Released: Jun 21, 2021

Atualizações na v5.0

Correções

• Performance Improvements
  • Codebase
    • Built in 100% Microsoft .NET managed code.
    • Microsoft .NET is the leading server-side scripting technology. It offers superior memory management, security, and exception handling than anything achievable with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.
    • Using .NET also allows ThinkAutomation to leverage the power of the Microsoft .NET framework and its rich integration ecosystem.
  • Core Processing
    • 10x faster than ThinkAutomation version 4.
    • Offers a resilient core processor powering concurrent message processing, plus concurrent automation executions.
  • Core Service Connections
    • Uses WebSocket connections between core ThinkAutomation services.
    • WebSockets are continuous and connections can be kept open.
    • You get fluid, low-latency communication across your client and server.
  • Implementation Ease
    • All communication relays via secure WebSocket - not over a direct connection.
    • Setting up ThinkAutomation across multiple workstations is a much smoother process.
    • Secure, remote access to ThinkAutomation is also easier.
  • Database Connections
    • All database queries are parameterized.
    • Database actions now use ADO.NET directly (for improved performance).
  • Logging
    • Multi-line logging can cause lags. For example, if fast executing triggers generate a high volume of log lines in rapid succession, the ThinkAutomation administrator may become temporarily unresponsive.
• New Features
  • Orchestration
    • Happens inside the ThinkAutomation studio.
    • New automation studio is designed for scalable, accessible orchestration - with hundreds of available actions.
  • Message Stores
    • Supports MongoDB and MySQL message stores. (As well as Microsoft SQL Server and SQLite.)
    • Take advantage of high performance and unlimited storage.
  • Custom Actions
    • Design your own custom actions using a new UI builder and fully-featured code editor.
    • Build as much as you like, as often as you like, however you like.
  • Scripting
    • Offers a built-in IDE to write your own scripts. (Using .NET, C#, or VB.NET as preferred.)
    • You can also reference external assemblies and paste directly from Microsoft Visual Studio.
  • Web Forms / Surveys
    • Build publicly accessible web forms and surveys from inside ThinkAutomation.
    • Customize forms in any number of ways: from design, to input fields, to validation rules, to the sequence of automations that follow a form submission.
    • Forms can integrate into websites, be embedded via iframe, or linked / shared in any other way desired.
    • ThinkAutomation can then process your public-facing forms on-premises, and execute instant automations.
  • JSON
    • Comes complete with advanced JSON parsing. This is powered by a friendly UI and accompanied with a JSON editor to assist building automations.
  • Local REST API
    • Offers a local API for fast, embedded data processing in a client environment.
    • This API is REST-based, accepts JSON, and does not require IIS to be installed.
  • Public Cloud API
    • Offers a public web API gateway for smooth, continuous data flows with third-party cloud services.
  • Automation chaining
    • Automations can now "call" other automations with any value and receive the result instantly.
    • This enables rapid value exchanges and immediate executions.
  • Accessibility
    • Enables remote access to a convenient, easy to manage web-based dashboard and message store viewer. Activity updates in real-time.
  • File Pickup
    • File pickup happens in real-time, via continuous .NET monitoring of selected folders.
  • Markdown Support
    • Includes markdown support. So, you can send stylized auto-responses / outgoing messages.
  • Mail Server
    • Uses a specialist smart host to send outgoing emails.
    • Using a smart host offers improved system performance, email deliverability, and overall security.
  • Additional Actions
    • Create document.
    • Convert document to text.
    • Summarise text.
    • JSON to Azure Cosmos DB.
    • Document to MongoDB.
    • Call other automations.
    • Create hash.
    • Delete scheduled email.
    • Math (formula execution).
    • Tokenise text.
    • Extract field (inc JSON).
    • Open database reader.
    • Mask profanities.
    • Mask credit cards.
    • Extract concepts from text.
    • Markdown to HTML.