What's New

You can now update data in complex list items from either process data or other expressions.

For example, in an Order app with a list of Orderlines you can find and assign a reference to the first Orderline matching a given condition. This allows you to access and update that Orderline's data via the temporary field.

You can now use the Component Explorer to use components to help you build custom apps.

Live Apps Components compliment the API to allow you to easily build custom apps. You can use components to create cases, run case actions and open work items.

Add annotations to process diagrams

You can now add text annotations to process diagrams. You can add up to 1000 characters of text and drag and resize each annotation as needed, which will allow designers to make notes on their designs.

In calculations, you can select specific groups as parameters for conditional assignment, copy, add to list and remove from list functions. You can unset field values using the conditional assignment and copy functions. We’ve added a new “Company Review” template to demonstrate how you might use this feature.

You can now lookup users by their email address so they can be used to dynamically populate participant fields. This will allow your application to have dynamic access control and user task behavior, dependent on case or other input data.

You can now assign data using the following conditions in the where clause of lookup from a list:

• contains any of
• contains at least
• contains only
• contains none of

You can now add individual or multiple items to a list. You can also remove individual or multiple items from a list.

You can now see a graphical view of your application which shows the flow between states and the actions that progress the application between the states.

This provides an overview of the state flow that is configured in the application actions’ state availability and task exit-state configurations within the action editor. You can use the hyperlinks on the actions to open the editor for the action.

You can now specify conditions based on a user's selections from a picklist.

Create a text list in your application data and in the Restrictions properties provide a set of predefined values. In a conditional flow or a calculation task conditional assignment expression, name this list and select one of the following operations. Then select the relevant predefined values to check against.

4 new conditional expressions can be used:

• contains any of
• contains at least
• contains only
• contains none of

This will allow designers to simplify their process design by using these expressions directly in conditional flows or assignments.

You can now use participant User, Group and Weblink fields in copy, conditional assignment and lookup functions.

You can now use copy and conditional assignment to populate lists.

Rather than start your creator and action processes with a single form where you want a user to enter some data, you can now choose whether you want any other tasks to be performed before the case creation or action is initiated. You can:

• Fetch data from a company data service or perform a calculation as input to the form that the user submits.
• Have the user provide some initial input before fetching and calculating data. The user then completes and submits the form.

You can now quickly and easily create a phrase in a data calculation task. For example, you can create a phrase like this one:

Customer Order: Order/ID approved by Process Starter/Name

You can now assign values to data fields based on a condition using the Conditional assignment function. This allows you to define simple conditions without having to design conditional flows and separate calculation tasks in a process.

Using the Get data from all matching list items function, you can look up items in a list, and copy them to another list. This is useful if your process contains tasks that are dependent on data that is contained in the list.

You can also use the Get data from first matching item function to look up a single item from a list.

You can now define multiple conditions for each flow in your process. This is useful if you have a more complex process that contains tasks that are dependent on more than one condition.

TIBCO Scribe® Online Connector for TIBCO Cloud™ Live Apps allows you to build data integrations between TIBCO® Live Apps applications and any combination of other cloud-based and on-premise applications. From TIBCO Scribe®, you can connect to a Live Apps service, find and retrieve your case information, create cases and perform case actions.

Any API call to a TIBCO® Live Apps service must include valid authentication information. You can include authentication information using the methods provided by the Authentication Service.

For more information about how to use these methods, see "Authenticating API Access to TIBCO Cloud™ Live Apps Services" in the TIBCO Cloud™ Live Apps API, at <liveapps domain>/apps/api-explorer/index.html.

You can now add a task to a Live Apps creator or action process and configure it to log Live Apps events to a shared audit log in TIBCO Cloud™ AuditSafe. This is useful if your Live Apps application is participating in applications using several cloud services in your organization and you want to quickly and easily get an overall view of what has happened for a whole instance of a business process.

An improved application view in TIBCO Cloud™ Live Apps Administrator allows you to quickly and easily see your most relevant applications. For example, the applications that are ready to publish. Secondly, you can also see more applications at a glance.

You can use the TIBCO Cloud™ Live Apps API to start a case creator or a case action for an application. You do this by using a combination of methods provided by the Authorization Engine Service, the Case Manager Service and the Business Process Management Service.

For more information about how to use these methods, see "Starting Case Creators or Case Actions" in the TIBCO Cloud™ Live Apps API, at <liveapps domain>/apps/api-explorer/index.html.

A case action can now be configured to automatically start after a defined period of time when a case reaches a certain state or states. This is useful if you want to specify a period of time that a case can be in a particular state or states before some remedial action is taken.

A new web link data type that records a URL is available. Using the web link data type:

• An application user can record a URL to a document available from another company data system.
• Allows your application to receive a URL to a document available from another company data system.

An improved application view allows you to see more of your applications at a glance.

You can collaborate with other application users by adding comments about a case. You can view, add and reply to comments using the Comments button.

A new type of data field allows you to access your case documents from a URL.

TIBCO Cloud Live Apps Case Manager is now available in Spanish, specifically the es-ES locale.