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The following changes have been made in Usage Engine:
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Release date: 17 March 2021 | Ui expand |
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| Improved User Experience | The User Interface and the documentation has been improved to make it easier and more intuitive to use Usage Engine. | | Streams Using Email Attachment - Tutorial | The tutorial for creating and executing a stream that contains an Email Attachment function is updated with improved descriptive texts and screenshots. | | Script | The script function is updated with information about errors in scripts. The information given pinpoints the errors, making it easier to correct scripts. |
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| Data Aggregator | An improved aggregate function, Data Aggregator, is released as an improved beta function. This version has an updated UI and more features added. | | Salesforce Query | The Salesforce Query function is released as an improved beta function. This version has an updated UI, and includes preliminary documentation. Salesforce Query can be used to query for specific fields from a Salesforce Object. Objects and fields can be found in Salesforce website after user login. |
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Release date: 24 February 2021 | Ui expand |
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| Improved User Experience | The User Interface and the documentation has been improved to make it easier and more intuitive to use Usage Engine. |
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| Aggregator | An improved aggregate function is released as a beta function. This version adds more action flexibility compared to the old Aggregate function. | | Salesforce Query | The Salesforce Query function is released as beta. The Salesforce Query can be used to query for specific fields from Salesforce Object. Objects and fields can be found in Salesforce web site after user login. |
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Release date: 3 February 2021 | Ui expand |
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| Salesforce Bulk Upload | A new function to map and push usage data to Salesforce. Custom fields can be added as needed for specific use cases. | | Stream Interconnect | Stream Interconnect is a feature in Usage Data Platform that enables the user to forward output data from one stream to be processed by another stream. This feature helps with flexibility in reusing streams with a common logic and avoid having large streams with complex business logic. |
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| Stream Groups | Stream Groups can now be edited. You can rename a stream group and also rearrange the order of included streams. | | Aggregate | The documentation is updated with more information on how to use the function. |
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Release date: 21 December 2020 | Ui expand |
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| Stream Groups | The Stream Groups concept is a great feature that add a new dimension when it comes to controlled execution of stream. It is used to group streams that have dependencies between them, that is, one stream needs to be completed before the next stream in the group may start.
Stream Groups can be scheduled, edited, started, and ungrouped. |
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Script | The Script function is updated. The Time To Live (TTL) for store and sharedStore is extended to a maximum of 60 days. The default value for TTL is still 30 days. |
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| Stream Interconnect | The Stream Interconnect feature is released as a beta version. The Stream Interconnect feature adds a way to connect streams. It is possible to connect the output from one or more streams, and use that as input for another stream. | | Data Generator | The Data Generator function is released as beta. The Data Generator is a collector function that creates random data, based on user selectable input. This enables quick generation of sample data that can be used to try out other features in UDP. This is an alternative to to combinations of S3 collector, SFTP collector, and Counter-Script combinations. |
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For more information regarding Beta releases, please contact your commercial representative. |
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Release date: 2 December 2020 | Ui expand |
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Map | The Map function has been updated to improve the User Experience. It is now easier to manage the throughput of input fields, that is, how to include or exclude them. Improvements has also been made to the interaction when create and modification of fields, using formulas. | | Variable Insertion | This function is an updated version of the Variable Substitution. It can access payload variable and state.stream. It will dynamically and at runtime, modify and insert payload variables.
It supports the syntax: ${} for strings and @{} for objects. To access the field "foo" in a payload, you must now use ${payload.foo}.
If your current stream includes uses ${foo} it will be automatically migrated to ${payload.foo}. Thus, no manual editing required. | | Stream Notification | The Stream Notification, the function that sends emails to specified users when a stream for some reason fails, now covers more events. One new example is Out-of-Memory. |
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Stream Groups | Renamed since the previous beta release, and is now Stream Groups.
