Features​

• Trigger a flow from an external system with the reworked Webhook trigger: it is registered from the Portal in one handshake, Business Central sets up the connection for you, and only the HTTP methods you allow get through – available on Business Central online (SaaS) only (CHN-439)
• Build filters right on the step configuration as a line of clickable blocks – each side of a comparison takes SmartFields, SmartFormulas and SmartDates, the brackets are yours to set, and the Test panel and the "Edit as text" view are one click away (CHN-452)
• Pick SmartFields from a tree that shows your step outputs and every referenced table at once, is fully keyboard-operable, and loads deeper levels as you expand them (CHN-454)
• Drag a SmartField straight out of the new panel beside the step configuration onto the field that needs it – it lands where your pointer is (CHN-455)
• Reach the SmartField panel in every full-page SmartField surface – the SmartText and SmartCode editors and the SmartFormula, SmartDate and SmartFilter builders (CHN-456)
• Write the body of an HTTP Request or Respond to Webhook step in a new code editor that keeps your JSON or XML valid and copy-pasteable while still colour-coding SmartFields, SmartFormulas and SmartDates (CHN-449)
• Choose which key a SmartField reference reads on and in which direction, so access stays fast when the reference doesn't filter on primary-key fields – and "Descending" hands you the newest of the matching records, in a ForEach loop too (CHN-448)
• Reorder rows in any step-configuration grid by dragging their handle or using the arrow keys (CHN-445)

Bugfixes​

• The "Set parameters..." button on the Create PDF Document and Run Codeunit steps now opens the report request page instead of doing nothing (CHN-457)
• Renaming a Reference SmartField keeps its filters, key and sort order, and a name already taken on the same table is refused instead of silently merging the two definitions (CHN-451)
• The SmartFormula and SmartDate builders no longer switch to a dark theme when your operating system is set to dark mode (CHN-450)
• Inserting a SmartField, SmartFormula or SmartControl no longer writes a stray space into the value (CHN-446)
• Typing in a step-configuration grid cell no longer loses focus after every keystroke (CHN-441)
• Pasting into a SmartField value now inserts plain text, without dragging the source's formatting along (CHN-440)
• Deleting a flow, or leaving the large flow editor, no longer asks you about unpublished changes that aren't there (CHN-437)
• Connecting to the Gallery no longer fails when the Portal issues a fresh API key (CHN-436)
• The flow preview in the Flow Workspace now uses the same dot grid as the flow editor

Features​

• Run a flow by hand straight from the flow card or the Flow Workspace preview – the "Run this flow" button now appears for both manual and scheduled flows and hides itself whenever a flow can't be started manually (CHN-430)

Bugfixes​

• Flows run without blocking on background sessions, so execution is faster and steps no longer stall waiting for their status to be written back (CHN-432)
• Flows no longer abort with a "step not settled" error when Business Central throttles background sessions under load (CHN-429)
• SmartFormula aggregations (sum, average, min, max, count) over an empty or missing collection now resolve to 0 instead of being left as raw text in the output (CHN-433)
• Flow-canvas connections that loop back to an earlier block are now drawn as clean right-angled lines instead of a diagonal curve running under the steps

Features​

• Author every step and trigger on a refreshed configuration experience, with a new SmartText editor and SmartFormula builder for composing values inline (CHN-417)
• Insert SmartDates into your fields to calculate dates and times on the fly – relative offsets, the start or end of a period, and more – right where you configure a step (CHN-421)
• Aggregate a list inside a SmartFormula with new sum, average, min, max, and count functions (CHN-420)
• Test an HTTP Request step straight from its configuration: fill in a value for each token, send the request with your chosen credential, and inspect the response before wiring it into a flow (CHN-392)
• Preview parser selectors against a sample: paste XML, JSON, or text into the Parser step and see exactly what each selector extracts before running your flow (CHN-391)
• Jump straight to your credentials from the Flow Workspace with a new Credentials shortcut (CHN-424)
• Subscribe to release-notes updates right from the blog with a new newsletter sign-up form (CHN-418)

Bugfixes​

• Re-publish an already-active flow even at full license capacity, without having to deactivate another flow first (CHN-426)
• Flows no longer fail intermittently with a missing execution-step error caused by a scheduler timing race (CHN-415)
• Rapid clicks in the flow editor no longer stack up duplicate dialogs (CHN-425)
• The HTTP Headers and Categories setup pages no longer clutter Tell Me search results; both stay reachable from where they're used (CHN-423)

Features​

• The interactive record trigger can now fire when a record is created as well as when it's modified, with independent per-flow toggles for insert and modify (CHN-413)

Bugfixes​

• Auto-suggested output names for trigger fields now handle German field captions correctly – umlauts are transliterated (Größe → Groesse) and long names are truncated consistently, so the SmartField picker and the running flow always reference the same key (CHN-414)

Features​

• Organize your flows in the new Flow Workspace: a per-company folder tree with drag-to-file, a searchable list with status and last-run drill-down, and a read-only flow preview – with resizable panes that remember your layout (CHN-406)
• Browse and manage templates in a new full-page Template Gallery: card view with search and favorites, mark your own templates Public or Private to publish them to your organization, filter to just your own – and using a template now counts toward its popularity (CHN-404)
• The interactive "When a document is modified" trigger is now "When a record is modified" and also watches Customers, Vendors, Items, Contacts, and subscription contracts (CHN-408)
• New "Add Item Tracking" action assigns a serial, lot, or package number to a sales or purchase line, drop-shipment lines included (CHN-409)
• Find Records can now sort by a key you pick, with an Ascending/Descending toggle (CHN-403)
• Build filters visually with the new SmartFilter builder, available via assist-edit on the Decision, While-loop, and Find Records filter fields (CHN-401)
• Author SmartFields more easily: the picker splits into "Select a field" and "Create a reference" with inline editing, and the Set page auto-fills captions and lets you edit the field and caption in place (CHN-397)
• Renaming a SmartField now rewrites every {{placeholder}} that uses it across the draft flow, nested references included (CHN-398)
• Copy a run of steps in one go: Shift-click to select a contiguous block and paste it as a unit, with internal SmartField references re-wired to the new steps automatically (CHN-399)
• Trigger and action config pages now auto-generate a clean description and slug from your settings, keep them in sync until you edit them, and offer a Reset (CHN-405)
• Activation now confirms with a quiet notification instead of opening the Get-started page (CHN-400)
• Read and write record dimensions with two new steps: Set Dimension Values applies the dimensions you list – with legal-value validation and Global/Shortcut dimension sync – and Get Dimensions exposes each dimension's value and name as outputs for later steps (CHN-411)

Features​

• Activate AutoFlow straight from the portal with a guided pairing wizard for cloud, gallery, and on-prem environments (CHN-389)
• Each Run SubFlow call now runs as its own child execution with its own steps, status, and logs – drill into it from the parent's execution log (CHN-352)

Bugfixes​

• Interactive Document Modified, Released, and Posted flows no longer fail with a "transaction is stopped" error when they run while the document is being saved (CHN-395)
• German sessions show translated AutoFlow Core captions again instead of falling back to English (CHN-380)

Features​

• Run a flow the instant a document or line is changed, so you can validate the edit, rewrite fields, or reject the change outright (CHN-379)
• Run a flow when a sales or purchase document is released, with the option to block the release and show your own message (CHN-382)
• Run a flow the moment a sales or purchase document is posted – inspect or adjust the document header first, or stop the posting entirely (CHN-384)
• Send a notification to the user from inside an interactive document flow, using a dedicated non-blocking step with a SmartField-aware message (CHN-388)
• Draw the next number from a Business Central number series inside a flow and reuse it in later steps (CHN-386)
• New built-in {{workdate}} SmartField that resolves to the work date of the session that started the flow and stays fixed for the whole run (CHN-387)
• Flow and Execution lists now show the flow status, the execution date, and who started each run, with one-click links to the latest execution (CHN-380)

Bugfixes​

• The template gallery now loads reliably and recognizes your organization's own templates, restoring Publish, Unpublish, and Delete (CHN-393)
• The template gallery now refreshes when opened, so newly published templates appear right away (CHN-390)
• Deleting a flow now cancels any of its in-flight executions instead of leaving them stranded (CHN-385)
• Deleting a published flow now frees its active-flow license slot (CHN-383)
• Deleting a flow now cleans up its trigger registrations and scheduled job queue entries (CHN-335)
• Restored backwards compatibility for extensions that build on AutoFlow, fixing an upgrade-breaking change introduced in 27.0.17 (CHN-368)
• Paid cloud tenants now receive their real flow entitlement from the portal instead of being capped at the free-tier limit (CHN-373)

