Introducing Our New Product Features: An Overview

At Patchworks, we constantly strive to innovate, ensuring that our users get the best experience and access to the newest tools and functionalities. We’re excited to introduce a slew of updates that promise to elevate your productivity and streamline your workflows. Here’s a comprehensive rundown of what’s new!

1. Revamped Process Flow Home/Overview Page:

Get insights at a glance with the new overview page - complete with statistics for active process flows, run logs, tracked transactions chart, and more. Tailored for both our process flow-only and hybrid service customers, this feature promises a holistic view of your operations.

2. Track with Precision - New Tracked Fields Feature:

Field tags just got smarter. Now you can track fields that uniquely identify a record, such as customer ids, order ids, and more. And don’t worry about getting started; we’re rolling out updates to our prebuilt connectors and offering guidance every step of the way. Plus, our new process flow overview page beautifully integrates the latest tracked fields for easy access.

3. Stay Notified with Process Flow Run Failure Alerts:

Never miss a beat. Set up email alerts for process flow failures. Simply define a notification group, select the recipients, and stay informed.

4. Unleashing the Power of Advanced Transform Functions:

Transformations are at the heart of data integration and manipulation. With this release, we’ve enriched our toolset to offer you a plethora of advanced options:

• Math Transform: Need to perform mathematical operations across multiple source fields? Now, you can aggregate, calculate, and push results seamlessly to target fields.

• Data Type Casting: Dive into the world of flexible data with our range of casting functions:
• Cast Boolean to String: Transition seamlessly from boolean data types to string
• Cast Number to String: Convert numbers into text without breaking a sweat
• Cast String to Number: Transform text fields into numeric values with precision
• Cast Float to String: Got floating-point numbers? Convert them effortlessly into strings

• Null value transform: In specific scenarios, the need arises to nullify data. With our 'Null value' transformation, change any source value to null, giving you more control over your data quality and consistency.

These transformative features aim to enhance your data manipulation capabilities, ensuring that no matter the shape or form of your data, you're equipped to handle it with finesse. With these functions in your arsenal, the sky's the limit for your data integration projects!

5. Flexible Cache Retention Options:

Have control over your cached data’s longevity. Choose retention periods up to 7 days, catering to both short-term and week-long needs.

6. Enhanced Real-time Logs:

Real-time logging is now richer than ever. When manually running a process flow, view progress for every step across tabs like logs, payloads, requests, and responses – with the added ability to view API request/response body content.

7. More In-depth Retrospective Run Logs:

Get detailed insights with the enhanced run logs. Whether you're interested in the past 7 days or need payloads for inbound API requests and webhooks, we’ve got you covered.

8. Custom Scripting Reimagined:

Our custom scripts page has undergone a massive transformation. Not only is it more user-friendly, but you can now also test with variables and payloads.

9. Improved Connector Instance Creation:

We believe feedback is crucial. So, in the unlikely event of a connector instance creation failure, we provide you with detailed insights on the authentication request and response.

10. Marketplace at Your Fingertips:

Accessing the marketplace is now easier than ever! Dive into the myriad of solutions directly from the dashboard navigation menu.

It’s our mission is to provide tools that empower, inform, and simplify. We hope these new features amplify your experience and drive your success. As always, we're eager to hear your feedback and can't wait to see what you achieve with these enhancements. 

For full details on all of our product updates, please visit our documentation pages.