Sunbird 1.1.1
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Available from May 30, 2017.
Sunbird 1.1.1 is mostly a maintenance release to the previous versions. Although, it offers a number of new valuable features that are to facilitate the use of RPA Express and enable new desired capabilities.
New features and improvements
RPA Recorder Text actions
The following new operations with the textual information are available in this release:
- Replace Text - searches for the defined text and replaces it with the other.
- Substring Between - extracts the text either after or before the character or the text specified[. If both Before and After parameters are specified, the Action will extract the text between them.
- Change Case - changes the case of the text. The following text conversions are available:
- Upper case,
- Lower case,
- Sentence case,
- Capitalize Each Word (proper case),
- Toggle case (invert case of each letter).
- Split String - splits the text using a character defined as a delimiter.
- Get Length - gets the size of the text in a String variable.
RPA Recorder Variables actions
- Expression:
- Content of a list can be appended to a column or a row in a table.
- The number of rows and columns are calculated and saved respectively to the Number variables.
Bug fixes
Recorder
- Unable to start, if recordings from previous builds are open in the Recorder workspace.
- Recorder Variables of the List type return an error in recordings created with previous versions of RPA Express.
- Recording control hotkeys don't work (Ctrl+Alt+P - Pause, Ctrl+Alt+S - Stop, Ctrl+Alt+R - Resume)
- Recording templates from Welcome screen (Fill Company Websites in Bing, MS Office 10 World Markets, MS Office 13 World Markets) cannot be run.
OCR actions
- Image gets disabled upon change of the anchor area and duplicates upon selection of a new image.
Excel actions
- Text or Variables Actions can not be placed inside Excel Actions.
- Unable to put Excel Actions into Error-handling, Loops and Conditions actions by drag-n-drop.
Error Handling action
- Error handling is unable to handle an error of image finding.
Recorder Variables
- Error when getting value from a table variable and pasting it to Notepad.
- Compare operations do not work with the Number variables.
Keyboard actions
- Some keys are not captured via enter keystrokes -> key combination action
- Ctrl + Shift | Alt | - | * | [ | ] | ; | ' | . |
- Shift + all buttons
- Alt + - | * | / | [ | ] | ; | ' | . |
Web actions
- "http:" is added automatically in the Open website Action, if the local resources (localhost or file) are used.
Export
- Upon Export to bot task XML with code does not open, if only the Recorder is installed.
Control Tower
- Task fails for Excel with alphabetical column index (A-Z).\
- Excel Actions are not replayed, if placed in Conditions or Loops.\
- Task containing Xpath with * fails.\
- Recording is played back in Recorder, but BP does not run in Control Tower.
- Disabled actions are executed in BP.\
- Close on completion capability doesn't work.
- Win+R as the first step of Group is not executed.
Known issues
- Switch to window does not work with Cortana.
- Publish to Control Tower shows 'Would you like to override current recorder script?' message, if the recording has already been published to previous version of Control Tower. As a workaround, click Yes to complete the procedure.
- During playback Recorder can not switch to the window whose title is partially defined in the Window Action. When the playback is stopped almost all windows close.
- The Auto-detect window Action cannot switch to the application windows after the Window maximize Action. The workaround is as follows. As the application window opens, switch to another window first, then move the focus to the application.