| AA Server Version History |
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| Version History | Release Date |
| Version 6.5.1 - Current Version |
06/07/10 |
| Version 6.5 |
04/12/10 |
| Version 6.0.6 |
12/17/09 |
| Version 6.0.5 |
10/12/09 |
| Version 6.0.4 |
07/20/09 |
| Version 6.0.3 |
07/06/09 |
| Version 6.0.2 |
06/26/09 |
| Version 6.0.1 |
06/15/09 |
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| Version 6.5.1 -
Current Version |
| New Features & Enhancements |
- Improved test editor performance for rather large tasks.
- Added variable support for all the fields in the ‘Terminal Emulator’ command where applicable.
- Now the ‘Insert Keystrokes’ feature can be used in conjunction with the Terminal window.
- Now Undo/Redo functionality is configurable via settings.ini.
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| Bug Fixes |
- In rare cases, while editing image-based commands, ‘Path/File access error’ appears. Fixed.
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| Version 6.5 |
| New Features & Enhancements |
- Added a new feature of ‘Web Service’. This allows you to integrate with a Web service to establish seamless dataflow between clients/applications with the Web, supporting XML-based open standards, such as WSDL (Web Services Description Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration).
- Added a new feature of XML that provides a tight integration with any XML document, be it online or as a text blob. It allows various operations to be performed like insert/update/delete nodes and attributes at given points to name a few.
- Added functionalities of Undo/Redo in the task editor. Now you can undo/redo last 5 changes in the editor.
- Enhanced String Operations command which now includes variety of functions like Sub String, Replace, Join, etc. to manipulate the data.
- Now, all the scheduled tasks can be tracked from the newly added Schedule Manager. It provides a calendar-type view with various filtering options to have better visibility on the scheduled tasks.
- Added a functionality of Find-Replace in Excel.
- Enhanced ‘Get Cells command of Excel with a newly added option ‘Get All Cells’ to loop through all the active cells of the spreadsheet.
- Added two new system variables ‘Excel Cell Row’ and ‘Excel Cell Column’ to find out the address of the cell in use.
- Now declaring of an ‘If’ and ‘Error Handling’ blocks just got easier. Just select multiple consecutive commands from the editor, right click and select ‘Insert If Condition’ or ‘Insert Error Handling’ option.
- Now you can run the task from a specific command by right-clicking on the selected command and selecting ‘Run from this Step’ option.
- Added a new functionality for Loop Condition where now the condition can be evaluated at the end of the loop instead of at the beginning.
- Enhanced ‘Run Stored Procedure’ command with an ability to send parameters while calling the procedure. Also, now the output of the procedure can be saved in the CSV file.
- Improved image comparison logic for the ‘Image Recognition’ command which can now perform comparison up to 5 times faster.
- Enhanced Web Recorder that will support multiple value selection in a listbox while recording.
- Added ability to change the column positions of the CSV file while using pattern based web data extraction functionality.
- Enhanced scheduling functionality with an option to repeat the task every x minutes. Also, now ‘End Date’ can be specified.
- Added support for wildcards at the beginning of the filename for the commands FTP/SFTP.
- Added support for timeout in the ‘Extract Data’ and ‘Extract Table’ command of Web Recorder.
- Added a variable support for the script path in the ‘Run Script’ command.
- Added functionality of creating a new folder while saving a task.
- Enhanced ‘Task-to-Exe’ feature where ‘Run Script’ can have the non-existent script path.
- Now when you capture a Menu using Object Recorder or ‘Manage Windows Control’, all menu items are shown which makes it very easy to use.
- Enhanced Web Recorder with added support for nested child frame support.
- Enhanced SMART automation logic for Web Recorder which now supports searching of a control in all the IE windows opened by the application.
- Enhanced Debug mode which is faster and supports nested loops with any number of iterations.
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| Bug Fixes |
- When the application path is changed to be on a network drive and the drive gets disconnected, Automation Anywhere could not start. Fixed.
- ‘Run Task’ command with variables as parameters was not working properly when the task is converted to an executable. Fixed.
