This page gives an overview of the various platform releases and the corresponding features that were updated/enhanced in the 7.3.x version of the platform.
Ver 7.3 July 4th 2020.
Major Release
| Feature | Enhancement |
|---|---|
| Bot Builder | |
| UI Forms | Introduced UI Forms allowing users to provide inputs to a Bot using visual input forms. Learn More. |
| Data Tables | Introduced Data Tables allowing for storing, retrieving, updating, and deleting custom data records for any business needs. Learn more. |
| Bot Versioning | Introduced Bot Versioning supporting auto-created versions at the time of Publish and developer created custom versions of the Bot at various stages of the development process. Learn more. |
| Universal Bot | Universal Bot is enhanced to intelligently route user utterance only to the relevant linked bots using training data, contextual information, and preferences; the ability to define fallback bots, improved publish flow, and much more. Learn More. |
| Natural Language | |
| Ability to enable and customize Dependency Parser for FM and R&R Engines (only for German and French languages); enhanced experience for the user to switch to another intent while the bot is waiting for input via a link (know more); Ability to enable or disable auto-correction of String entities irrespective of Extraction Behavior (know more). | |
| Knowledge Graph | New option for lemmatization using Parts of Speech (know more); simplified CSV format for Knowledge Graph import/export with full support for all the Knowledge Graph features (know more); rejection of training nodes with a large number of questions (100 questions) by Training and Knowledge Graph Analysis; search in Answer support extended for other languages (know more). |
| Bot Analytics | |
| Bot Metrics have been enhanced to allow filtering based on time in addition to date (know more); the scope of apps has changed from ‘user-level’ to ‘bot level’ (know more). | |
| Batch Testing |
The batch Test suites and reports enhanced to support defining the traits; the inclusion of the thresholds and configurations details in the test results summary; ability to run the test suite against the published mode or the in-development mode of the Bot. Learn more. |
| Language Support | |
| The ability to disable a supported language at the bot level (know more); ability to customize messages related to language selection and disambiguation using a koreUtil.getCurrentOptions function (know more); enhancements to Korean language intent and entity detection. | |
| Channel Enablement | |
| New channels: Unblu Channel (learn more) & WeChat Channel (learn more); Cisco Spark Channel has been updated in line with its rebranding as Cisco Webex Teams (learn more). | |
| Enterprise Features | |
| IP whitelisting (learn more); the import of Organizational Units, the configuration of the Inclusion Rules, and Custom User Profile Fields in Active Directory Sync (learn more). | |
| Security & Performance | NodeJS Modules have been upgraded; Lodash has been upgraded to 4.17.15; Support extended for TLS 1.2 and disabled for TLS 1.1 & 1.0 |