New Features

Task Mining

In Timeline 5.3 the Task Mining functionality became much more powerful and user-friendly.

Task Name visualization
In Task Mining projects, you can now easily switch between tasks as between data sets. All views will correspond to the chosen task, and you can change it from any view when needed.

Forms identification
In the new version, Task Mining obtained a fundamentally new approach to recording and analyzing user actions - Forms. A Form is a set of subsequent user actions in one application, window, or a web page. They are detected automatically by the program, and you can check them in the Form Editor view.

Form Editor
A brand-new feature that allows you to review automatically detected forms to improve the Task Definition quality. This helps you to have more control over the result and make the analysis handier and more precise.

Task Definition Editor
Updated Task Definition Editor mechanism, that gives you freedom to set tasks according to your needs. Timeline 5.3 now supports concurrent and parallel tasks, you can set them manually in this interface to ensure maximum accuracy of future analysis. This functionality now offers the following possibilities:

  • Task Definition Actions - In Task Definition Editor you can add a new task definition, drag-and-drop elements from original sequence to a task, rename tasks, select form type (required, removed, etc.), set special cutting mode and also apply and cut logs.
  • Ignore elements - you can select and mark applications, forms or action types as ignored. They will not be presented after cutting logs.
  • Control level - now it is possible to see a task step on a control level. This dialog lists all controls for a selected form and allows a deeper task configuration. Here you can choose a specific control that will be a task start or end instead of the whole form.
  • Single form task - tasks that contain only one form became configurable. In Task Editor you can drag-and-drop one form to the task area and determine it as a full-scaled task for further analysis.

Task View Schema
This is a new feature that allows you to have a graphical representation of data and gives you more task details, important when choosing automation candidates. Starting from Timeline 5.3 you can see the hierarchical logs structure on a graph as a visual result of the Form Editor and Task Definition Editor settings.

The Schema visualizes many different elements and gives you a large variety of display settings as showing percentages, more or less task variation, specific element details and many more. You can: ignore forms and applications so they are not shown in the schema; make a page, application Ad hoc, so they disappear from the main display and are placed into a special ad hoc section; declare that the order of several controls doesn’t matter and some pages or applications are optional; rename pages and applications and add comments to each element on a schema.
For determination of specific detail, Schema allows to display forms that a node contains by double-clicking on it. When expanding a node, the graph restructures itself and displays transitions between the controls of the chosen app and other apps involved in the task analyzed. From here you can go down to controls to take a closer look at a certain workflow step and set up a link to a Process Analysis project from this view.

Timeline

Terms of Service
All the separate Master Service Agreements are unified in the single Terms of Service document for all regions. For new registrations, it is accessible via a link from the modified End User License Agreement window. Existing user can read the new Terms of Service on this page.

ODBC data sources
Set of supported data sources is expanded. Since there are third-party ODBC drivers available for a wide range of databases, in Timeline 5.3 it is possible to upload data from various databases like PostgreSQL, MS SQL and Oracle. The ODBC connector is available as an External Import Adapter in the ETL (Repository) Data Sources configuration.

Blue Prism support
Timeline 5.3 allows integration with Blue Prism Capture. It is now possible to export tasks from Timeline in JSON format to 2.1 and 3.0 Blue Prism Capture versions. Blue Prism Capture – is a simple tool to record, visualize and edit Task Mining processes for further PDD creation or export to Blue Prism Automation.
The presence of this feature depends on your license and additional settings. Export is not allowed for Task Mining Projects by default, first, it has to be enabled in the Admin-app. An export file size limit can be also set there.

Attribute distinct count metric
Timeline 5.3 allows to create a new Metric type to count distinct of an attribute.

Clone projects
You can now create a copy of an existing Process Analysis project with its data. Cloning of Task Mining projects is not supported in Timeline 5.3.

Improved performance for projects in large mode
Internal algorithms are adjusted to assure faster handling of large projects. Timeline 5.3 tends to minimize processing time difference between projects in standard and large modes. Breakdown by dimension histograms for Duration, Count, Count unique, and Time gap metrics on the Project Home page are now supported in large mode projects.
Important. Big Data feature in Repository is no longer supported, please use Large Data Mode for projects.

Personal Data protection - delete suspended accounts
Starting from Timeline 5.3, all your personal data will be deleted when the time period for a subscription being suspended is over. Subscription becomes suspended when its validity expires, you will receive a series of email notifications to warn you in advance about subscription expiration. After being suspended for 30 days your data in project and repositories, account and subscription records will be erased.

Chart settings update
New options are added in the Charts tool. A limit of datapoints became configurable in the Data Threshold, you can now decide how many datapoints are shown and to hide or to aggregate others.

Query attributes
When creating a query, it is now possible to use two new operators: Equals any of and Contains any of. They allow to find timelines with attributes that correspond to the entered values according to the operators' logic. You can enter as many values as needed separating them with commas.

For vendors

License plan type
Timeline 5.3 offers its best with a personal approach - licenses are configured for each customer separately to meet the exact needs of each user. Plan type of a license is added to licenses tab in Admin-app, so this information will be also available in exported CSV from there. Now you can see your license's plan type even if you have no access to the Admin-app.

Email sender and the support email
Timeline 5.3 offers more flexibility for custom needs as configuring email sender and a link to support email. You can now set a branded electronic address for service mailings, e.g. a no-reply one, and add a different support email that is more convenient for you.

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