Exchange Action
- type filter property now properly allows AutoMate expressions
- PropertyName and PropertyValue fields now support AutoMate expressions
AutoMate Script Action
- highlighting a command in the BASIC IDE and pressing F1 would not redirect to the correct help file topic
Misc
- process descriptions for some of the AutoMate executables were not correct in Windows Task Manager
- several actions generated incorrect AML when using If Older Than or If Newer Than options
- Browse button would not work when the associated text field contained a drive and path with no trailing slash
- WindowClass element was missing from trigger object
- On Error Continue option was ignored in subtasks
Task Builder
- version and build information was missing from the About dialog
- serial number was not displaying on the About dialog
- using the Evaluation dialog to extend trials was not working
- Expression Builder button was not always visible on the edge of the On Error page
- CTRL+A does did not select all in multiline text edit controls
- pasting multiple AM6 steps when one or more of those steps did not contain a \> would cause steps from that point to not be pasted
- using the Expression Builder on combo box fields would improperly overwrite the previous contents
- no longer allows blank action names when renaming a custom action
- no longer allowing the same action to be added more than once to a category
- renaming an action using the same name will suggest a different action name
- Reset Interface now sets the Available Actions to its default state
- added an AutoMate 7 theme to the Editor Options \Colors.
- corrected Add Attachment dialog's icon
- corrected Access Violation that would occur if an AML steps was being edited and AMTB was closed
- changed the popup menu option from ‘Alphabetical’ to ‘Sort’
- added more options to the Available Actions popup menu
Task Administrator
- version and build information was missing from the About dialog
- using the Evaluation dialog to extend trials was not working
- serial number was not displaying on the About dialog
File Trigger
- fixed issue that would could occur if more than 20 file triggers attached to the same file on 64-bit machines
XML Node To Dataset Action
- referred to Xpath location as 'Xpath Xpath location' in visual mode
Create Variable Action
- was not correctly barring Dim and Name as variable names
SNMP Trap Trigger
- renamed from SNMP Trap Watcher trigger
Print Action
- filenames with brackets in the name prevented the file from printing
SQL Query Action
- SQL queries against Excel caused the worksheet to be locked until the task that executed the query ended
Terminal Actions
- Timeout and Error Causes values were not populating correctly when editing an existing terminal step
Wait For File Action
- now works correctly with multiple files and file masks
Send E-mail Action
- corrected invalid text error on certain files when used as mail body
- would not correctly error if an invalid expression was found in the body parameter
Exchange Action
- was incorrectly flagging email deleted when retrieving all messages using Get Messages option.
- selecting an existing PropertyName would resets the associated PropertyValue
- "(Please Enter Text)" text would be stored in the step's AML if the OK button was pressed but the values were not changed
Create Variable Action
- editing an existing Create Variable step in AML view did not always make the variable available in Task Builder dropdowns
- output message had the Type and Object strings reversed
If Text Contains Action
- improved reliability especially when using AutoMate variables
Send E-mail Action
- the To: field is now automatically selected when the step is displayed
- would not send extended ASCII characters when body is from a file
- variables in Send Email Action email body were not evaluating on subtasks
- corrected issue with server timeouts when certain anti-virus software is installed on the user system
- now correctly handles sending authenticated email without specifying credentials on domains where the user is already authenticated
FTP Logon Action
- in non-compatibility mode, user can now specify a password when using SFTP and a Public key file
Terminal Actions
- were not retaining parameters when an existing step was opened for editing
SQL Query Action
- querying an Office 2003 MSAccess or Office 2003 Excel file could cause the step to hang
- UPDATE and INSERT queries would not change execute correctly when the datasource was an Excel spreadsheet file
- using predefined connection string would not work in subtasks
Set Date and Time Action
- the server field's Expression Builder button was being covered by Port field
Create Object Action
- would not allow a Property Value to contain an AutoMate expression
FTP Advanced Action
- using Get Short List was returning extraneous data with short file list
- using Get Long List did not work with wildcards on SSH connections
FTP Actions
- corrected "500 Invalid command" errors that occurred with some FTP servers
Synchronize Folders Action
- invalid folders were not properly treated as errors
Replace Text Action
- using the Regular Expression option with certain invalid expression would cause the step to hang
Create XML Node Action
- now allows creating a node with an empty namespace
Cryptography Actions
- now properly supports multiple input files
- now properly supports AutoMate variables as parameter values
Delete File Action
- would not correctly delete files when an exclude mask was specified
FTP Change Folder Action
- would throw an unhandled error when specified folder had no leading slash
Message Box Action
- would not auto-press on intervals lower than 500 milliseconds
- expressions resulting in a floating point value would not display leading zeros correctly
Calculate File Checksum Action
- generated MD5 checksums were sometimes incorrect
Decrypt Action
- OpenPGP passphrases were not working
Loop Files Action
- the include filter would be lost when importing or pasting a Loop Files step from AutoMate 6
FTP Rename Action
- would incorrectly strip subfolder information from the file, essentially moving files to the root folder upon rename
Wait For Window Action
- timeout options were missing from the Advanced tab
If Action
- "complex" option was reset to "simple" when editing an IF step regardless of whether or not "complex" was originally selected
Ping Action
- no longer requires elevation to work correctly on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
