What's new

This release integrates RPA functionality in TotalAgility Quick Apps. Starting with TotalAgility version 7.11.0, a dedicated RPA API makes it possible to create, manage, export, and import robot workflows. For example, TotalAgility users can perform the following tasks:

• Select robots

• Show robot thumbnails for easy visual identification

• Automatically create the model as data objects required to pass data between robots

• Automatically select and subsequently map the data objects between robots or sub robots

See Quick RPA in the Kofax TotalAgility Apps Help.

You must upgrade to TotalAgility version 7.11.0 or newer and RPA version 11.4.0 or newer.

Use the OAuth server menu option in Management Console to view, change, and revoke OAuth secrets for token-based authentication. The option has three tabs:

• Kapplets

• Service DAS

• Synchronizer

See topics listed under OAuth server in the Kofax RPA Help.

To support OAuth token-based authentication, two commands are available for use in the synchronizer.settings file:

• oauth-client-secret

• oauth-client-secret-file

Instead of authorizing by username and password, use token-based authorization by setting a client secret.

See Configure Synchronizer access to Management Console in the Kofax RPA Best Practices Guide.

See also Start synchronization in the Kofax RPA Help.

Kintone is now a supported provider for OAuth.

See the topics under OAuth in the Kofax RPA Help.

See also Supported service providers in the Kofax RPA Help.

The following enhanced and new UI elements are available to assign licenses on RoboServers.

• Moved the button for distribution of license units among clusters from the menu to the main table listing the clusters and RoboServers. See the User's Guide.

• Added a new window and menu option to dynamically display the option for assigning clusters, based upon the licenses used. The menu option is either Assign CRE to RoboServers or Assign KCU to RoboServers. Configure RoboServers to distribute licenses automatically or manually.

  See the User's Guide and the Installation Guide.

  Dynamic license distribution mode cannot be applied to a High Availability configuration.

• Added limited license parameter -ll. See the Administrator's Guide and the User's Guide.

A new icon appears on the Robot toolbar. Use the new icon to:

• Expand the flow of selected steps.

• Expand all selected steps that contain flow lines inside them, such as Group, Loop, and Conditional steps.

See Robot toolbar in the Kofax RPA Help.

Use this robot step to calculate the key for a variable value. The value must be of a complex user-defined type, specified in a .type file.

See Calculate Key in Kofax RPA Help.

Use this step to open an application in the Recorder View with a single message from the selected email folder.

See For Each Email in the Kofax RPA Help.

Use this step to iterate over all entries (files, directories, and other objects) in a directory. Although you can nest Iterate Directory steps, programming recursive or infinite loops will not work.

See Iterate Directory in the Kofax RPA Help.

Use this step to return a value from a robot. See Output Value in the Kofax RPA Help.

Find and delete database values using the new Find in Database and Delete from Database steps.

See Find In Database and Delete From Database in the Kofax RPA Help.

If a scheduled Kapplets execution fails, the following new options are available:

• Pause if failed

• Pause if timed out

• Pause if finished with error

For details about these new options, see Schedules in the Kofax RPA Help.

With this upgrade, you can configure SSO authentication for Kofax RPA Document Transformation. See Document Transformation driver.

For authentication setup, see Configure Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication in the Kofax RPA Installation Guide.

Users with administrator permissions can create a new project and select a repository, then use the new button Delete selected objects to remove objects from being synchronized. This new button becomes active when you select the Read-only option.

See "Create New Project" in Projects in the Kofax RPA Help.

Use the Finder Updater Tool to modify finder names by searching and replacing the names for all robots in a project. Also, use this tool to migrate robots from Internet Explorer to Microsoft Edge.

See Finder Updater Tool in the Kofax RPA Help.