Automise 5.0.0.591

Enhancements and new features for Automise IDE, Actions and Action Studio.
October 18, 2016
New Version

Features

Automise IDE Features

  • Enhancement - Improved error reporting for resetting variables that are undefined.
  • Enhancement - Cached the loading of Automise configuration files.
  • Enhancement - Improved startup time.
  • Enhancement - Action group variable renames will now propagate to child actions.
  • Enhancement - Project variable renames will now no longer propagate to action groups and their children that define an override variable of the same name.
  • Enhancement - actionlist variable renames will now propagate to child actions, dependants, and any referencing run actionlist actions.
  • Enhancement - Code completion for action scripting improved for action configuration options.
  • Enhancement - Added the ability to remove recently open projects, from the list of recently opened projects, on the welcome page.
  • Enhancement - Reduced CPU load by improving loading of core internals.
  • Enhancement - Fixed up the action editor dialog buttons so that they were all aligned and spaced the same distance from each other.

Automise Actions Features

  • Enhancement - Added OriginalActionId field to exported log xml and stylesheets.
  • Enhancement - ADO Execute Stored Procedure Action - Include Schema prefix when loading procedure list.
  • Enhancement - Text Find/Replace - Added the ability to set the Byte Order Mark (BOM) on output files.
  • Enhancement - Include Project - UI gives suggestions for included project variables, and output variables.
  • Enhancement - Include Project - Allows selection of actionlist to run.
  • Enhancement - Include Project - Will update output variables from included project if variable scope is not shared.
  • Feature - FileSets - Adding files & directories option to the file set and file iterator.
  • Feature - FileSet Delete - Added option to purge folders when performing a fileset delete.
  • Feature - FTPS Mirror - Added new upload retry options for mirroring.
  • Feature - FTPS Mirror - Added logging tab to list all logging options on the action.
  • Feature - Amazon S3 - Added bucket delete object, bucket list objects, bucket list, upload directory, and download folder actions.
  • Feature - Azure Actions - Added Login, Logout, Config Mode actions.
  • Feature - Azure Group Actions - Added Group Create, Group Delete, Group List, Group Log Show, Group Set, Group Show actions.
  • Feature - Azure VM - Added VM Capture, VM Create, VM Deallocate, VM Delete, VM List, VM List, VM Quick Create, VM Restart, VM Start, VM Stop actions.
  • Feature - Azure Storage - Added Storage File Copy Show, Storage File Copy Start, Storage File Copy Stop, Storage File Delete, Storage File Download, Storage File List, Storage File Upload actions.

Automise Action Studio Features

  • Enhancement - Added support for png images with full transparency for action icons.

Fixes

Automise IDE Fixes

  • Bug Fix - When looking for variables that are not used, the ! symbol is taken into account when counting variables to remove from the list of unused variables.
  • Bug Fix - Fixed AT5 CLR hosting issue when upgrading settings from earlier versions. AT5 now only uses .NET 4.0 for CLR hosting.
  • Bug Fix - Some actions were missing icons.
  • Bug Fix - Exception handling now correctly resets iterators that are run again after an error occurs.
  • Bug Fix - Added protection for the variable resolution on variable resets.
  • Bug Fix - Resolved variable type issue not loading correctly in certain circumstances. No information loss occurs in previous versions.
  • Bug Fix - Fixed conversion issue from Automise 4. The variable namespace for a generated main actionlist was not being set correctly.
  • Change - When a password is set the user is now no longer able to edit the action through actionlist editor. This includes changing the description, settings breakpoints and disabling actions.

Automise Actions Fixes

  • Bug Fix - File/Fileset Iterator Action - Improved Extension Strict Match behavior.
  • Bug Fix - Include Project Action - fixed issue with error handling when expanding expressions in parameters.
  • Bug Fix - Include Project Action - Corrected loading of include project form so that expression editor loads all vars, project vars and property sets.
  • Bug Fix - Fixed handling of Export Log I/O exceptions in export log action.
  • Bug Fix - Corrected the behavior of the sub string action when searching for the end value.
  • Bug Fix - FileSets - Fixed encoding issue with filesets, also don't rewrite file if we didn't replace anything.
  • Bug Fix - FTP Mirror - Corrected label on action dialog that was not fully visible.
  • Bug Fix - FTP Mirror - Improved handling of servers reporting an error when creating a directory that already exists.
  • Bug Fix - FTPS - Removed validation of proxy username and passwords. Some proxies do not require a username and password.
  • Bug Fix - Get Date Time - Corrected setting date time to a date time variable. Previously the format strings in both the action and variable had to match.
  • Bug Fix - FTPS Actions - Corrected divide by zero error for upload progress.
  • Bug Fix - FTPS Actions - Corrected potential duplication of folder delimiters depending on server type.
  • Bug Fix - Export Log Action - Corrected issue where exporting a log in an included project export everything currently in the log, including the parent project.
  • Bug Fix - CSV Iterator Action - Corrected csv iterator to correctly determine if the last field was quoted or not.
  • Bug Fix - COM+ Action - Corrected issue where COM+ errors would not be reported correctly.

Automise Core Fixes

  • Bug Fix - Issue with local variables and actionlist parameters not always working under async groups.
  • Bug Fix - Added better encoding detection for text files that do not have a byte order mark.
  • Bug Fix - Corrected an error in loading Automise 4 projects into Automise 5.
  • Bug Fix - Corrected an error in loading Automise 4 projects into Automise 5 that caused variables to be reported as no longer defined.

Automise Command Line Fixes

  • Bug Fix - Corrected issue where builds would potentially not write to the console everything that occurred in the run.
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