Changelog

Our new navigation system makes it easier and faster to move between workspaces and environments:

- Faster Navigation: Jump between workspaces and environments with fewer clicks. Integrated with Workato Orchestrate, with more products coming soon.
- Color-Coded Environments: Distinct colors for each environment help prevent accidental changes in Production.
- One-Click Theme Switching: Easily toggle between light, dark, or system themes from your profile.
- Future-Ready Design: Scales with new products and features for seamless discovery and navigation.

Workato introduces Dashboard Filters for Insights, which bring dynamic, interactive reporting. This allows users to put more focus on specific projects, time periods, or workflows with a simple click:

• Instant Data Slicing: Filter dashboards effortlessly without any query knowledge.
• Contextual Views: Default filter values ensure dashboards start with the right context.
• Empowered Exploration: Pre-set filter groups let viewers zoom into specific teams, dates, or workflows.
• Seamless Comparisons: Container-level filters make comparing date ranges effortless.

Filter Group is available in the components panel in Insights.

We are excited to announce the release of OPA 26.0, which introduces a unified package for enhanced compatibility and bug fixes to improve connectivity:

• Unified Package for All Data Centers:A single package now supports all data centers globally. Previous packages with region-specific suffixes (-eu, -sg, -jp, -au) will continue to work but are no longer published.
• Windows FTP Fixes: Addressed bugs affecting compatibility with Windows-based FTP servers, ensuring smoother and more reliable file transfers.

Thank you to the OPA/SAP team and everyone who contributed to this release!

Learn more in our On-prem Agent Version documentation.

Workato now supports Client Credentials-based authentication across all Microsoft Suite applications, including Excel and Outlook, enabling enterprise-grade security and efficiency:

• Improved Security: Application-level access eliminates user dependencies, enhancing data protection and reducing risk.
• Streamlined Maintenance: Simplifies setup by removing reliance on individual user credentials, lowering administrative overhead.
• Cost Efficiency: Optimized license management reduces costs associated with user-specific access.

Learn more in our Microsoft Suite Documentation.

We’ve introduced updates to make managing user groups and creating dynamic user experiences more efficient:

• Updating User Group Membership Upon Sign-In: Automatically update user group membership from identity provider attributes each time a user logs in.
• Current User Groups in Pages: A new "Group Names" pill displays all groups the current user belongs to, enabling interfaces to adjust dynamically based on group membership.

Learn more in our Workflow Apps documentation.

The latest Workflow App updates introduce new customization options and validation capabilities to optimize your workflows:

• Configurable Task Reassignment: Ability to reassign tasks can now be configured directly in recipes to fit various business cases.
• Required Checkboxes: Ensure compliance by making checkboxes mandatory for policy agreements or other forms of consent.
• Conditional Button Enablement: Buttons can now be enabled or disabled based on specific conditions. For example, rejections can require mandatory comments, while approvals may not need them.
• Improvements for Input Widget Validations: Now in addition to number inputs, you can also validate date inputs to guardrail users and ensure that you get only expected information.

For December 2024, NetSuite and Salesforce connectors have optimized data handling, while SAP SuccessFactors and QuickBooks see enhanced integration capabilities. SharePoint and Gmail address file and email management, and security updates bolster system integrity. Curious about these updates? Check out more details here!

OPA has been updated with the following enhancements and fixes:

• Kafka: Improved trigger throughput.
• FTPS: Added session resumption support for TLS 1.2.
• SAP: Fixed duplication of IDoc types with custom extensions.
• SAP: Enhanced recognition of IDoc statuses for the Send IDoc action.
• Security: Updated libraries according to the OWASP scanner recommendations.

See the OPA release notes for this and previous updates to OPA.

Customized job reports now include validation and enhanced security. When a recipe or a job report customization is saved , errors are communicated through:

• A warning banner with detailed error explanation on the recipe overview page.
• An error banner within the job report customization wizard.

Additionally, datapills from masked steps cannot be referenced in job reports. Learn more in our Recipe Design documentation. Existing job reports referencing masked datapills will be unaffected.

New multi-select component in Workflow Apps allows you to easily select multiple options from a dynamic list. This new capability allows you to:

• Capture multiple selections with a single component
• Choose your data source: manual entry, data tables, or recipes
• Validate minimum and maximum selections based on your needs
• Process results in recipes to build robust workflows
• Use selected values to define page behaviour with data pills

Learn more in our Workflow Apps documentation.