The Stream Groups function is used to link streams that have dependencies between them, that is, one stream needs to be completed before the next stream in the group may start. | | Salesforce Bulk Upload | This beta release enables enterprise customers to process usage event and push to Salesforce Billing. |
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For more information regarding Beta releases, please contact your commercial representative. |
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Release date: 30 September 2020 | Ui expand |
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| Notification Groups | Notification Groups is a great feature that keeps you informed of issues with your stream. You create email groups to notify the users about the issues and you can also select which issues to notify about. Currently, two issues are handled: Stream failure and No files found. Recurring issues on the same stream have a cool down period of 30 minutes before the next email is sent. |
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AWS S3 and SFTP | AWS S3 and SFTP collectors now support collection and parsing of files in the JSON format. AWS S3 and SFTP forwarders now support creation of the output file in the JSON format. |
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Release date: 9 September 2020 | Ui expand |
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Zuora Import Usage | A new function to import event usage data to Zuora Cloud billing systems using the Active Rating Import Usage API. | | Zuora Post Usage File | A new function to send event usage data to Zuora Cloud billing systems using the Post usage API. | | Shared Persistent State Storage | A new sharedStore API call to share storage access between different streams in the same solution. |
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| AWS S3 and SFTP | In AWS S3 and SFTP Forwarders, it is now possible to use Buffer as a new output file format along with Excel and CSV. When reading and/or processing files containing binary data (Buffer format), e.g. for performance or other reasons, we now support writing these files through the AWS S3 and STFP Forwarders. | | metadata and meta.lastCall | Added usage examples of meta and meta.lastCall, and their explicit limitations when it comes to Preview. | | Stream Editor | Added information about available keyboard shortcuts to enable multi-select on functions in the Stream Editor and also to copy functions from one stream to another. | | FAQ | Added Q&A for improvements to Email attachment and information about merging files. |
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Release date: 26 August 2020 | Ui expand |
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| AWS S3 and SFTP | AWS S3 and SFTP forwarders now support compression of output files. | | HTTP Client (Archieved) | When configuring HTTP post requests, users can now send plain text content-type in the header. The default content-type is JSON application. | | Deduplicate | The Deduplicate function has the following improvements: - Updated handling of duplicate records by providing a new output route titled Duplicates.
- The cache is now updated to store records for 30 days.
| | Solutions | You can now edit the color assigned to a solution on the Solutions page. | | Roles and Access Rights | User roles, access rights for each role and the expected restrictions are updated. For more information, refer to https://doc.digitalroute.com/display/DAZ/Account. |
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| XMap | A new function that provides formulas and enables the user to define values for new and updated fields. |
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Release date: 22nd October 2019 | Ui expand |
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| New sitemap | Usage Engine now has a new sidebar and updated toolbar available after you log into the Solutions view. |
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Release date: 1st October 2019 | Ui expand |
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| Email Attachment | Email forwarder is now available to be able to send emails using an external SMTP server. This function allows you to send emails (with/without attachments) to multiple recipients. | | SAP SB Query | SAP SB Query function available to fetch subscription and billing related data using the SAP account. This function enables the user to query subscriptions, bills and customers. | | HTTP Client (Archieved) | HTTP Client collector, processor and forwarder functions are available to provide with interactive ways of collecting, processing and forwarding the HTTP requests. This function communicates with a third-party HTTP server and determines how to handle outgoing requests . | | Unique names for Solutions, Streams and Functions | Duplicate naming for solutions, streams and functions is not allowed. You cannot assign the same name to more than one stream, solution or function. |
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| Route | The Route processor is updated to enable reordering router conditions. | AWS S3 SFTP | The AWS S3 and SFTP collector configurations are updated to support XML file format. |
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Release date: 13th August 2019 | Ui expand |
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| Data Correction | Data correction is a new feature provided to correct erroneous and unprocessed records, and to rectify erroneous data. | | SFTP | The SFTP forwarder is now available to enable forwarding data to an SFTP server. |
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Input fields in Usage Engine | Character restrictions are applied to the input fields in Usage Engine. You can only use defined characters while naming accounts, streams, solutions, and functions. | | AWS S3 and SFTP | Configurations of AWS S3 and SFTP forwarder are updated to support CSV and Excel file formats. |
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