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Xanadu

What's new for Workflow Automation in the Xanadu Release - Workflow Academy (Aug 22nd, 2024)

Flows, subflows, and actions in Workflow Studio release notes

• Protect sensitive data in execution details by using the operations read role.
• Provide improved support of the variables data type for subflow and action inputs.
• Show annotations of what text directions were used to generate actions, flow logic, and subflows during flow generation.
• Sign and validate any flow, subflow, or action.

Decision tables in Workflow Studio release notes

• Create a decision table inline while authoring a flow or subflow in Workflow Studio.
• Use decision tables directly in your playbooks in Workflow Studio. Add the Make a Decision - First
• Match activity with inputs from your playbook to manage complex decisions.
• In large decision tables, scroll within the table to see more rows.
• Rank the order in which decision rows are read in your table, and reorder rows as needed.

Playbooks in Workflow Studio release notes

• Get recommendations on which activities to replace placeholder activities with.
• Preview and modify your text directions before generating your playbook outline with Now Assist.
• Collect custom responses from an end user, without requiring an existing table or fields.
• Better manage access to your playbooks and playbook components.

Washington DC

What's new for Workflow Automation in the Washington DC Release - Workflow Academy

Workflow Studio Washington DC Release Notes

• Create process automation workflows from Workflow Studio.
• See all your process automation workflows from a single consolidated interface.
• See work details across your process automation workflows.

Flows in Workflow Studio Washington DC Release Notes

• Create multi-step flows with generative AI.
• Open Flow Designer from within Workflow Studio.
• Save flows automatically as you work on them.
• Start a flow when Performance Analytics conditions are met.
• Undo changes that you've made while editing a flow.
• Use the flow diagramming view to add annotations and Try flow logic.

Decision Tables in Workflow Studio Washington DC Release Notes

• Decision Builder is now integrated into Workflow Studio. Access Decision Builder alongside other powerful tools such as Flow Designer and Playbooks to seamlessly integrate decision tables with workflows.
• Duplicate full decision tables under 300 rows or just the decision table structure (inputs and columns) for larger decision tables.
• Execute the decision table from any script and make it easier to replace hard-coded logic with decisions by inserting decision table code snippets copied from Decision Builder.
• Save time and effort writing decision rules by strategically duplicating rows of your decision table.
• View and access related objects that your decision tables are used in.

Playbooks in Workflow Studio Wasthington DC Release Notes

• Processes are now called Playbooks in both the builder and in Playbook Experience.
• Open the Playbooks builder in Workflow Studio. Workflow Studio enables workflow owners to author, configure, and monitor playbooks, flows, subflows, actions, and decision tables in one place.
• Restart your entire playbook, or restart from a specific activity or stage.
• Use dynamic inputs to configure your activity to show a certain set of fields based on the value of another input, such as a selected catalog item, selected decision table, or a REST API response.
• Trigger a playbook from any entitled table. For more information, see the Removed from this release section.

Vancouver

Flow Designer Vancouver Release Notes

• Create a flow by selecting components from a set of Generative AI recommendations.
• Add and configure subflows from the diagramming view.
• Use the new Dynamic Inputs data type to create arbitrary action inputs.
• Use the improved Flow Designer landing page to work with flows.
• Add and configure Do the following until flow logic in the diagramming view.

Decision Builder Vancouver Release Notes

• Test a decision table's function in Decision Builder to make sure it returns the results you expect.
• Edit decision tables even after they've been published by enabling draft authoring on decision tables.
• Simplify reference conditions and results by applying reference filters to inputs and result columns.
• Manage business logic with decision tables across a wider set of contexts with support for the Duration field type in result columns.
• Use Excel to manage complicated or large decision tables even when decision tables contain decisions with complex logic.

Process Automation Designer Vancouver Release Notes

Important update: We removed the trigger table restrictions in PAD. This means that you, our customers and partners can trigger processes using any SN table you are entitled to. We released this fix via Utah P7 (available from Sept 21, 2023) and Vancouver P1 (available from Sept 20, 2023).

• Receive more updates to Process Automation Designer, now that it's a ServiceNow Store application.
• Build processes in a visually intuitive diagram.
• Control whether an activity just starts with its stage, or only after specific activities within the stage are complete.

Playbook Experience Vancouver Store Release Notes

• Added support for more mobile API features like the perform function
• Added the playbook title to the mobile page
• Added a Leave playbook button that you can add to the last activity

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