Infor OS CE: Feature Rollout for August 2021

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August 13, 2021

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Release Highlights

Release Highlights screenshot

Intelligent Digital Assistance

  • Loosening Skill Build Restrictions:
    • Allows skill builders more flexibility while waiting for skills to build. This includes creating, editing, deleting skills and requirement types.
Screenshot Coleman Digital Assistant

Enterprise Application Integration

  • Increased ION API Task timeout (5 mins):
    • ‘IONAPI’ task within API flow now have a timeout of 5 mins.
Screenshot Infor ION API
  • API Flows – Improved error handling:
    • Error handling related to handling higher payloads are improved in API Flows.
Screenshot of API Flows – Improved error handling
  • Preview Features:
    • Preview features are early releases for new functionality, where the solution may not be complete for all business cases. Switch a preview on to use it in production if the provided functionality is sufficient for your situation, or try it out in a development or test tenant.
Infor ION Service screenshot
  • Data Loader:
    • The Data Loader is offering possibility to select many tables and upload all columns to Data Lake.
Screenshot of Data Loader
  • Custom Port for SFTP:
    • The default SFTP port number 22 can be changed to any port in range 1-65535.
Screenshot connection points custom port for sftp
  • Filter Options in Inbox Utility App:
    • Select the filter icon in the Inbox utility app to apply filter criteria to the list of messages. The same filters as in the main Inbox application are applied.
ION Desk status overview dashboard

Data Fabric

  • Improved file format iconography:
    • Relevant file format icons are displayed for recognized content when uploaded to the testing tab.
Screenshot Infor ION desk
  • Source Publication Date Property:
    • Publishing applications are now able to provide a timestamp representing the time at which they published a data object to a transport interface.
Screenshot of Source Publication Date Property
  • Compass Views:
    • Query developers can now create and query views within the Compass query platform.
Screenshot of Compass View
  • Indexing Compass Views:
    • Views created via the Compass query platform see their metadata registered within a new section of Data Catalog.
Screenshot of Indexing Compass Views
  • Metadata Crawler:
    • The Data Catalog Metadata Crawler can connect to database connection points and walk users through a step-by-step wizard to index database schemas for simplified registration.
Screenshot of Metadata Crawler
  • Embedded Schema Wizard:
    • Infor applications can now pass sample data objects and launch the schema generation wizard.
Screenshot of Embedded Schema Wizard

A similar set of features will be available in the next on-premise release of Infor OS. A full list of new features, bugs fixed, and other documentation can be found on the Infor Support Portal.  Learn more about Infor OS here or contact us anytime.

Don't see a feature you want?  Log into the Infor Support Portal and click on Resources > Enhancement Requests.  You can enter your own and vote for others.

For more information on product updates, please see the release training that is available to customers on Infor Campus.

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