01/06/2023
18/5/2023
With the positive feedback from last weeks Authenticated requests from Workflow Service Tasks, we have also added API key support. API Keys still are powered by RAPID Integrations on your site and can be configured in several ways depending on how your target API would prefer to receive its keys.
CUSTOM_KEY = "X-API-KEY"
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
[CUSTOM_KEY]: [Your Integration Key]
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Authorization: Basic [Your Integration Key]
CUSTOM_KEY = "apiKEY"
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Params: {
[CUSTOM_KEY]: [Your Integration Key]
}
CUSTOM_KEY = "API-KEY"
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Body: {
[CUSTOM_KEY]: [Your Integration Key]
}
You can now configure cascading lookups in Adaptive documents. Cascading lookups regard another lookup on the document and once configured with a matching criteria will filter the items fetched by that criteria, just like in Explorer.
This support should be live for both Tasks and Public form.
11/5/2023
With the advent of Cans you can now configure the Data Association (dotted arrow) from an Activity towards a Can to set values of the associated item. This update is performed after the action is completed, so that you can capture data collected during the activity itself.
Webhook service tasks can now use Basic authentication when interacting with remote APIs. This authentication is created and stored in a newly updated Rapid Integrations list. When creating a new integration the Username and Password are stored securely in Azure Key Vault and not on your site. As a consequence you will not be able to see stored passwords. Updating a Username or Password will overwrite the value in the Key Vault and thus be used by Workflow form then on.
When configuring a Lookup component in Adaptive Pages and Forms, you can now select a subset of views on the target table to present to the User. By default the All view will still be the first selected view.
27/4/2023
You can now use Images in the DocX Templater when filling in documents. With the {%ImageName} syntax you can insert new images, or replace existing images by setting their Alt text. Images replaced will respect the image size boundaries while also trying to respect the source image aspect ratio to prevent overflow in your documents. Small images will retain their size if they are smaller than the image they're replacing.
Images can be sourced from SharePoint, as with all files in RAPID.
User Tasks in workflow with an attached adaptive forms now present the items created or updated in the ledger. These can be accessed to help identify what happened. Items affected are now available on a 'context' key after the task is completed.
Prefill data now parses strings. For example numbers and Boolean values will be cast to their correct type. Booleans are case sensitive, as per these examples:
This system follows the standard json.parse / json.stringify behaviour.
21/4/2023
Word Documents support different Themes and the Fill Document service task (powered by DocX) now does as well. You can now configure custom theme colours which will be applied to the produced document. This sets the actual Word theme, so any content within can be styled. The theming interface mirrors the Theme configurator in Word itself to make it easy to map your custom themes across.
One word of warning, Word Online has different behaviour around custom themes as compared to Word running locally. We have noticed the first two theme colours (Text Light 1 and Text Dark 1) are respected by Word Online but instead set to black and white locally.
Marking fields as required in Adaptive documents will now be respected by both Public Forms and the Task Experience. Public forms with empty required fields will prevent submission of the form. Tasks can be altered and saved so that they can be pushed out or slowly filled in over time, but trying to complete a task with missing required fields will now direct the user to fill them in.
This update has no effect on Explorer.
13/4/2023
The Tasks experience has been upgraded with a mobile friendly style sheet. This styling change comes with improvements for buttons including a disabled state on task side menus when they are empty. As always these improvements are powered by feedback, so hearing back about how if works on your device is highly appreciated.
30/3/2023
23/3/2023
Notifications and Audiences have been upgraded from an internal table to full list support. This enables access to access and control of notifications via the API for the creation of 3rd party notification systems. See the Technical Documentation for requirements to produce and manage notifications.
Webhooks and Service tasks sent from RAPID to external systems now will carry environment information in their headers. This allows for the creation of third party endpoints that can react differently if a request is received from Test or Production.
16/3/2023
It is now possible to add data cans to workflow diagrams. These act as persistent get item or get items service task, where you can reference them and fetch the most upto date state of the item(s)
There is now support for the error boundary event, if the attached activity gets into an errored state, the boundary path will be taken.
9/3/2023