What’s New in SAS Workflow Studio 1.3

For managing access to content, SAS Workflow Studio now supports SAS Web Intrastructure Platform privileges and roles and web-layer permissions. Run-time access control is no longer dependent on SAS metadata and has been updated to support more granular privileges. In addition, SAS Workflow Studio now supports configurable authorization for workflow template management. See Workflow Roles and Privileges, and Template Permissions and Configuring Participants for more information.

A new template comparison dialog box that displays the workflow tree hierarchy for two versions of a template side-by-side has been added. This new dialog box enables you to easily evaluate the differences between the two versions of the template. See Comparing Workflow Template Versions.

The Invoke Web Service policy now has two new properties, Error Code and Error Message, to support business logic based on potential error conditions. Also, a new policy action, Invoke REST Web Service, has been added to support REST web services. See Invoke Web Service and for more information.Invoke REST Web Service

A new policy action, Submit A JES Job, has been added. This action enables you to execute code that has been registered with the SAS Job Execution Service and resides on the server. See Submit a JES Job.

Timer events in SAS Workflow Studio now support Date data objects, which allows the dynamic use of datetime values at run time. Date data objects can be used with or without relative time offset expressions. Also, with Date data objects, you can now enter negative relative offsets, which triggers actions prior to the date specified by the data object. See Using Timers.

Support for a new TODAY function has been added to decision gateway expressions. This function retrieves the current datetime system value, which enables you to specify a specific date offset from the current date. See Function Support in Decision Expressions.