Interact 4.1 – November 2020

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This release note is for the 4.1 release of Blue Prism Interact (Interact) delivered in an on-premise configuration.

Upgrading

The Blue Prism Interact and Hub Upgrader can be downloaded from the customer portal. This easy-to-use tool will upgrade 4.0 to 4.1. For more information, see Upgrade Hub and Interact 4.0 to version 4.1 .

Enhancements

The following new features and enhancements are introduced in this version of Interact.

Area

Description of Change

API

Two new APIs have been introduced:

  • Raise Submission – This enables the Digital Worker to raise a submission on behalf of an Interact user. This fundamentally enhances the human‑to‑Digital Worker collaboration.
  • Get User by Form Access – This enables the Digital Worker to view the different users who have access to a specified form. This is required by the new Raise Submission API detailed above.

Forms

When an Interact form is submitted to a work queue, the details of the submitter are now included. The submitter's information can be used as part of an automation. This information includes the users Hub ID, username, first name and last name.

Installer

The following enhancements have been made to the Interact installer:

  • Display API key on screen – At the end of the installation, the Interact Remote API secret key displays and can be copied to the users’ clipboard. This key is used to set up the Interact APIs in Blue Prism. The key will still be stored in the installation root directory.

  • Enhanced SQL screens:

    • Test connection button – This ensures that the information entered establishes a successful SQL connection. The installation cannot progress to the next step without a successful connection.
    • Inherited values from the previous SQL screen – This prevents the user from having to enter the same SQL information across multiple screens.

Fixes and improvements

The following fixes and minor improvements are included in this version of Interact.

Area

Description of Change

Installer

The following improvements have been made to the Interact installer:

  • Increased maximum number of users – Previously the maximum pool size used the default value. The maximum pool size has now been set to 500, thus allowing more users.

  • Legal and visual enhancements:

    • The End-User License Agreement (EULA) has been reformatted.
    • The publisher name has been updated to "Blue Prism Limited" throughout the installer.

Web API Service updates

As part of this release of Interact, the Interact API Service release file has been updated to version 1.2.1.

The following new features and enhancements are introduced to the Web API Service and the Utility - Interact API Blue Prism VBO in this version of Interact.

Area

Description of Change

Actions

Version 1.2.1 contains the following new actions:

  • Raise Submission
  • Get Users by Form Name

The following actions are only shown in the Utility - Interact API VBO and map to the Update Config action (Change actions) and the Update Status action (Move actions) in the Web API Service:

  • Change Field State to Optional
  • Change Field State to Mandatory
  • Change Field State to Read Only
  • Change Field State to Hidden
  • Change Page State to Visible
  • Change Page State to Hidden
  • Move Submission to History
  • Move Submission to Approved
  • Move Submission to Review
  • Move Submission to Declined
  • Move Submission to Draft
  • Move Submission to Inbox
  • Move Submission to Archived

Actions

The following actions in the Utility - Interact API VBO have been replaced by the actions above:

  • Update Config
  • Update Status

These two actions will be removed in a future release.

For more information about the Interact Web API Service, see the user guide.

Known issues

A list of any prominent issues with this release is maintained in the knowledge base, click here for more information.