We’ve just released powerful new features and enhancements to make your automations even better. Check them out!
Connectivity
Platform and Community Connectors Updates
Stay up-to-date on all the latest connector releases and updates! We’ve released updates for the NetSuite, OpenAPI, Azure DevOps and EDI Tools connectors, ensuring smoother integrations. Additionally, the Community Library has expanded significantly with 19 new connectors, including Lark, Delta Lake, and Cloudinary.
For more information on recent connector additions and improvements, check out our monthly connector blogs.
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Utility Connectors
Automate PDF Manipulation with PyPDF Library & IDP
The Python connector now includes the PyPDF library, enabling powerful PDF manipulation within your Workato recipes. You can now read, write, split, merge, and extract text from PDFs programmatically, reducing reliance on external tools and streamlining document-heavy workflows. This update also enhances integration with Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), unlocking use cases like document splitting, selective page processing, and keyword-based extraction.Â
Document splitting example.
Boost Performance with MessagePack Serialization for JavaScript & Python
Workato has completed the migration of JavaScript and Python connectors to MessagePack serialization format. This change improves efficiency and allows for handling non-UTF8 encoded data, expanding the capabilities of these connectors.
Maximize Efficiency with Batch Actions in the Data Tables Connector
The Data Tables connector now supports batch actions for creating, updating, and deleting records. This significantly improves efficiency and reduces task consumption by eliminating the need for looping in recipes. Create, update, and delete records in batches for more efficient task consumption.
Workflow Apps
Introducing Multi-Value Columns in Data Tables
We’re thrilled to announce a powerful new feature for Workflow Apps: multi-value columns! This enhancement allows you to store multiple values within a single column. Previously, forms with multi-select options, like those used for application provisioning or resource requests, often required a separate column for each selection, indicating whether it was chosen or not. This could quickly consume the available column limit, restricting the complexity and flexibility of your forms. With multi-value columns, you can now capture multiple choices within a single column, streamlining your data structure and making your apps more efficient.
Design questions that accommodate multiple answers, tag records with multiple labels for better organization, and filter records with greater precision based on specific values within the multi-value column. You can also use multi-value columns in SQL Transformations with Data Tables as a source.
đź’ˇTo get started, choose the “Multi-select” option when creating a new column and specify the desired value type. This update helps you build more powerful and versatile Workflow Apps.Learn more about how Workato keeps your data secure.
Builder Experience
New Recipe Widget: Seamless Embedding for Partners
A new Recipe Widget allows for embedding a streamlined view of a recipe page within another product via iframe. This widget removes non-essential elements while preserving core functionality. Embed partners now have even more control of embedding the recipe experience, while still maintaining their own navigation customer experience.
Custom Job Report Validation: Enhanced Security & AccuracyÂ
Custom job reports now include validation to prevent errors and security risks. This improvement ensures accurate configurations (e.g., alerts for referencing nonexistent data pills or incorrect formulas) and prevents the unintentional exposure of sensitive data. This is communicated through a warning with a detailed error explanation.
Operations & Governance
Workato Achieved New Compliance & Security Certifications
Security is at the heart of everything we do at Workato. We’re thrilled to announce that Workato has achieved PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider (v4.0) compliance, as well as ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certifications. Achieving these certifications underscores Workato’s commitment to protecting customer data and providing and maintaining a secure and trusted platform to support our customers’ evolving data initiatives and empower them to build secure workflow orchestrations for industries like financial services, fintech, e-commerce, and retail that process and transmit cardholder data.
And there’s more! Our advanced security capabilities—including Enterprise Key Management (EKM), External Secrets Management, and Virtual Private Workato (VPW)—give organizations in highly regulated industries complete control over the security of their data and ensure compliance with stringent security standards that require isolation of customer workloads and data.
Read our recent blog to learn more about Workato’s security and compliance certifications.
OPA 25.1: Kafka, FTPS & SAP Enhancements
OPA 25.1 includes improvements to Kafka and FTPS, along with further SAP connector enhancements. It also marks the shutdown of old on-prem (2.11.0 or later) gateways, ensuring all connected agents are up-to-date.
Don’t Forget These 25.0 Highlights:
- SAP Enhancements: Improved stability, real-time schema updates, and better error handling for our SAP connector.
- Security Boost: Core libraries updated to their latest versions, incorporating OWASP recommendations.
- Logging and FTP Improvements: Say goodbye to repetitive “request has been canceled” errors and enjoy quicker SFTP troubleshooting. Plus, connect to on-premise FTP servers!
Stay tuned for January
We hope you found this month’s updates exciting, and continue to discover new ways to Workato!Â
To read about these updates as they are released, check out our Changelog.