The b4A Solution and the b4A Service Portal have always been inextricably linked. From now on, both have the same version number!

Highlights

• General

  • Update of libraries

    • Automic Application Interface 24.4.2
    • Spring Boot 3.5.6

• Package Management

  • The installation of b4A Package releases now only recalculates calendars at the end of the installation
  • The b4A Modul pm.Repository supports JFrog Artifactory® as a new backend

• RESTful API

  • Interface for managing user settings
  • Prompts can now be defined on the workflow and tasks of a service

• Service Portal

  • Further improvements in the area of accessibility
  • When adding new services, the object can be found via automatic search
  • First user settings for theme and accessibility
  • Tasks can now be commented on by all recipients. The messages of the different recipients are displayed like in a messenger
  • New task type Requests: Such tasks can be accepted (blocked), edited and finally marked as completed
  • Requests from services can be called up and completed directly in the list of executions
  • Until now, prompts were displayed to the activator of the service. These can be redirected to other users in the task definition (groups are not yet supported)
  • Dynamic labels now support HTML. This means that structured information can also be displayed.
  • Improved loading screen after login

• Examples

  • New templates for pm.DocBuilder for the MDX format
  • Improvements to SVG templates for pm.DocBuilder

Incompatible changes

• Framework

  • The --groovy option has been removed and replaced by --custom-solution. If the action B4A.BASE.JBOP@IF.RUN-GROOVY is used, it must be replaced by the newer `B4A.BASE.JBOP@IF.RUN-CUSTOM-SOLUTION

  • The following modules were marked as obsolete and have been removed

    • ana.SAPGetVariantContent
    • util.DBChangeViewer

• Service Portal

  • Workflows that are to be used as a service must be generated at runtime if they have one or more PromptSets.

• RESTful API

  • The version of the API has been increased to 4, as there are several incompatible changes. This affects the areas for starting and listing services as well as reading tasks
  • The setting parameterDefinitionsDocuTab in the configuration file api.json has been renamed to objectExtensions.

Changelog

Type	ID	Description
	BSP-171	Improve loading screen
	BSP-238	Adjust prompt set (resets) for all corresponding prompt set fields.
	BSP-257	Display status 1580 (resolution of variables) as active
	BA-2026	Remove util.DBChangeViewer module
	BA-1915	Remove ana.SAPGetVariantContent module
	BA-2455	Update Spring Boot to version 3.5.6
	BA-2524	pm.Repository: Support for the Artifactory backend
	BA-2423	RESTful API: SAML for authentication
	BA-2426	RESTful API: Centralized storage of user settings
	BA-2480	New module for searching for a regular expression in Automation Engine
	BA-2548	RESTful API: Forward task prompts to other users
	BA-2492	RESTful API: New endpoint for querying custom data sources
	BA-2547	RESTful API: Object variables for custom data sources
	BA-2559	RESTful API: New user setting for visible shortcuts in the menu
	BA-2558	RESTful API: New user setting for selecting the theme
	BA-2516	RESTful API: New endpoint for querying comments from notification objects
	BA-2488	RESTful API: Support for the notification object type Alarm
	BA-2519	RESTful API: New endpoint to query information about a notification object
	BA-2491	RESTful API: New endpoint for leaving comments on notification objects
	BA-2525	pm.DocBuilder: New templates in MDX format
	BSP-256	Dynamic labels: Support for HTML
	BSP-246	User settings
	BSP-168	Prompts should be accessible directly from the execution list when available
	BSP-241	Support for the notification object type Alarm
	BSP-251	Use of the new topics for notifications
	BSP-244	Use of the CDS endpoint when selecting the workflow when adding/editing a service
	BSP-242	Option to comment on notifications of the type "alarm" and "query"
	BSP-216	Implement dark mode
	BA-2502	pm.Install: New processing step for recalculating calendar terms
	BA-2545	RESTful API: Workflows must be generated at runtime
	BA-2242	Framework: Remove old option --groovy
	BA-2554	RESTful API: Rename the parameterDefinitionsDocuTab option to objectExtensions
	BA-2562	Update Automic Application Interface to 24.4.2
	BA-2521	RESTful API: The endpoint for retrieving notifications should now only return the list of RunIds
	BA-2520	RESTful API: The WebSocket message for changing a notification should contain the RunId
	BA-2518	RESTful API: Renaming of topics for notification objects
	BA-2526	pm.DocBuilder: Improvements for SVG templates
	BSP-192	"Services & Roles" tabs in the admin view cannot be switched (using keyboard navigation)
	BSP-237	Outdated session cookies are not recognized
	BA-2533	util.Web: File content is transferred in ISO-8859-1 regardless of the selected character set
	BSP-191	Services cannot be started (using keyboard navigation) via the search field
	BSP-255	Long words in the service title lead to display errors
	BSP-259	Theme: Primary Light is used as the main color
	BA-2550	RESTful API: Retrieving parameter values from PromptSets in tasks can lead to errors in certain cases
	BA-2549	RESTful API: Curly bracket syntax and system variables are not resolved in prompt sets for tasks
	BA-2523	RESTful API: Requests with invalid content return status code 401 instead of 400
	BA-2555	RESTful API: Notification for the same task twice
	BA-2552	Framework: FolderScanner does not work for root folders
	BA-2556	Framework: Closed connection is not recognized
	BA-2514	RESTful API: The WebSocket message for changing a notification does not pull the recipient information from the execution
	BA-2528	pm.DocBuilder: END task not in the 'graph' attribute list
	BSP-185	Design HTML elements semantically correct
	BA-2164	RESTful API: Prompt buffer also fills the prompt sets for tasks when a service is started
	BSP-189	Perform accessibility checks and create reports
	BA-2567	RESTful API: Multiple messages about new prompts for multiple sessions of the same user
	BA-2570	RESTful API: Error when passing parameters for CDS in the case of text fields that are treated as checkboxes