Interactivity Actions
- Window selector was allowing controls in the tray to be selected
- editing a control from the Contents page would sometimes edit the wrong value
File System Trigger
- renamed from File Watcher trigger
Key Trigger
- when using AutoKeys with "Erase text after triggering" enabled, the text would be deleted even if the associated task was disabled
Schedule Trigger
- custom schedule would only triggers the first time
- exclusion on a specific time range was being ignored
- weekly and monthly exclusions in schedule trigger could cause corruption of ATL file and caused CPU spike
Task Service
- task execution speed value was being ignored
- when a task is set to use a specified user and that specified user has different privileges than the currently logged on user, tasks would stop executing after 32 instances
- the error message when default logon user is not specified has been changed
- corrected issue that cause AM7Task.exe to not be able to located some task files
Task Builder
- custom folders under Available Actions were not being retained
- auto-format of steps was not occurring properly in all cases
- AMTB Attachments menu state was not reflecting correctly based on the selected attachment
- saving from the menu in Task Builder with multiple tabs open would sometimes saves changes to the wrong task
- Insert Comment dialog was not using Segoe 9 point font under Vista
- Tools | Editor Options dialog was not using Segoe 9 point under Vista
- pressing the Save and Close button while a task is running would cause AMTB to crash
- pasting script examples with comments from the help file now works correctly
- modifying an Error Action on the On Error Tab would not always show the correct text
- sorting steps and then selecting Undo would cause the step to be deleted
- Task Builder no longer allows files to be dragged onto it while in Managed mode
- subtask step numbers are now correct when reported in the Output window
- windows that are unpinned were not saved and would be pinned next time Task Builder opened
- creating a task with the Recorder would create an invalid task file that could not be opened for editing after save
- attempting to close task properties window while Task Builder is open would display a misleading dialog box
- Find (CTRL-F) on a multiple line comment corrupted the display of carriage-returns
- default location of the Task Builder causes the window to display as split across dual monitors
- Expression Builder was not using Segoe 9pt font on Vista
- Expression Builder was not using the correct icons
- no longer leaves temporary files in the user's Temp directory
- attempting to run an encrypted managed task could causes a crash
- windows that are deselected from viewing were not saved and would display next time Task Builder opened
- extra white space on the bottom of the Task Builder has been removed
- right-clicking a function within the Expression Builder now properly displays the correct help file topic
- wrapped text in comments and tasks was obscured if the scroll bars width was set larger than the system default
- with all document tabs closed, pressing CTRL-V would cause an access violation.
- Expression Builder button was barely visible on edge of Error Action form
Installation
- corrected misleading error message regarding XP SP2
Functions
- IsNull() was not properly identifying null value against MDB field
- Random would always generate the same value
Event Monitor
- Running Task Window sometimes showed percentages greater than 100% if a subtask had more steps than the parent task
- corrected issue that made it unable to change task interruption hotkey
Workflow Designer
- a restricted user was able to copy-paste workflows
- an exception sometimes occurred on exit
- pasting copied items is faster
- added support for High DPI to all dialogs
Server Management Console
- corrected NullReference Exception errors when dragging AML files into repository
- column resizing was becoming disabled in certain cases
- corrected exception when pushing the Build button on SQL Connections when an invalid connect string is in the Value field
- Clear Execution Event button in Server Options was also clearing the audit event log
- the cursor no longer hangs in the wait state after being notified that the user cannot perform an action
- replaced the word "event" with "condition" on the Schedule interface
- renaming Agent or User Groups would not allow changing only case
- Agent Selection List scrolling would close the application unexpectedly
- newly created Agent Groups were not appearing in Select Agent list when run from repository
- Agent/Agent Group help links were pointing to the wrong topic
- corrected crashes that could occur when using Back button to navigate from newly created folders
- auto-refreshing the interface would stop unexpectedly in certain situations
- corrected exception that would occur when using backspace upon startup
- Agent List dialog used to select which agent a task should run on in the repository is now sorted
- fixed keyboard navigation with arrows
- Cut/Copy clipboard is cleared when new user logs in
- on Cut/copy the selected items retain their selection status
- some Dialog windows were missing title
- Performance trigger editing was throwing an error when Thread and Job Object Details option were selected
- when editing an exclusion of type "on specific time range", the To: time reverted to the default value
- user with rights was not able to use the right-click 'Import' on both TreeView and ListView
- Logon panel Run with highest privileges description text no longer goes grey when the panel is disabled
- in Window Condition a Window title/class could not be typed in
- in Service Condition a service name could not be inserted by typing the value in
- in Process Condition a process could not be inserted through OpenFile Dialog or typed in
Agent
- agent icon hover text was missing server name when disconnected
- task priority was not working on parallel task execution
BPA Server
- adjusting Task Priority properties could cause database warnings regarding primary keys to be written to the Windows Event Log
- staging settings would not affect triggering conditions
- corrected System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException
- failure of one branch of a multi-path workflow would sometimes crash the server
- could not stop task or workflow if agent running the task is disconnected or unresponsive
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