Digital Enterprise Suite – Release Notes – March 25, 2024

New and improved features:

• New modeling product: Shared Data Modeler.
  • Based on the OMG Shared Data Model and Notation (SDMN) 1.0 specification.
  • Visualize data items and data types in diagrams.
  • Fully integrated with the Digital Enterprise Graph and other standard capabilities of the Digital Modeling Suite.
  • Exchange SDMN models using the XML import and export.
• Data types display properties can now be customized to alter how they interact with users when used as either data inputs or outputs.
  • Customize the default value when inputting or outputting.
  • Select the control type (single text line, multi-text line, drop-down, radio button, ...)
  • Define the Custom Renderer name used for a data type.
  • The different interaction channels (form, email, teams) do not support all customization. Refer to the documentation to know which customization works with which channel.
• It is now possible to administer and visualize a workflow process instance visually (overlaid over the process diagram) from the Execution Instances interface.
• A new admin interface is available to upload Custom FEEL functions written in Java by developers.
• The product navigation menu (nine-tiles) is now segmented into Modeling, Automation, Administration and Documentation categories.
• The Digital Enterprise Suite application tile was rebranded Digital Modeling Suite.
• A new user facing application called Digital Automation Suite is now available from the tile menu.
  • Exposes services available to be started.
  • Exposes tasks that need to be completed for long-running services.
  • Now the default application when accessing a Digital Distributed Container through the web interface.
• Forms now display the description of the required inputs.
• The authorization model of execution environment was improved to now be defined as:
  • Performer: A user can execute services from this environment such as starting instances, performing tasks, etc.
  • Deployer: A user can deploy and delete services from this environment.
  • Builder: A user is allowed to download an offline version of this service (in a container for instance) or build a container image of the service.
  • Admin: A user can manage long running instances of services in this environment.
• It is now possible to create new models from the Place Navigator.
• The interfaces and operations from the Operation Library are now indexed in the Digital Enterprise Graph.
• OpenID Connect (OIDC) is now supported as a user provider.
• Digital Distributed Containers are now secured by default.
  • A new Client App is automatically created for each execution environment.
  • The Digital Distributed Container are now connecting back to the Digital Enterprise Suite using OIDC to validate users based on that new Client App.
  • For deployment scenarios where a Digital Distributed Container can't connect back to the Digital Enterprise Suite, it is possible to override that behavior.
• The Digital Enteprise Suite now supports logging using the JSONL format (using GCP schema).
• Pasting multiple lines of text in an enumeration definition now creates multiple enumerations entries.
• A new option allows to hide inner data inputs from being displayed on the form when executing a user or manual task.
• The client hosted configuration for HTTPS certificate was simplified to accept PEM certificates and keys.
• The sub-menus of the data type menus are now shown on mouse-over.
• Collection and ranges in the data type selector are now grouped.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing a diff after a version has been published.
• The option to create a token was incorrectly offered on data objects when testing a model.
• Tokens in error could not be moved anymore when testing a model.
• The font size is now properly imported from DMN XML.
• Automatic translation was ignoring description, notes and examples fields.