September 2024 Release Notes
Object-centric process mining (2024-09-13)
Extend Celonis perspectives
You can now extend the perspectives from the Celonis catalog with further objects, events, relationships, and event logs. In the perspectives editor, pick a Celonis perspective from one of our Celonis catalog processes that you've enabled, and choose Extend to create a custom extension for it.
Your extension can use custom or Celonis catalog objects, events, and relationships.
You can connect objects in your extension to the objects in the Celonis perspective by including or embedding them. Embedding (where you use a copy of the object type) is safer as there's no risk of creating a cycle in the Celonis perspective. You can also connect objects in your extension to other objects in the extension.
You can add custom event logs that use objects in your extension as the lead object type. You can also change the default event log for the perspective to be one of these.
We'll save your extension separately from the Celonis perspective, so you can view and use the original perspective with or without the extension, and you can create more than one custom extension for the same Celonis perspective.
If you've already created a custom perspective to use instead of a Celonis perspective, consider adding your customizations as an extension to the Celonis perspective instead. Celonis perspectives get updated with the latest changes and fixes when you update your Celonis catalog version, so they'll continue to meet the requirements for the Celonis apps and features that use them. Using objects and events for process mining explains how to use perspectives.
Studio (2024-09-12)
Tabs in Studio Views have distinct URLs
With the new Studio experience, you can create and edit tabs within your Views. Published Views with tabs now have distinct URLs per tab, enabling you to directly link to them where needed.
In this example, the button component has been configured in tab 1 that links directly to tab 2. The user is then directed to the next tab when clicking the button:
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For more information about creating tabs in your Studio Views, see: Views.
Object-centric process mining (2024-09-10)
Improved highlighting in the transformation editor
In the SQL query editor where you create transformations, we've changed the color coding to match the editor used in Data Integration. Operators are now displayed in blue, double-quoted strings and base texts are in black, single-quoted strings are in red, and comments are in green. Also, if you get a validation error, the editor now underlines the section of your SQL where the error is present. For the instructions to write custom transformations, see Creating custom transformations.
Object-centric process mining (2024-09-06)
Custom tagging for your object-centric processes
You can now create your own tags to organize custom processes that you're modeling for object-centric process mining. When you create a custom object type or event type, you'll get the new "Custom processes" category in the tagging section. Type in a tag and then click it to create it. When you save your work, your tags are added to the Objects and Events user interface, where they can be used for filtering, and can be assigned to other custom object types or event types. You can use custom tags up to 41 characters long (including spaces). Tags need to be unique in the "Custom processes" category - note that they aren't case-sensitive. For the custom modeling instructions, see Creating custom object types and custom event types.
Duplicate Invoice Checker (object-centric) version 1.0.0 (2024-09-06)
Enhanced app content and the new Studio experience
We've built the new version of the object-centric Duplicate Invoice Checker using the latest features in Studio, and you can easily customize the views with the new Studio experience's enhanced user interface. We've upgraded the app content too - here are the highlights:
Improved duplicate value tracking
Improved group validation flow
Customizable group prioritization
New filter-capable charts to quickly analyze group distribution across dimensions
The object-centric Duplicate Invoice Checker that's built on the new Studio experience is available in the Celonis Marketplace as a new package. You won’t be able to download it as an update to your existing object-centric Duplicate Invoice Checker package - you’ll need to download and install it as a new installation (Installing the object-centric Duplicate Invoice Checker has the steps). The new package has the same name as the old package, as it's a replacement for it, and we won’t be updating the old package built with the legacy Studio components.
For updates after version 1.0.0 of the package, we’ll clone the existing versions of your views, and add these to the package navigation along with the new versions of the views. (You can opt out of this by deselecting the “Duplicate copied assets before update” checkbox when you action the update.) Cloning the views means you won't lose the customizations you made to existing views, and you can copy them over to the new version of the views. Alternatively, you can discard any of the new views and revert to your existing versions.
Studio (2024-09-03)
Add hosted images to enhanced Studio views
You can add hosted images to your enhanced Studio Views, enabling you to add branding and visual enhancements to your content. You can also customize your image style by choosing the fit, background, alignment, labels, and alt text.
When adding images to your Views, the following apply:
Source: Images must be available on a public URL, meaning that they can be accessed without credentials or through specific environments.
Formats: Images must be either JPEG, PNG, SVG, or GIF format.
In this example, we've added the Celonis logo to our Process Cockpit app:
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For more information about adding images to your enhanced Studio Views, see: Images.
Unshipped Orders app (object-centric) version 1.2.0 (2024-09-02)
Manage deliveries that are past the delivery date
An object-centric version of our Unshipped Orders app is now available to download from the Celonis Marketplace. The app lets you identify and manage deliveries that are still in your distribution centers waiting to be shipped past the planned delivery date - a situation that causes unrealized revenue, blocked warehouse spaces, and declining customer satisfaction. For the object-centric version of the app, we’ve added a Value Framing view to help you calculate value opportunities.
The object-centric Unshipped Orders app is built using the latest features in Studio, and you can take full advantage of the new Studio experience, including easy drag-and-drop customization of the view components. We’ve added an integrated filter bar, and used Studio’s new Task Management interface to handle the app’s tasks and actions. You can also access and display the history of comments and other updates to tasks by adding the Activity history component to views. For the app documentation, see Unshipped Orders app - object-centric.
Celonis Platform Tasks (2024-09-02)
Celonis Platform Tasks allow human involvement in the automation process. Use Tasks when your automation requires a user's approval, manual input, or a simple decision before being executed. When a predefined event triggers the creation of a Task, a user can act upon it by taking one of the proposed actions. These Task Actions, as we call them, are then automatically executed. For more information, see Tasks.