Features​

• Pick a flow step from a visual grid of clickable tiles – each showing the step's icon and name – instead of a plain list (CHN-318)
• Reworked activation and licensing: cloud activation runs through the customer portal, on-premises activates offline from a signed license file, and your active flows are now counted directly in your tenant (CHN-362)

Bugfixes​

• The report file-name trigger now surfaces every record that matches your report filter, so a For Each can process the whole set instead of only the first match (CHN-363)
• SmartFormula now evaluates amounts entered in your regional number format (for example 12.834,27) instead of stopping the flow with a decimal error (CHN-367)
• Flows that combine a Case step with nested Decision branches run again instead of failing with "AutoFlow execution step does not exist" (CHN-364)
• SmartFormula fields that reference a sibling step – as needed by the Modify, Delete, and Rename Record actions – now resolve correctly instead of being left as literal text (CHN-354)

Features​

• Record-link (RecordId) fields now work with reference SmartFields: filter on them in Find Records with {{rec}} or {{results}}, and write them in Insert and Modify Record – flows can store and match records by the references earlier steps produced (CHN-346)

Bugfixes​

• Flows triggered by an insert into a table with auto-assigned numbers (AutoIncrement) now receive a record reference that resolves – previously the referenced record could not be found by the time the flow ran (CHN-347)
• A bare placeholder like {{results}} for a multi-value Parser output now returns the first element instead of staying unresolved (CHN-348)

Features​

• The new trigger "When a report file name is generated" lets a flow rename the files Business Central creates for reports – configure any number of reports in one published flow, and the new "Set report file name" step returns your custom name; flows that end without it keep the default name (CHN-294)
• The "When a PDF is printed" trigger now covers any number of reports in a single published flow, configured as a simple list – and it no longer requires a paid plan; existing PDF-print flows need to be reconfigured once with report lines (CHN-337)
• The new While Loop step repeats its steps for as long as a condition holds – check the condition before or after each pass, with a configurable maximum-iterations guard so a flow can never loop forever (CHN-290)
• Every value line of the Insert, Modify and Rename Record steps accepts an explicit input format – choose locale-independent XML notation or a fixed date pattern such as dd.MM.yyyy, so dates, times and numbers are interpreted the same no matter which language the flow runs under (CHN-341)
• The Add to Collection dialog now shows a live status line that tells you while typing whether the collection and value are valid, and picking a table via the lookup in Create Collection no longer raises a validation error (CHN-291)
• Duplicate a flow with one click: the new Duplicate action on the flow list and flow card creates an independent, unpublished copy of the flow (CHN-312)
• New xmlEscape format tokens place flow values safely into XML and SOAP payloads – reserved characters are escaped automatically, with UTF-8 and UTF-16 variants for binary content (CHN-303)

Bugfixes​

• After a Business Central encryption key rotation, credentials whose stored secret can no longer be read now ask you to re-enter the secret instead of failing every run with an error – and such credentials can be deleted or renamed again (CHN-338)
• A single placeholder that resolves only later (such as {{credential.password}}, filled in when the request is sent) no longer stops all other placeholders in the same step from resolving – HTTP steps using credential tokens work again (CHN-339)
• Placeholders in the field filters of the Find Records step now resolve to their values instead of filtering on the literal {{...}} text (CHN-299)
• References to a single collection element such as {{results[0]}} now resolve, so steps that use them can be saved and published again (CHN-296)
• Comparisons like {{x}} != '' now evaluate correctly when the value is empty – "is not empty" no longer wrongly reports true (CHN-305)
• The configuration of a Run SubFlow step calling a SubFlow without input parameters is now saved instead of silently discarded (CHN-310)
• The configuration of a SubFlow Output step with no output values is now saved instead of silently discarded (CHN-313)
• Restarting a run that failed inside a SubFlow now re-runs the SubFlow cleanly instead of crashing with an enum error (CHN-333)
• Exporting a flow now includes its code, description and icon URL, and "Create from file" restores all three on import (CHN-334)
• Multi-line content in Execution Log entries – such as HTTP response bodies – is now shown with real line breaks instead of as one long line with \n characters (CHN-319)
• Line breaks entered with a plain Enter in canvas notes are preserved when saving instead of being flattened into a single line (CHN-314)
• The new While Loop step now also runs on Business Central version 24 (CHN-342)
• XPath parser lines get a Raw XML option that returns the matched element as XML instead of plain text – feed repeating XML structures into a For Each loop and parse each element with a nested parser (CHN-344)

