Automise 3 Version History

Automise Core

• Bug - Action Output Monitor - Fixed Match first and last being out of order.
• Bug - Fixed IntegerOverflow exception due to GetTickCount wraparound.
• Bug - Fixed Log corruption issue.
• Bug - Include Project Action - Backported fixes from FB7.
• Feature - Added Windows SDK 7.1 location detection.

Automise IDE

• Bug - Fixed potential access violation when scheduler api returns error when retrieving task object.
• Bug - Welcome Page - Fixed exception when multiple instances are loading the RSS feed.

Actions

• Bug - HTTP Get File - Fixed space encoding in URL.
• Bug - Mutex Action - Fixed unknown wait error when mutex action had no runnable child actions.
• Bug - Output Monitors - Fixed results not be in the correct order.
• Bug - RoboCopy Action - Changed default value for Delay to 0ms.
• Bug - Send Email Action - Improved error handling for server disconnects.
• Bug - Zip Action - IncludeHiddenFiles property was not being persisted.
• Change - Mutex Action - Updated to allow for cases where the mutex is abandoned by previous owner.
• Change - Web Service - Fixed error handling on web service load.

Automise Core

• Bug - Fixed IntegerOverflow exception due to GetTickCount wraparound

Automise IDE

• Bug - Welcome Page - fixed exception when multiple instances are loading the RSS feed

Actions

• Change - Mutex Action - Updated to allow for cases where the mutex is abandoned by previous owner

Automise IDE

• Bug - Example project links on the welcome page were not working.

Actions

• Bug - Action Output Monitor - Fixed Match first and last being out of order.
• Bug - Fixed suppress output monitor not working.
• Feature - Added Windows SDK 7.1 location detection.

Automise IDE

• Bug - Action List - Reinstated single click to edit action description.
• Bug - Fixed AV when clicking on column in Variable Edit dialog.
• Change - Changed location of example projects to be in the public documents folder.

Actions

• Bug - Execute Program action - Handled missing variable exceptions so that the action fails rather than resulting in a stack trace.
• Bug - GUI Automation - Wait for Window or control action - Fixed hang when stop or terminate pressed.
• Bug - GUI Automation Actions - Fixed caching issue with support assembly being uloaded.
• Bug - HTTP Get File - Fixed space encoding in URL.
• Bug - Mutex Action - Fixed unknown wait error when mutex action had no runnable child actions.
• Bug - Output Monitors - Fixed results not being in the correct order.
• Bug - Read XML to variable action - Improved error handling.
• Bug - RoboCopy Action - Changed default value for Delay to 0ms.
• Bug - Zip Action - IncludeHiddenFiles property was not being persisted.
• Change - Run Action List Action - No longer fails if action list is empty.
• Change - Send MSN Message - Action now uses multiple signins, can send messages to offline contacts and will sign out correctly.
• Change - VMWare Execute Guest Command - Added option to log command arguments.
• Change - Web Service - Fixed error handling on web service load.
• Feature - Added option to set Application Pool Id and default document for new web sites.

Automise IDE

• Bug - Actions can no longer be dragged onto Comment action nodes in an action list.

Actions

• Feature - SQL Restore - Added option to restore log and specify destination location.
• Change - Wait for Window - Increased the max characters returned for caption of edit controls to 65535.
• Bug - Create Directory - Path was not being trimmed which caused action to fail when path contained a new line.
• Bug - IIS 7 Actions - Properties were being expanded in the validate action event causing them to fail.
• Bug - VMWare ViX Actions - Fixed quoting when executing guest command.
• Bug - XCopy - Action was not deleting temporary files created by itself.

Automise Core

• Bug - When setting an environment variable fails, an exception is now raised (it used to fail silently).

ActionStudio

• Bug - Action Studio - Fixed bug with duplicated control event scripts.
• Bug - Action Studio - Fixed bug with control events not being saved.