- $Filename$ system variable could not be referenced in case of a nested loop using ‘Loop for each file in Folder’ command. Fixed.
- In 2008, the ‘HTML’ option of the ‘Send Email’ command did not offer variable support. Fixed.
- In certain cases, GDI objects were getting leaked. Fixed.
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| Version 6.0.6 |
| New Features & Enhancements |
- Now the Run Stored Procedure command has no upper limit on the length of the Procedure name.
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| Bug Fixes |
- Some times for the Email Automation command, the control does not come out of the loop. Fixed.
- On Vista, the Automation Anywhere exe stops working when the machine resumes from hibernation. Fixed.
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| Version 6.0.5 |
| New Features & Enhancements |
- Enhanced Web Recorder with pattern based data extraction. Now, you can extract web data with same pattern spanning across multiple pages with an ease.
- Added support for TN3270 and TN5250 (IBM Mainframe access) in Terminal Emulator functionality.
- Added a new feature of Screen Capture. This allows you to take the snapshot of the Desktop or a selected window as a whole or an area of it and save the image in a file.
- Added support for POP3 in Email Automation functionality.
- Now variables can be passed as command line arguments to the task executable created using Task to Exe functionality.
- Added nested loop support for the Read from CSV/Text feature using session functionality. Now another CSV/Text file can be read while processing the first CSV/Text file.
- Added nested loop support for the Database commands using session functionality. Now you can retrieve data using nested loops from different databases.
- Improved Extract Data functionality which allows you to import the data directly to CSV from the SQL query.
- Added support for SSL for the Send Mail functionality.
- Now user-defined variables are sorted alphabetically for easier searching when F2 is pressed.
- Enhanced Variable Manager which now allows you to copy and paste variables from one task to another.
- Enhanced IF Variable functionality with the support for special characters like Newline and Tab as a value.
- Added Advanced View for the If Web Control Exists functionality with the support for user-defined tag attributes. Now, you can add/edit/delete the tag attributes used to search for a particular control in the web page.
- Now using the Copy Task feature, you can copy the tasks created in older versions and open the copied task in the latest version.
- Improved Wait for Screen Change feature where the ‘relative to window’ functionality is no longer dependent on the window location.
- Added support for assigning the Email Automation system variables to Clipboard using ‘Assign To Clipboard’ functionality.
- Enhanced Text control capturing logic in web recorder.
- Added support for deleting the tasks on the server using Server Management Console as well as on Client based on the access controls.
- Completely redone help file.
- Now Workflow Designer has a new look.
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| Bug Fixes |
- In certain cases, Excel instance remains open after executing the task. Fixed.
- Copy Files command used to always treat the value of ‘Destination File(s) / Folder’ as a folder and not as a file. Fixed.
- In Send Mail using the HTML editor, creating a hyperlink on an image or a text was not allowed. Fixed.
- If the file is blank, the task used to terminate after executing the Read from CSV/Text command. Fixed.
- When the Navigate URL command follows the Extract Source option, sometimes it doesn’t work as expected. Fixed.
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Version 6.0.4 |
| New Features & Enhancements |
- Improved Web Recorder capturing functionality with highlighting of the captured control for visual validation.
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| Bug Fixes |
- While running a task exe on a machine where some common dlls and controls are not found, it throws an error. Fixed.
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Version 6.0.3 |
| New Features & Enhancements |
- Enhanced String Manipulation functionality with support for Special
Characters like 'Enter' and 'Tab' for the 'Before' and 'After' fields.
Now, you can specify ‘Enter’, for example, as a separator in 'Before'
field.
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| Bug Fixes |
- In some cases, there was a problem with retrieving the files from the
server using SFTP. Fixed.
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| Version 6.0.2 |
| New Features & Enhancements |
- Improved notification messages with in-detail reporting in cases of
a client server communication failure.
- Enhanced Run Time Window reporting functionality when Run Task command
is used that now displays the called task and the line number in case
of an error.
