Product Releases and Updates

With this new release for Workflow Builder comes many improvements, including the ability to now cancel a request in the “Request detail page”, until the moment that an operator is ready to start handling the request. What’s more, tasks can now also be assigned to the requester during the process workflow. Other enhancements include improvements on experience debt, including improved email previews.

The new process separates the upgrade of the OutSystems platform from upgrades of OutSystems applications. Now you can upgrade to the latest version of OutSystems and benefit from all the new capabilities, stability and security of the newest version, while applications remain untouched. Each development team will upgrade their apps, on the sequence desired, allowing for better time management and risk control. The new upgrade process avoids the time consuming task of republishing all modules, which means shorter environment unavailability for development related tasks. If a “republish all modules” is desired, it can also be done at any time. This capability is available only when upgrading from any OutSystems version 11 to version 11.12 or later.

Refresh REST services, import a new OpenAPI specification, and override a consumed REST services specification, so new attributes or APIs can be consumed. Besides increasing productivity, you can now get the necessary changes from the specification file instead of implementing them manually. It will also avoid the need to import the consumed REST service all over again if you delete it.

Create, compose, and send emails in Mobile and Reactive Web apps with the new Built-in Emails Technical Preview feature. Building your emails in Service Studio is easy, intuitive, and you can do it in real time.

Customize your Reactive Web app's URLs for search engine results with the new SEO-friendly URLs Technical Preview feature. You can now create rules in Service Center and customize the URL structure and page names directly in Service Studio.

Staying on top of technical debt is super important, and the first step is to prevent it from going up. Now you'll be able to filter your report area by creation and reopen date. No more guessing work to track your recent findings, simply filter them by past weeks, sprints, or quarters, and waste no more time tackling your technical debt. Check out our documentation for more information on how to find, filter, and understand the causes of technical debt.

Sometimes, to get something accomplished, you need people from different teams to take different actions before you can move on to the next step. Rather than one having to wait for the other in a sequential order when completing a business process, Workflow Builder now allows people to act on these tasks in unison with parallel flows. This update provides the perfect way to design processes with multiple paths executed in parallel but within the same instance.

First impressions can make a huge difference, and the mobile app sign-up process is often the first time you interact with an end user. Creating an effortless onboarding experience is vital in setting the tone for the rest of their interactions. In Experience Builder, you can now make this process painless with alternatives beyond the standard “What’s your email?” login. Try out other options to help people sign in with a phone number, one-time password, or drawing pattern. Familiarity and speed are the best approaches for getting people to dive into your apps!

Quickly add, edit, and delete entities directly in non-production environments. Simply double-click the attributes you want to change and make any necessary adjustments. You'll boost your productivity by editing data at least 10X faster, opening up priceless time in your day. Full back offices, advanced SQL queries, or advanced knowledge is no longer necessary when preparing your data for tests or demos! This feature will be available for everyone with Platform Server version 11.11.1 or above.

The latest version of the Case Management framework (CMf) is now available with several new features! Use the search APIs to easily find and retrieve use cases and activities, along with other useful filter and sorting options. A new action is also available, allowing you to discard the current activity and stop the BPT process flow. If Access Control is active, fetch and search APIs will now automatically filter cases based on access permissions and deny access accordingly.

As a developer, when you start building a mobile app, do you ever get that feeling of déjà vu? Like remembering that team X developed that amazing flow for onboarding journeys in product Y and how useful it would be to take advantage of it? In Experience Builder, you can now create your own assets by importing your flows (with your own UX/UI, data, integrations and embedded best practices), so they can be shared and reused by all other Experience Builder users, provided they’re on the same infrastructure.

What’s new in Workflow Builder? Exactly that: an in-app ‘What’s new’ section where you can check the latest Workflow Builder features as they’re released! But there’s more: you can also now customize the email notifications you send to requesters and operators. And finally, you can add two more field types to your forms: multiple checkbox and email address.

No more jumps! In the quest to evolve the Architecture Dashboard into a more autonomous tool, users are now able to have a complete experience through solving findings. There’s no need to navigate away to search for consumed elements information. We added the required information on dependencies and the list of elements consumed with each architecture finding.

The latest version of the Case Management framework (CMf) is now available! New features include the ability to easily manage access permissions at different case levels. The system now automatically verifies if the user has the necessary write access permissions and automatically denies access if they are missing. Install the OutTracker showcase app, built with the CMf, by choosing the "Start from an App" option when creating your application in Service Studio. If need be, it will automatically install the CMf, as well as the updated OutTracker app.

Meet a powerful new help experience within Service Studio, available right when you need it. Right-click any component for contextual help from OutSystems sources such as documentation, community, and blog posts. If you want to search all available resources, click on the new “What do you want to do?” button to find what you need without leaving your development environment.

The latest Mobile Apps Build Service (MABS) version is now generally available! MABS 7.0 uses Android 11 (API level 30) and iOS 14 SDKs and supports Android X. Get the latest version to ensure you remain compliant with the necessary requirements to publish your Android apps on Google Play and your iOS apps on the App Store. For further details, check the MABS 7.0 release notes.

If you have client-side certificates, you can now quickly scale out your systems in self-service. By supplying your certificates to the OutSystems team, they will install them to the front-end servers on your behalf. In this way, OutSystems applications can consume web services that require client-side authentication, as well as those that aren’t exposed to the internet through VPN connection.

You can now manage your multiple environments in Service Studio. When logging in, or switching environments, you can quickly search through your environment list, remove those that are no longer in use, or assign a recognizable name to each environment (which really comes in handy when you have dozens of them). These are some of the new features that make it easier for you to maintain your ever-growing environment list.

Accelerate screen composition to show single or multiple locations on a map with OutSystems Maps, a component that supports map-based interfaces. Based on the Google Maps API component, it’s fully customizable and adaptable, allowing you to change map behaviors, change the visual aspects of the map, add markers, and customize them according to brand guidelines. You can also speed up the application development time with new screen templates that show multiple markers on a map and a detail for each location, combining the component usage with beautiful UI.

You can now receive your LifeTime permissions in Architecture Dashboard with a new probe version that improves customization and security. Individual contributors and teams can now tackle their technical debt, isolating it from the other teams' information. Better yet, there's no need to reconfigure or create your IT user again. All your data will be there from the start. Check our documentation for more information on how to best use the new probe in your environment.