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  • Welcome to Tailent Automation Platform documentation
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  • Getting Started
    • State Machine Approach
    • TAP Studio
      • How to install TAP Studio
      • TAP Studio Overview
      • Variables and Data Types
      • Transitions
        • Normal transitions
        • Exception transitions
      • How to Create a New Automation Project in TAP Studio
      • How to add an Activity to Favorites
      • How to Open an Existing Automation Project in TAP Studio
      • How to Save an Automation Project
      • Control Identifiers in UI Browser
      • List of Activities that use Control Identifier as Input Parameter
      • Press Key - Values of Key parameter
      • Outlook vs standard IMAP protocol
      • Hardware & Software Requirements TAP Studio
    • TAP Assistant
      • Basic Scheduling
      • Setting Custom Log Sizes
    • TAP Frequenty Asked Questions
  • Actions
    • TAP Actions
      • CSV
        • Append CSV
        • Read CSV
        • Write CSV
      • Application
        • Kill Process
        • Start Process
        • Wait for Control
      • Clipboard
        • Get Clipboard Text
        • Set Clipboard Text
      • Control
        • If Control Exists
        • Wait for Control to Disappear
        • Check Control
        • Select List Item
        • Set Focus
        • Set Text
        • Get Value
        • Get Native Value
        • Get Window State
        • Set Window State
      • Custom
        • C# Script
      • Data
        • JSON Deserialization
      • Database
        • Connect To Database
        • Database Query
        • Database Non Query
        • Disconnect From Database
      • Diagram
        • Invoke Workflow
        • Sequence
      • Direct text
        • Click Text
        • Extract Direct Text
      • Excel
        • Write Table
        • Set Range Color
        • Rename Sheet
        • Read Range
        • Read Cell Formula
        • Insert Rows
        • Insert Columns
        • Format Range
        • Fill Rows
        • Fill Columns
        • Delete Sheet
        • Delete Rows
        • Delete Columns
        • Create Sheet
        • Clear Range
        • Open Excel WorkBook
        • Close Excel WorkBook
        • Get Cell Value
        • Set Cell Value
      • Flow
        • Assign Value
        • Show Message Box
        • Wait
      • Loging
        • Log to FIle
        • Write to Console
      • IO
        • Copy File
        • Create Directory
        • Create File
        • Delete Directory
        • Delete File
        • Move File
        • Read Text File
        • Write To File
      • Keyboard
        • Press Key
        • Type Text
        • Type Password
      • Mail
        • Get Email Messages
        • Move Mail Message
        • Save Email Attachment
        • Get Outlook 365 Emails
        • Save Outlook 365 Attachments
      • Mouse
        • Click Control
        • Click Point
        • Move Mouse
        • Move to Control
        • Click Image
      • Office
        • Word.Replace
        • Get Word Page Count
      • PDF
        • Extract Sections from PDF
        • Get PDF Page Count
        • Read text from PDF
      • UI
        • Assign Control Identifier
      • User
        • Choose File
        • Choose Folder
        • User Input Dialog
      • Visual
        • Get Image
        • Extract Text
      • Web
        • Wait for Page
        • Run JavaScript
        • Wait for Element Attribute
        • Set Element Text
        • Get HTML Element
        • Open Browser
        • Click Element
        • Get HTML
        • HTTP REST Request
      • ZIP
        • Add to ZIP
        • Extract ZIP
  • TAP Release Updates
    • Release Updates
      • TAP Release Notes 24.8
      • TAP Release Notes 24.01
      • TAP Release Notes 21.12
      • TAP Release Notes 21.10
      • TAP Release Notes 21.06
      • TAP Release Notes 21.04
      • TAP Release Notes 21.02
      • TAP Release Notes 20.12
      • TAP Release Notes 20.11
      • TAP Release Notes 20.09
  • Use Cases
    • Use Cases
      • TAP Studio - Define Invoices Naming Convention
      • TAP Studio - Extract Accounting Data from Invoices
      • TAP Studio - Control Identifier Fine Tuning
      • TAP Studio - Move File
      • TAP Studio - Download Invoices from Email and Move Emails
      • TAP Studio - How to input invoice data into an Accounting System
      • TAP Studio - How to open all desired files of a certain type in a folder
      • TAP Studio - How to parse a custom excel date format without errors
  • Knowledge Base
  • Scripting Utility Classes
    • Tailent.Control Class
      • Tailent.Control.ControlExists
    • Tailent.Console Class
      • Tailent.Console.WriteLine
    • Tailent.StringUtils Class
      • Tailent.StringUtils.FuzzSetMatching
    • Common Scripts Repository
      • C# Scripts Repository
        • Read Excel
        • Write Excel
        • Add LOV in Excel
        • Change Excel Cell Color
        • RegexSplit (Text Filtering)
        • Start a process
        • Filter HTML Contents
        • Reading CSV Contents
        • LINQ Filtering
        • Data Conversion
          • Double to DateTime
  • Solution Migration
  • Microsoft 365 Automation
    • Creating an application Instance
  • Remote Desktop Automation
    • Setting up the remote context
  • Knowledge Base
    • Configuring Proxy Servers
    • tap.runtime.config - Debug flag
    • Unblocking Action .dll Files
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  • PDF Actions
  • SQL Actions
  • Dynamic Control Identifiers
  • Improved HTTP REST Request action
  • Other Improvements and actions
  • Resolved Issues

