Product Scoop – October 2024

We’ve got new features and improvements designed to make your automation experience even smoother and more powerful. Let’s dive in!

Connectivity

Community Connectors: October Updates

Read about all of the most recent community and platform connector updates here.

SAP Connector Enhancements: Boost Performance and Efficiency

SAP OData Connector:

• Long-Running Actions: Say goodbye to request time limits! Our new HTTP Offload Proxy enables long-running actions for handling large datasets and complex operations with ease. A new “Extract bulk data” action provides extended support for longer response times, similar to “Search Object.”

SAP RFC Connector:

• Real-time Schema Refresh: Keep your integrations up-to-date effortlessly. OPA v25 and later now automatically fetches the latest RFC/BAPI/IDoc schemas from your SAP system in real-time. Simply click “Refresh” in the recipe editor – no more OPA restarts required! This ensures accurate data handling and avoids errors caused by schema changes in your SAP backend.
• Optimized Connection Pooling: Enjoy better performance and resource management with our enhanced connection pooling for Cloud profiles. New configuration parameters – “Connection pool capacity” and “Connection peak limit” – let you fine-tune connection management for optimal throughput and responsiveness, especially during peak usage.

Builder Experience

Greater Flexibility for Teams Workbot – New Message Trigger

Workbot for Microsoft Teams is getting a major boost with the New Message trigger! This allows your bot to listen to any message sent via DM or channel mention, enabling you to build Workbots that can react and respond to natural language. This trigger opens up greater possibilities for automation and engagement when coupled with AI powered workflows using OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Bedrock and Google Vertex.

This feature is available in public beta for both Standard and Enterprise Workbot users.

How it works:

1. Start with the “New Message” trigger. That’s it! No extra configuration needed to get your bot listening.
2. Fine-tune with trigger conditions. Want your bot to respond only to direct messages or specific channels? Use trigger conditions to filter incoming messages.
3. Use the “Post message” action to reply. After your bot processes the message (using any recipe logic you’ve created), use this action to send a response back to the user.

Ensure quality and confidence in every deployment with reviews & approvals

Now in private beta

Take control of your deployments with our reviews & approvals feature (now in private beta!). Streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and ensure high-quality projects with every release.

Here’s how it works:

• Ensure Quality: Implement required reviews to guarantee only the right changes go live.
• Simplify Collaboration: Provide clear, actionable feedback by commenting directly on deployments and assets.
• Maintain Control: Assign approvers to ensure the right experts oversee and validate changes.
• Stay Transparent: Monitor every step with comprehensive activity and audit logs for complete visibility.

New & Improved Embedded API Endpoints

For our Embedded API users, we’ve got some fantastic updates! We’re constantly working to improve your experience, and these new and enhanced endpoints will give you even more control and visibility.

Here’s what’s new:

• New endpoints:
  • POST /api/v2/managed_users/statistics/usage: Version 2 of our usage API to add more granular task-based usage data (docs).
  • POST /api/v2/managed_users/statistics/connection_usage: Retrieves connection-based usage metrics for specified customer workspaces (docs).
  • GET /api/v2/managed_users/:id/on_prem_groups: Retrieves a list of all On-prem Groups in a customer workspace (docs).
  • GET /api/v2/managed_users/:id/on_prem_agents: Retrieves a list of all On-prem Agents in a customer workspace (docs).
  • GET /api/v2/managed_users/:id/on_prem_agents/:agent_id: Retrieves detailed information about an On-prem Agent within a customer workspace using its unique ID (docs).
•  Updated endpoints: 
  • POST /api/managed_users/:id/members: Update includes adding members with environments enabled (docs).
  • POST /api/managed_users: Update includes ability to provision environments (docs).

Operations & Governance

Boost API security with custom authorization claims

Now in private beta

API custom authorization allows you to enforce an additional set of authorization claims on API endpoints. Workato’s API Gateway evaluates the custom authorization expression after an API request is made to an endpoint and authenticated with a valid token. This feature adds an extra layer of security by enabling you to create additional role-based access control, locale restriction, and business logic rules.

Stay tuned for November

We hope you found this month’s updates exciting, and continue to discover new ways to Workato! 

To read about these updates as they are released, check out our Changelog.