Chapter 2. New features

The following list provides a summary of the Business Central UI updates:

For more information, see Designing a decision service using guided decision tables and Designing a decision service using spreadsheet decision tables.

Support for expressions, multiple BRL columns, and rule order hit policy is now available when a guided decision table is exported to excel. For more information, see Designing a decision service using guided decision tables.

When typing a FEEL expression in the boxed literal expression editor, you can now see node names appear as suggestions that you can apply to complete the expression if required.

You can now use Metadata Attributes property and manage the generic attributes of a business process. For more information, see Process designer Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN2) reference guide.

The Red Hat Process Automation Manager process designer now supports variable tagging for the business processes including required, readonly, restricted, and customTags tags. For more information, see Designing business processes in Business Central.

Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.8 includes additional support for further customizing the case identifier generation. For more information, see Designing and building cases for case management.

Users can apply their migration plan to the running process instance in a specific KIE Server. For more information, see Managing and monitoring business processes in Business Central.

Red Hat Process Automation Manager7.8 provides support to view reusable subprocess from the parent process. Reusable subprocesses appear collapsed within the parent process. You can double-click on the reusable subprocess node to open its diagram from the parent process diagram. For more information, see Managing and monitoring business processes in Business Central.

The prediction service for task augmentation is integrated with Open Data Hub Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine learning (ML) services. There is a proof of concept (POC) available for Fraud Detection.

You can now perform Security Management actions and update space components using the REST API:

For more information, see Interacting with Red Hat Process Automation Manager using KIE APIs.

The test scenarios designer in Business Central now supports the enumeration data type in rule-based test scenarios.

The new executable model optimization improves memory consumption at runtime. It rewrites how the lambdas are generated that are used in the executable model. The lambda externalization is enabled by default. To disable the lambda externalization, use the following key:

 -Ddrools.externaliseCanonicalModelLambda=false

For more information, see Decision engine in Red Hat Process Automation Manager.

You can now start a business process from a specific node after the business process is terminated.

Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.8 includes two new jBPM properties. These org.kie.jpbm.notification_listeners.include and org.kie.jpbm.notification_listeners.exclude properties are used to enable and disable notification listeners.

Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.8 includes an OR operator to define query filters.

The Constraint Streams API is now fully supported.

KIE Server optimization and business process management capabilities are integrated so human tasks that belong to a process can be automatically assigned to users based on continuous schedule optimization planning.

The vehicle route planning starter application includes user interface improvements, server error reporting, and a new run script.

You can now deploy Red Hat Process Automation Manager on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5.

You can now create and use custom KIE Server images with additional JAR or RPM packages. For more information about creating custom images, see Creating custom images for KIE Server in Deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform using Operators.

When configuring Git hooks for Business Central on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x, you can now configure SSH authentication for access to custom Git repositories. For more information about preparing Git hooks for deployment, see Preparing Git hooks in Deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform using Operators.

Red Hat Process Automation Manager images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform now have labels that enable the use of OpenShift metering. For more information about using metering, see Metering in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform documentation.

You can now deploy a production environment for Red Hat Process Automation Manager on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x with a simplified version of Business Central monitoring that does not require ReadWriteMany access to a persistent volume. For more information about deploying Red Hat Process Automation Manager on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x, see Deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager environment using the operator in Deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform using Operators.

You can now deploy the Process Instance Migration (PIM) service on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x. You can use the PIM service to define the migration between two different process definitions, known as a migration plan. You can then apply the migration plan to the running process instances in a specific KIE Server.

For more information about deploying Red Hat Process Automation Manager on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x, see Deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager environment using the operator in Deploying a Red Hat Process Automation Manager environment on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform using Operators.