What’s New in ThingWorx Utilities 6.5.0

Core Platform

Enhanced Resource Manager to support model tags as Capability identifiers:
- Speeds up filtering by model tags
- Passes model tags to the resource manager instead of data shapes for relationship capabilities such as Owning/Ownable
- Continues to use data shape for non-relationship capabilities
The Salesforce OAuth Authentication has been improved to handle session time outs and will not require restarting the application.
The following changes have been made to Resource Providers:
- The ThingWorx Resource Provider thing template, PTC.Resource.ThingworxResourceProviderTemplate, has been changed to PTC.Resource.ThingbasedResourceProviderTemplate.
- The ThingWorx Resource Provider class com.ptc.resource.ThingworxResourceProvider to com.ptc.resource.ThingBasedResourceProvider.
- The ThingWorx Resource Provider class com.ptc.resource.JavaBasedResourceProvider has been removed.
- A new data table-based Resource Provider Template, PTC.Resource.DataTableBasedResourceProviderTemplate is available to create a resource provider that exposes data table entries as resources.
ThingWorx Utilities has been updated to use Google Widgets 1.1.

User Management

Non-admin users are now able to execute the following use cases:
- Ability to assign assets to an organization so users can identify assets owned by a particular organization
- Ability to create new organizations and assign assets to them

Delivery and Deployment

Updates have been made to extension deliverables to support on-premise delivery. Documentation of manual steps required for installation and configuration has been provided as well. This affects the following extensions:
- Base ThingWorx Utilities Extension
- ThingWorx Remote Access and Control Client Extension
- ThingWorx Workflow Builder/ ThingWorx Workflow Manager Extension

ThingWorx Workflow Builder and ThingWorx Workflow Manager

Activity steps have been split into multiple tasks: Receive Task, Service Task, and User Task.
An expression builder has been added to the Exclusive Gateway step.
By default, business process definitions are created in an inactive state when copying using Save As.
User sessions have been improved so that performing a browser refresh or using the Utility Switcher does not close or restart the ThingWorx Workflow Builder session.
Added non-admin user support in both the ThingWorx Workflow Builder and the ThingWorx Workflow Manager
- Non-admin users cannot create, update, or delete Business Process Definitions in the ThingWorx Workflow Builder.
- Non-admin users cannot cancel an active business process in the ThingWorx Workflow Manager.
Enhanced run time exception/error reporting has been added to the ThingWorx Workflow Manager.
Export and import support for business process definitions has been added.

ThingWorx Remote Access and Control and ThingWorx Software Content Management Utilities

Utilities have been refactored for multiple extensions:
- Created a separate extension for the ThingWorx Remote Access and Control utility that is independent of the ThingWorx Software Content Management extension.
- Created a separate extension for the ThingWorx Software Content Management utility that is independent of the ThingWorx Remote Access and Control extension.
- Created a separate, independent extension for the File Transfer utility.
- Created a separate, independent extension for the Asset Search utility.
- Created a separate, independent extension for the Asset Dashboard utility.
Added support for purging deployments by date range or assets.
Merged the existing ThingWorx Utilities Accelerator Installation and User Guide into the ThingWorx Utilities Help Center.