Features​

• The Case step now has a built-in Otherwise branch that runs whenever no other branch matches – including empty values – so a flow always has a fallback path; the step is also renamed to "Fallunterscheidung" in the German UI (CHN-288)
• New Create Element and Set Element steps let you hold a single value or reference and update it as the flow runs, for lightweight in-flow state tracking (CHN-236)
• The Create PDF Document step now lets you pick which report layout to render with; leave it empty to keep the report's default (CHN-285)
• HTTP Request steps can now place a credential's username and password directly into the request body using {{credential.username}} and {{credential.password}} tokens, so you can authenticate SOAP and other body-based services without exposing secrets in the flow

Bugfixes​

• Adding more than one SubFlow parameter or output in a single session no longer fails with a duplicate-line error (CHN-292)
• When a step inside a SubFlow fails, the calling step on the parent flow now correctly shows as failed, and the SubFlow's log entries appear neatly under it instead of going missing (CHN-293)
• References like {{find-records_results.no}} now resolve to the field value in text such as filenames, instead of being left as literal placeholder text (CHN-289)
• SmartFormulas with a missing semicolon, or a format that only sets precision, now render the value instead of erroring or coming back blank (CHN-286)

Features​

• The new SmartControls add conditions and loops to step configs – wrap text in {#if {{flag}} #}…{#endif#} or iterate a list with {#for {{items}} #}…{#endfor#} (CHN-279, CHN-283)

Bugfixes​

• External applications can now trigger AutoFlow webhooks – assign them the new AutoFlow Integration (S2S) permission set (CHN-284)
• Enabling test mode on an email step now reveals the recipients field immediately – no need to reopen the step (CHN-278)
• The activation wizard's authorize URL is now a copy-paste fallback only; the Sign in button is the single path that starts the sign-in flow
• Onboarding no longer reports a misleading "Sign-in failed: HTTP 200" after a successful registration (CHN-276)

Features​

• AutoFlow now installs on Business Central v24 OnPrem, alongside BC26 and BC27 – one codebase, four supported runtimes

Bugfixes​

• HTTP Request steps no longer abort with a "string too long" error when a server returns a response header name longer than 50 characters (CHN-262)
• The inline format option 9 on a flat date value now renders the XML/ISO date (e.g. 20260529D) instead of a raw number (CHN-263)

Features​

• Intercept any PDF Business Central is about to print and replace it with a modified version from a flow – watermark drafts, drop a customer's letterhead on every invoice, archive every quote to SharePoint. Use the new When a PDF is printed trigger; end the flow with a Return PDF step to deliver your version. Paid-tier feature (CHN-234)
• The PDF Print step's report parameters now accept SmartField placeholders – print the same report layout with different filters, accounts, or date ranges depending on the flow's runtime data (CHN-258)
• Reach into your own AL with the new Run Codeunit / Report step – invoke any codeunit or processing-only report by ID, optionally passing a flow-resolved record. Report parameters accept SmartField placeholders too. A built-in block-list protects system-critical codeunits from accidental flow calls (CHN-199)
• New Case step picks one of several branches based on a SmartField expression – like switch/case, without the stack of nested decisions (CHN-230)
• Exporting a Main/Sub flow pair as a template now preserves the SubFlow's stable Code (used by Run-SubFlow callers) and its custom icon – templates work straight after import in a fresh environment (CHN-249)

Bugfixes​

• The PDF Print step accepts filter-only reports (Trial Balance, G/L Register, …) – the Record Selector is now optional for reports without a DataItem table (CHN-250)
• Users without AutoFlow permissions no longer see an AutoFlow menu in their role center, and standard BC role centers stop showing the menu by default – opt-in via Personalize (CHN-256)
• Licensing failures surface as readable errors instead of a silent blank package list; the activation wizard verifies the API key actually persisted before declaring success, and a View API Key action helps support diagnose stuck activations (CHN-254)
• When a flow fails mid-execution on a synchronous trigger (Webhook, the new PDF Print trigger), the per-step log and status now tell you which step failed – previously the diagnostic trail was rolled back along with the runner state (CHN-252)