Actions

• Bug - 7-Zip Create Archive - Fixed archive password not being expanded.
• Bug - Add Scheduled Task - Incorrect Start Date was provided when system locale set to use m/dd/yyyy.
• Bug - Define Variable - Action would fail if existing variable value was not compariable to the new default value.
• Bug - SFTP - Fixed password being saved as plain text in the project file.
• Bug - SFTP Actions - Connect action would not always fail when connection couldn't be established.
• Bug - SFTP Actions - Received server key was not being cleared when disconnecting.
• Bug - XCopy - Action was not deleting temporary files created by itself.
• Change - MSN Messenger - Updated action to use new MSNPSharp library (dotMSN is obsolete).
• Change - SFTP Actions - Error messages no longer display a stacktrace, unless unexpected.

Automise Core

• Bug - Action Studio - Fixed bug with duplicated control event scripts.
• Bug - All Actions - Fixed issue with output monitors interfering with exception logging.

Automise IDE

• Bug - Options dialog - Fixed hang when searching with the word 'use'.
• Bug - Variable Sense - Fixed bug with new lines being removed during insert.

Actions

• Change - Text Find Action - Case Sensitive option now available and used when Regular Expression used.
• Bug - All Actions - Output Monitors were not being reset when retrying action via Retries options.
• Bug - Async Group Actions - Action List parameters did not work when Async groups were nested.
• Bug - Define Variable - Fixed leading zero's being removed.
• Bug - Image Manipulation Action - Fixed Image resize aspect ratio issue.
• Bug - List Iterator - Skipping blank lines option would cause the last line to also be skipped if it contained only a single character.
• Bug - Text Find/Replace - Replacement string changes made in the OnFindText script event were not being used.
• Bug - Text Find/Replace - Wildcard substitution was broken after updating to new RegEx library.
• Bug - VMWare Actions - Copy file from Guest/Host to Guest/Host command was backwards.

Automise Core

• Bug - All Actions - Errors property waas not reset when run in a loop.
• Bug - FileSets - Fixed issue with exclude patterns and leading delimeter.
• Feature - Switch Action - Added AllowBlankValue Property, errors now raise exceptions.

Automise IDE

• Bug - Fixed variable Watch issue with Action List Parameters.
• Bug - Variable Sense parser - fixed issue with ')'.

ActionStudio

• Bug - Fixed incorrect code in the default Javascript for Iterator actions in ActionStudio.

Actions

• Bug - Define Variable - Changed the way we compare whether the variable values are equal to prevent InvalidArg exception.
• Bug - Define Variable - When variable already exists and current value is not convertable to a string an unhandled exception would be raised.
• Bug - Define Variables - Fixed crash when value is not the same type as the default value.
• Bug - Fixed bug introduced in 6.3 when uploading a fileset with sub - directories.
• Bug - List Iterator - Skipping blank lines would cause the last line to also be skipped if it contained only a single character.
• Bug - Registry Actions - Added missing constants to scripting.
• Bug - Send Email - Put guard into to protect against Divide By Zero exception when calculating progress.
• Bug - SMTP Action - Improved error handling in Individual Mode.
• Bug - XML Merge Action - fixed cryptic error message when overwriting source file 1.
• Feature - Added Erase Ini File Section Action.
• Feature - Set Registry Value Action - added support for REG_EXPAND_SZ.
• Feature - SMTP Action - exposed RecipientsList.Remove method to scripting.
• Feature - SQLServer Action - Added LogCommandLine option.

Automise Core

• Bug - Fixed & escaping issue.
• Bug - Fixed stepping bug with nested Try/Finally blocks where an exception occurs in the first block before the nested Try
• Bug - Output captured from stdout was throwing away tabs
• Bug - Stop messages posted by a monitor from being processed by the monitor. Also make AllMatchesToVariable, LastMatchToVariable and MatchCount to variable work as designed
• Bug - Fixed installer from adding duplicate entries in the %PATH% variable.
• Feature - Back ported improvements to pretty xml formatter from mainline branch