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  1. TAP Release Updates
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TAP Release Notes 21.12

Tailent Automation Platform v21.12 offers RPA users and developers a wider arsenal of tools at their disposal, for automating and integrating even more applications and systems. We have added prebuilt actions for interacting with PDF documents and SQL database systems. Other features and improvements offer stability and performance enhancements for a more streamlined experience.

New features

PDF Actions

TAP Studio now offers support for interacting with PDF documents directly, without any third party requirements:

  • Reading content directly from electronic PDF files

  • Reading sections for efficiently scraping PDF data sources with multiple entries, such as tables

  • Reading page count for extracting page count from PDF documents

SQL Actions

We have added support for working with relational database systems directly through prebuilt TAP Studio actions:

  • Connect to database instance, with secure credential storage and connection string support for more advanced developers

  • Disconnect from database instances for efficient resource usage

  • Database Query for issuing custom SQL queries against the target RDBS instance

  • Database Non Query for using specific SQL queries

Dynamic Control Identifiers

With Dynamic Control Identifiers, RPA users can create more flexible UI control definitions. This allows them to reference dynamic controls at run-time, which can adapt to any conditions. This is done through a dedicated TAP Studio action which offers full support for variable and C# expressions.

Improved HTTP REST Request action

The HTTP REST Request action has received a major update and now offers full support for additional POST messages and authentication. A cookie persistence system has also been implemented, allowing multiple REST requests to share a common set of cookies across an automation context. This is particularly valuable for web APIs that feature some sort of cookie authentication/authorization mechanisms.

The HTTP REST Request action also feature multiple ease of use improvements as it is now easier than ever to build header and parameters for each request, all with a dedicated editing pane that offers full support for variables and expressions:

Other Improvements and actions

  • Word Page Count action for retrieving page count from Word (.docx) files. This action does not have any third party application requirements and can function without any Microsoft Office products installed on the target system.

  • Added Drag and Drop support for mouse interaction actions, through two new button states.

  • Added Tailent.Console scripting utility, which allows developers to write information to the debug console, directly from C# Scripts. Until now, the only way to extract information was to either display it using message boxes or by writing to files.

  • Added support for HTML Agility Pack for C# scripting; this allows users to quickly and efficiently utilize this open-source third party library for parsing HTML DOM content and is an invaluable enhancement along the dedicated Chrome extension.

  • Added a new feature where TAP Studio checks to see if the automation solution has been created with a newer version that the one running, in order to ensure solution consistency.

Resolved Issues

This release of TAP Studio comes with many fixes and corrections:

  • Bug #381 - Fixed an issue where some Windows regional settings would partially corrupt some automation solutions.

  • Bug #382 - Fixed an issue where the debug console would not display the correct action label name when finishing execution for that particular action.

  • Bug #385 - Fixed issue where solutions created with a particular set of older TAP Studio versions would cause TAP Studio to crash.

  • Bug #396 - Various improvements and bug fixes to the pipe communication channel between the native Chrome extension application and TAP workflow engine. These improvements fix a number of communication issues for Chrome automations and offer support to read/write to larger sized DOMs.

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