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| Bug Fixes |
- In some cases, the server did not launch after installation. Fixed.
- Sometimes, SFTP Get did not get all the files. Fixed.
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Version 6.0.1 |
| New Features & Enhancements |
- Enhanced
‘Manage Windows Control’ feature with an Advance View that gives the
user ability to manually select the control as well.
- Enhanced ‘Image Recognition’ feature which provides editable coordinates
of the captured image with variable support.
- Added a new folder ‘My docs’ which can contain all non Automation Anywhere
related documents.
- Extended functionalities of Upload and Download to work with non AA
documents as well under ‘My docs’ folder.
- Added a preview functionality in the Web Recorder while extracting
a table.
- Added ‘Visual Logs’ in Report Designer to provide searchable runtime
visual logs of a given task(s).
- Added a new functionality in Email Automation feature to get only new
email messages since the last check.
- Added a new functionality of allowing to reset the email automation
system variables.
- Added variable support for Host Name, Port, User Name and Password
fields of Email Automation feature.
- Now right clicking on task in a workflow provides an option to open
it in a Task Editor.
- Added a new trigger type functionality for the new email arrival on
the server.
- Now using Error Handling, the task status can be customized to be Pass
or Fail.
- Added variable support for Before and After fields in Files/Folders
feature.
- Added variable support for selecting Image2 from file in Image Recognition
feature.
- Added a new command Save Spreadsheet in Excel.
- Added variable support for X and Y coordinates of Mouse Move functionality.
- Added a new command of Go Back under Web Recorder.
- Added a new functionality of Get URL in Manage Web Control to get the
URL of a link and save it in a variable.
- Added a new functionality of ‘Wait for the control to exist’ in Web
Recorder. This is very helpful in case the control is taking longer to
appear on the page some times.
- Added a new functionality of ‘Wait for the control to exist’ in Manage
Windows Control feature. This is very helpful in case the control is
taking longer to appear on the page some times.
- Now Read from CSV/Text command supports user-defined delimiter as well
in addition to Comma, Newline and Tab.
- Added ‘Pass variable as an argument’ in the workflow task.
- Enhanced Web Recorder that supports onClick event of <TD> tag.
- Added variable support for the hyperlink in the HTML format for the
Send Email feature.
- Now by right clicking on any Manage Windows Control action, it can
be converted into the ‘If Windows Control Exists’ block from the editor.
- Improved support for Firefox in Object Recorder.
- Added a new system variable $Trigger Value$ which contains the actual
value for which the trigger is fired.
- Improved Queuing of Tasks functionality to work flawlessly with Triggers.
- Enhanced Group by Windows functionality to work with task created using
Web Recorder.
- Now the Task Editor can filter Web Recorder commands as well. For example,
Keystrokes filter recognizes ‘Set Text’, ‘Type’ and ‘Append Text’ commands.
- Added one more type of loop 'Each row in a CSV/Text file' for processing
a CSV/Text file opened via Read from CSV/Text feature. Each column value
is stored in a new system variable $Filedata Column$.
- Now the user can choose to retrieve the email message in Text or HTML
via Email Automation feature.
- Improved Web Recorder capturing functionality which highlights the
captured control and provides visual validation.
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| Bug Fixes |
- ‘If
Web Control Exists’ didn’t work as expected in some cases. Fixed.
- Some times list variable was not working properly inside the loop.
Fixed.
- While playing certain tasks, the line number displayed in Run Time
Window was incorrect. Fixed.
- On Vista, under ‘Security’ tab, Auto Login options were not visible.
Fixed.
- In some cases, $Email Message$ contained improper value. Fixed.
- While copying and pasting a task that has Insert Keystrokes command
with a variable in it used to break the variable. Fixed.
- In Web Recorder, after capturing the control, the dialog box wasn’t
getting the focus back. Fixed.
- Unable to stop the task with many Run Task commands. Fixed.
- Web Recorder hangs on chat windows. Fixed.
- For App Integration and OCR features, screenshots and captured text
went away upon saving. Fixed.
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