Automise IDE

• Bug - Fix for variable completion replacing text after variable
• Bug - Fixed av when moving group nodes in Variables Dialog
• Bug - Fixed crash with action running frame when running parallel actions
• Bug - Fixed hang in Variables Dialog when editing group name
• Bug - Save dialog will now default to the projects directory when saving a new project

Actions

• Bug - ADO Dataset Iterator - Fixed numeric column types causing errors.
• Bug - Beyond Compare - Action would fail if the files were the same and 'Fail if Similiar' was checked regardless of whether 'Fail if Match' was checked or not.
• Bug - Create ISO - Show hidden files was always enabled when browsing for files
• Bug - XML Iterator Action - Enhanced XPath generation for resulting nodes
• Bug - Send Email Action - Fixed bug where missing attachment would cause body to be encode incorrectly
• Bug - IniFile Iterator Action - Fixed not iterating all sections on large Ini Files
• Bug - Create XML Node Action - Fixed issue with empty namespace attributes
• Bug - Fixed WinRAR Options script object registration breaks CVS Options script object
• Bug - FTP Download File - Action no longer created the local file when the remote file does not exist.
• Bug - Save XML Document - Application would crash when the XML Document did not exist.
• Bug - SFTP List Files - Fixed Log Variables to Variable combo box not being persisted when closing action properties
• Bug - VMWare Server - Removed empty - H parameter when connecting to the localhost.
• Bug - Windows Installer - Install - Fixed action so that it doesn't fail if the file doens't exist locally when remotely installing on another machine
• Bug - WinRAR - Added command argument to force encoding to be ANSI
• Change - Create Website Action - Added additional error message when locating next free web site index
• Change - MultiQuestion Action - Changed Variable Combo dropdown width
• Change - Ping Example (Script) - Updated action to use the Execute Program action type
• Change - Send Email - Added message - id email header.
• Change - Windows Installer - Fixed error reporting of the Windows Installer actions.
• Change - WinRAR - Changed option depending on which version of WinRAR is installed
• Feature - Write To Text File Action - Added Expand Variables option
• Feature - Added option to read 64 - bit registry keys
• Feature - Added Pretty Format XML option to Save XML Document Action
• Feature - Added Stack/Queue Contains Action
• Feature - ADO Iterator - Added option of specify a value when the data value is null
• Feature - Delete Registry Key/Valuie - Recursive option added to delete all child keys and values.
• Feature - Read XML Action - Enhanced to allow using comment and attributes node types

Automise Core

• Bug - Fixed issue with disabling WoW64 redirection which was preventing redirection being re-enabled.
• Bug - Fixed issue with Execute Program Action with relative paths on 64-bit windows
• Bug - Fixed installer copying duplicate assemblies into multiple locations within the Automise program files folder.
• Feature - Added ability to get error information into variables in the Catch Action.

Automise IDE

• Bug - Fixed access violation when moving group nodes in Variables Dialog.

Actions

• Bug - Fixed auto description of 7zip Update Archive Action.
• Change - Enabled Double Click on CD/DVD File List box.
• Change - Write to Text File - Added scroll bars to memo field.

Automise Core

• Bug - Fixed Action List parameters not available through FBVariables in Powershell and Python scripts.
• Bug - Fixed issue with running programs in System32 on 64bit windows.
• Bug - Fixed Stepping bug where IDE hangs after stepping into OnFailure list.
• Change - Updated Copyright information for 2009.

Actions

• Feature - Added Beyond Compare 3 Support.
• Feature - Added support for editing CDATA nodes in Edit XML Action.
• Change - Defrag action is now supported on 64-bit operating systems.
• Bug - Create Zip Action - When forward slashes were used in path spec the path was always stored in the zip file regardless of the 'Store Path' setting.
• Bug - Fixed "Variable Replace" action inserting a CRLF at the end of the string.
• Bug - ADSI Enumerate Groups - Password field was not being saved.
• Bug - GUI Automation - Fixed crash when selecting a process with a . in its name.

Help

• Bug - Added missing quick help for the Windows Installer actions.