Features​

• Insert/Modify-Record now writes binary SmartFields (or a literal base64 string) directly into Blob/Media fields – a bare {{pdfBody}} streams bytes 1:1, base64 decodes in place. Long field values are no longer silently truncated at 2048 characters on save. (CHN-223)

Bugfixes​

• ForEach cleanly skips the loop edge when the selector resolves to an empty array – previously the loop ran once with an unresolvable currentItem. (CHN-224)
• Empty HTTP bodies no longer trip an INDEXING runtime error during SmartField placeholder detection. (CHN-220)
• SmartField values containing embedded JSON (e.g. a currentItem from a JsonToken loop) are spliced into the next step's configuration correctly – fixes the JsonObject.ReadFrom abort with "Die Daten stellen kein gültiges JSON-Token dar." (CHN-222)

Features​

• HTTP-Request step sends raw bytes when the body is a single binary SmartField (BLOB/Media/MediaSet/MediaReference). New ;base64, ;utf8, ;utf16 format tokens render binary fields as text. (CHN-217)
• Step config preserves {{placeholder}} selectors meant for References and arrays while substituting scalar values; For Each gains typed currentItem / items outputs for the design-time picker. (CHN-167)

Bugfixes​

• AutoFlow Document table caption restored to "Dokument" (was "Hilfe"); list page renamed to "AutoFlow Documents" / "AutoFlow Dokumente" for suite consistency. (CHN-216)
• Execution viewer now highlights the step currently running. (CHN-215)
• Canvas notes manually resized past 400 px stay at the dragged width (auto-sized notes still wrap at 400 px). (CHN-207)

Features​

• Decision step config shows an inline cheat sheet for the supported condition operators. (CHN-189)
• New Revert changes action on a Draft flow discards the draft and returns to the last published version. (CHN-188)
• SmartField placeholders accept an inline format suffix – {{today;9}} formats the value on the fly. (CHN-202)
• Four default SmartFields – today, currentDateTime, currentUser, currentCompany – available everywhere without authoring a Set first. (CHN-201)
• Canvas notes: post-it style annotations on the flow editor. Double-click the canvas to add; six pastel colors; follow the draft/publish lifecycle. (CHN-200)
• Licensing UI Active Flows caption reads "Active Flows (all environments and tenants)" so the cross-tenant scope is unambiguous. (CHN-183)
• Start manually on a Draft flow prompts to publish first – publish & start, start the published version, or cancel. (CHN-187)
• Execution card surfaces the last log message; clicking it drills into the chronological log list. (CHN-186)
• New copy button on every action and group block – attach a duplicate ghost to the cursor and drop it at any insert point. (CHN-193)
• Published flows are read-only by default; an explicit Edit flow action transitions to draft. (CHN-195)
• Export flow to file prompts for the version when a flow has both a draft and a published version. (CHN-184)

Bugfixes​

• Removed a dead install-trigger code path that broke fresh installs on tenants with existing AutoFlow data. (CHN-209)
• Manual Run this flow on a Draft flow prompts to publish first instead of running the stale draft silently. (CHN-206)
• ForEach steps with placeholder selectors ({{users}}) no longer raise SelectorWrapperRequiredErr. (CHN-205)
• The Log step writes at Info level, so log entries are visible by default in the execution log. (CHN-203)
• Filled in 18 missing German translations across HTTP-Request, Sleep, Decision, ForEach, and credential UI. (CHN-185)
• SmartField slug lookup returns the documented -1 sentinel on miss instead of throwing. (CHN-211)
• SmartField Set authoring: AssistEdit picks persist, the card header refreshes after switching tables, and new Sets appear in the list without close+reopen. (CHN-204)
• Leaving a Draft flow with unpublished changes shows a confirmation prompt (toggle in AutoFlow Setup). (CHN-197)
• Newly added SmartFields no longer disappear after closing the Edit SmartFields modal a second time. (CHN-198)
• The Lookup Field column in the SmartField reference editor is disabled when Lookup Type is Const or Filter. (CHN-192)
• SmartField table lookup columns show the target table in the header ("Field from Customer" instead of plain "Field"). (CHN-191)
• SmartField Type column on the authoring surface is captioned Source with a "Field: …" row label, disambiguating it from the runtime Value caption. (CHN-190)

Core​

Features​

• Initial implementation

Essentials​

Features​

• Initial implementation