Chapter 2. New features

The Red Hat Process Automation Manager image naming and tagging conventions have changed. Starting with Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.5.0, the major and minor version is part of the tag itself, along with the micro version. Additionally, the suffix -openshift is replaced with -rhel[version] to signify the underlying operating system version. For example:

Three reference implementations are available that you can use as starter applications. They are provided in the Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.5.1 Reference Implementations download, available on the Red Hat Process Automation Manager Software Downloads page in the Red Hat Customer Portal.

The Decision Model and Notation (DMN) designer in Business Central includes the following notable enhancements:

For more information about DMN support in Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.5, see the following resources:

You can convert a guided decision table in Business Central to an XLS spreadsheet decision table file for offline reference and file sharing. The guided decision table must be an extended entry guided decision table in order to be converted. The conversion tool does not support limited entry guided decision tables. To convert a guided decision table, navigate to the guided decision table asset that you want to convert and in the upper-right toolbar of the guided decision tables designer, click Convert to XLS.

In the Task Inbox and Tasks pages in Business Central, you can now perform bulk reassignment over multiple tasks in a single operation. To reassign tasks in bulk, select two or more tasks, click the Bulk Actions menu in the upper-right corner of the window, and select Bulk Reassign.

In the Tasks reassignment window, enter the user identifier of the user to reassign the tasks to, and click Delegate. For each task selected, a notification is displayed showing the reassignment result.

In the Task Inbox and Tasks pages in Business Central, you can now perform bulk actions over multiple tasks in a single operation. To update tasks in bulk, select two or more tasks, click the Bulk Actions menu in the upper-right corner of the window, and select one of the following bulk actions:

If a specified bulk action is not permitted based on the task status, a notification is displayed and the operation is not executed on that task.

The following list provides a summary of process designer updates:

You can now import and export Dashbuilder data as ZIP files. To import and export Dashbuilder data, select the Admin icon in the upper-right corner of the Business Central window and select Dashbuilder Data Transfer.

The test scenarios designer in Business Central is now available with the new features supported in Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.5.

You can now configure the queue size for the planning engine in a Process Server. The queue size determines how many solver requests can be enqueued to wait for processing while the engine is working on other requests. If the queue is full, new requests are rejected. The default queue size is equal to the number of active CPU cores. To change the queue size, set the org.optaplanner.server.ext.thread.pool.queue.size system property for the Process Server.

When you deploy Red Hat Process Automation Manager on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform using the Business Automation Operator, you can now enable automatic minor and patch version updates.

If you enable automatic patch updates, when a new version becomes available all components of your deployment are updated automatically. Normally, there is no interruption in service.

You can now configure container aliases for services running on immutable Process Servers on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. If you use Smart Router, it automatically routes requests to Process Servers based on the alias name specified in the requests.