Changelog

We’re excited to announce that batch actions have been introduced to the Data Tables Connector! This highly requested update empowers users to create, update, and delete records in batches, reducing complexity in recipe design and improving task efficiency. Key updates include:

• Batch Actions for Data Tables: Users can now perform batch operations to create, update, and delete records, enabling more streamlined workflows.
• Improved Efficiency: Batch actions eliminate the need for looping, helping reduce task consumption and enabling broader use cases.
• Limitations: Each batch supports up to 200 records, ensuring consistency with existing data-fetching limits.

Recipe-powered dropdowns allow you to dynamically retrieve and display data from any source using recipes. This new capability allows you to:

– Connect to and retrieve data from virtually any source as a recipe data source
– Load dropdown options in real time, reflecting the latest data
– Ensure secure integration for safe and reliable data retrieval
– Apply filters and custom input parameters to tailor dropdown options
– Enable typeahead mode to narrow down options as users type

If this feature not yet enabled in your account and you would like access, contact your Workato representative. Learn more in our Workflow Apps documentation.

Within the Workflow App page builder, you can now define custom validation rules for input fields by selecting an input type, then further specifying a minimum or maximum length, or a regular expression rule to match in the field.

Within Workflow Apps, you can now import/export and deploy the dashboard pages configured with Workato Insights.

This enhancement is available to workspaces in the Insights private beta, with Workflow Apps enabled.

When assigning a task to a user or user group in a Workflow App recipe, you can now select if you would like to send an email notification or not. 

Additionally, a request’s dataset now includes a Task URL. This URL can be retrieved from a Search requests action, within the Active Task object.

Workflow Apps data tables can now have a maximum of 100 columns, versus 50 columns previously.

Additionally, checkboxes and dropdowns can now serve as purely page controls and not be linked to a table column, to preserve data columns and increase readability of the table.

When in a Workflow App, you can now filter by any of the columns visible to your role within the app, and bookmark a preferred view based on the filters set.

Examples include filtering to expenses or procurement requests above a certain dollar threshold, or narrowing down to onboarding employees in a particular department.

When building pages for a workflow app, you can now filter dropdown options by another page or request datapill.

Examples include showing options for cities filtered by a country dropdown, subcategories filtered by a parent category, or car makes filtered by models.

Users can now use comments to communicate about requests in the Workflow apps portal. This addition enables users to collaborate on requests without leaving the apps portal. Comments are displayed alongside the request status changes, providing an easy view to see how a request is progressing.

Comments work out of the box and do not require any configuration. Each comment also creates an email notification for users involved in the particular request.

Users can now build dynamic pages in Workflow Apps by using data pills in their pages. Available data includes:

1. User data (e.g. user name, user id, and email)
2. Request data (e.g. request stage, request created by user, request data columns)
3. Page data (e.g. any editable fields on the current page)

Data pills can be used to create conditional logic in pages just like with recipes. This enables dynamic functionality like:

• Personalizing page messaging to the current user
• Showing/hiding certain components based on page data (e.g. display an input field if other is selected in drop down)
• Constructing dynamic URLs with embedded data from current page
• Making page components required or readonly based on other answers within a page