Studio User Interface > Toolbar in Help for Kofax RPA.

Ability to add Browse step without execution

In Robots, it is possible to insert a Browse step without the Robot being executed (called from the containing Basic Engine Robot).

Ability to find usage of some elements

In Robots, for Input, Devices, Variables, and Exceptions, you can use the Find Usage feature to find where they are used.

For more information, see Robot Building > Edit Robot in Help for Kofax RPA.

Ability to see dependencies for file

The new Show Dependencies option is added for Basic Engine Robots, snippets, and Robots. You can see all existing dependencies for the file, such as all types, snippets, and Robots associated with this file.

For more information, see Design Studio > Design Studio User Interface > My Projects in Help for Kofax RPA.

The following improvements are introduced to Management Console.

Ability to select time zone for cron schedules

For running schedules, it is possible to select a particular UTC time zone.

For more information, see Management Console > Management Console Configuration and User Interface > Schedules in Help for Kofax RPA.

Ability to send only mapped databases to Design Studio

It is possible to configure Management Console to provide Design Studio with the databases mapped to the project that individual Design Studio users have access to.

For more information, see Management Console > Management Console Configuration and User Interface > Settings > Design Studio in Help for Kofax RPA.

The following improvements are introduced to Kapplets.

Schedules support added

The Kofax RPA Kapplets main window now has the Schedules menu item that enables you to manage schedules in Kapplets. You can also create a schedule directly from a Kapplet.

For more information, see Kapplets > Schedules in Help for Kofax RPA.

Schedules restored by backup files

It is possible to restore schedules in Kapplets when you import Kofax RPA Management Console backup files containing classic (legacy) Kapplets.

For more information, see Kapplets > Kapplets User Interface in Help for Kofax RPA.

The following improvements are introduced to the PDF step.

Ability to sign documents

The PDF step in Robots provides SignDoc integration to create signed documents.

For more information, see Robot Building > Sign documents in Help for Kofax RPA.

New Insert Image action in PDF step

The Insert Image action inserts a JPEG or PNG image from a local folder to the selected page in the document.

Ability to save modified PDF document

You can add a step to save a copy of the document.

For more information, see Robot Building > Robot Steps > PDF in Help for Kofax RPA.

You can use the Extract Image step in any application opened by a Robot.

For more information, see Robot Building > Robot Steps > Extract Image in Help for Kofax RPA.

New text search options in Component finder

The following new text search modes in the Text Match (Regex) option help you perform more granular text search in found components.

• Text without descendants: Searches for text within one selected node element. Nested or child elements are ignored.

• Text with descendants: Searches for text in the selected node and all its descendant child elements.

• Tree: Converts the application tree into an XML and performs a full text search in the selected node including tags and attributes.

New Fuzzy Image Search option in Image finder

Fuzzy Image Search helps match images with different levels of similarity.

For more information, see Robot Building > Finders in Help for Kofax RPA.

You can specify groups in addition to users for validating the document in the Document Transformation browser.

For more information, see Robot Building > Robot Steps > Document Transformation > DT Browser and Action Steps in Help for Kofax RPA.

The Cloud AI step provides easy access to the AI functionality found in the three Cloud service providers: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. You can do the following using each of the providers:

• Translate text into another language

• Analyze an image and identify objects in it

For more information, see Robot Building > Robot Steps > Cloud AI in Help for Kofax RPA.

This step helps you access mail by opening one or more folders on the mail server and presenting them in the tree.

For more information, see Robot Building > Robot Steps > Mail in Help for Kofax RPA.

The following component and application actions are added for Robots.

Component actions

Select Option (for Internet Explorer and websites): Adds a step that enables you to select a single option or multiple options from a menu.

Application actions

• Execute JavaScript (for Internet Explorer and websites): Executes JavaScript on the current page.

• Open Link In New Window (for websites): Opens the selected link in a new tab in the Recorder View.

• Find and Find Next (for built-in Excel): Starts a new search in the specified scope and continues the search action started previously.

For more information, see Robot Building > Robot Steps > Application and component actions in Help for Kofax RPA.

A new action, Create Page, is added to the Browse step. This action adds a step to create a web page and open it in a new browser tab.

For more information, see Robot Building > Robot Steps > Browse in Help for Kofax RPA.

A new function, password(text: Text), which converts text into a password, is available for expressions used in Robots. This function is useful when a password is required to log in to an application during robot development.

For more information, see Robot Building > Expressions in Help for Kofax RPA.

The supported authentication for the Call REST Web Service action step now includes Negotiate.

You can configure the authentication method for this step on the All Loading tab in the robot configuration dialog box.

For more information, see "Call REST Web Service" and "Web Authentication" in Help for Kofax RPA.

Negotiate authentication is supported for use with proxy servers. When a proxy server is configured for a robot, the Negotiate protocol is automatically used if it is supported by the server.

For more information, see Robot Building > Access Websites in Help for Kofax RPA.

It is possible to auto-negotiate the preferred certificate type based on SSL.

For more information, see Reference > Basic Engine Robots > Configure Robots > Default Options in Basic Engine Robot Configuration in Help for Kofax RPA.

The new "Preemptive Auth" setting in the Call REST Web Service and Call SOAP Web Service steps enables you to pre-send the authorization header to accelerate the authorization process. When preemptive authentication is enabled, Design Studio sends the Basic or Digest authentication response before the server returns a 401 Unauthorized response.

For more information, see "Call REST Web Service" and "Call SOAP Web Service" in Help for Kofax RPA.