New Features in 1.21.0 include:

New Features in 1.20.4 include:

Added sample input support for database actions.Added view that shows the current status of all connector deployments for a specific connector. This shows the current version that has been deployed to every subscriber and when the connector update last propagated to that instance. Click "View Connector Deployment Statuses" on the project settings to access this view.

Bug Fixes in 1.20.4 include:

Fixed issue where process data inspector was performing operations for actions that were marked as SKIP.Removed empty link from the top level flow view for RUN_ACTION data flows. RUN_ACTION flows do not have an endpoint URL.Data flows with RUN_ACTION as the top action now correctly dsplay run statistics.Fixed an issue that made it impossible to properly reparent a cloned action.

Other changes in 1.20.4 include:

New Features in 1.20.3 include:

All Actions now track the history of modifications and which user made the changes. Click "Edit History" on the action's links sub tab to access this report for any specific action. The yellow warning icon in the data flow is now clickable. This directs the user to the warnings report for the action.

Bug Fixes in 1.20.3 include:

Fixed issue where it was possible to accidentally reparent an action during the create operation.Fixed issue where it was possible for the process data inspector to get stuck recursively loading connector data.Corrected the behavior of the ctrl clicks in the interface.

Other changes in 1.20.3 include:

Added documentation about memory management strategies to the Instalink website.

Bug Fixes in 1.20.2 include:

Fixed issue that could cause admin panel crash when a process doesn't have a project id set.Fixed issue where the connector data wasn't being processed correctly in the process data inspector.

Other changes in 1.20.2 include:

Disabled auto-scrolling to the process data inspector of recently opened actions.

Bug Fixes in 1.20.1 include:

Fixed issue where the table view couldn't be scrolled horizontally when loaded inside of a the main window while inline tabs are visible.

We sought to accomplish the following with the major 1.20.0 release:

Improve the ability of developers to create data flows.Remove the guesswork about how data flows will behave.Give developers real-time feedback about their processes as they are working on them.Make documentation readily available and easily accessible.

New Features in 1.20.0 include:

Rebuilt project management interface

The Problem with Error Log Notifications

While there are several actions that can be used in Instalink to directly alert an administrator to an issue with a data flow, such as "Respond with Error", "Send to URL", or "Send Message", there are situations where receiving a direct notification on service errors may not be ideal. For example, imagine a data flow where the administrator receives an email every time a call fails to send to an external API. This may initially seem to be an intuitive way to set up error notifications. However, the problem quickly becomes evident when the external API goes down and returns an error for each request. Indeed, a user may receive thousands of emails during a service outage if a data flow is set up to send an email to an administrator on every occurrence of a logged error.

Sending a notification on the error log should be used only in situations where the error is expected to be encountered infrequently.

New Features in 1.13.0 include:

Improved user interface for forms making it obvious whether or not a form submission was successful or not.Error response emails can now be delivered to the subscribers of a topic rather than a single email address.A new process flow action for delivering email and SMS messages to the subscribers of a topic.Items within a queue may be cancelled so that they will not be processed.An option was added to the "FTPS" action to skip validation of the server's SSL certificate.An options was added to "Listen" actions to automatically generate the necessary CORS headers and endpoints for accessing Instalink.io URLs in the browser.

Bug Fixes in 1.13.0 include:

The "prevent duplicates" feature for process queue items has been fixed.A problem where entering certain invalid URL strings into the "Send To URL" and "FTPS" actions could cause a processor to crash has been fixed.

Other changes in 1.13.0 include:

Instalink offers an extensive library of custom data transformation functions that can be used to change input data from one format to another. There is thorough documentation of these transforms on Instalink.io. Be sure to check out the transform documentation if you have any questions about the specifics of the behavior of the transforms.

These transforms can also be used within custom transform scripts to create custom behavior. This post is intended to be a quick overview of how scripts work in Instalink and how to create custom behaviors for your transformations.

It is important to note that the scripting syntax isn't actually a full-fledged programming language. So it's not analogous to ECMA design patterns like javascript or C. It is intended to be more similar to Excel spreadsheet functions. So Instalink scripting follows a similar design pattern to how someone would write transforms on table data in a spreadsheet as that was initially our target audience for this software.

Instalink 1.12.0 includes advanced static logs, progress tracking, and real-time account level monitoring of specific requests and their statuses. Static inbound call logs can still be viewed by going to the logs page. The new real-time logs feature can be accessed in two ways. You may click on the "Real-Time Logs" link from the account menu to view all processes currently running on an account. You may also go to any CRON or LISTEN action and click on "Real-Time Logs" to view live logs only for that specific action.

The following statistics have been added to Static Inbound Logs:

success countinfo counterror countitem countprogress percentagetime elapsed.

Live Logs include the following statistics: