• Newly introduced short-lived access tokens, refresh tokens.

• Adding permission scopes for authentication while adding a new connection. For more information refer: Now Available: Scoped apps and enhanced permissions

• New filters: Filename Only, File Status, Order By , File Extensions, File Categories, for Search File and Folder Metadata.

• ThingWorx Flow is compliant with ThingWorx Active-Active cluster environment. Most of the ThingWorx Flow components can be scaled; however, ThingWorx Flow High Availability is not supported. For more information, see ThingWorx Flow in ThingWorx HA.

• ThingWorx Flow Dockerfiles and supporting Composer files are available to build ThingWorx Flow on Docker environment. You can deploy ThingWorx Flow along with ThingWorx Docker images for both single ThingWorx mode and HA cluster ThingWorx mode.

• ThingWorx Flow automated upgrade installer is available to upgrade from a fresh installation of ThingWorx Flow 8.5.x and later to 9.0.

• Compared to previous releases that supported predefined fixed accounts only, you can now use a user’s identity in ThingWorx Flow connectors. This ability is essential for secure production use for many applications and enables fetching different content for different users. Two-Way SSL and OAuth (Session User) connection types were introduced to enable this capability. For more information, see Connector types .

• You can switch a connection type for the selected connector, which helps in easy maintenance of workflows. The Switch option is available only if the third-party service supports more than one connector type.

• You can map connection variables in a workflow, which allows using the same action or workflow for different environments of third-party services. For more information, see Map connector.

• ThingWorx media entities can use ThingWorx Flow connectors for authorization. For more information, see ThingWorx Flow configuration in media entities .

• Multiple action forms have been updated where you can choose Form to provide inputs for individual input fields listed in the form, or choose Assign JSON to specify a single JSON with all required inputs. Using Assign JSON shortens the forms, and also removes the limit on the length of the items of arrays.

• The following services have been added to the WorkflowSubsystem in ThingWorx Composer:

◦ The LoadOAuthConfiguration service must be used to load OAuth configurations to the ThingWorx Flow server. This service provides a default template in the preconfigured format for all third-party services that support OAuth.

◦ The DeleteOAuthConfiguration or GetOAuthConfiguration services must be used to delete or retrieve OAuth configurations from the ThingWorx Flow server.

◦ With the DeleteOAuthAccessToken service, you can delete OAuth access tokens of a user for the specified OAuth provider or delete OAuth access tokens for all users for the specified OAuth provider.

◦ The RefreshMetadata service caches Windchill OData information to improve performance.

• You can access ThingWorx Composer from ThingWorx Flow.

• You can access ThingWorx Flow from ThingWorx Composer.

• The ThingWorx Flow dashboard has been redesigned to navigate easily to workflows, connectors, triggers, custom actions, and activity logs.

• Added the Sync action under Developer Tools to consolidate results of previous actions in multiple paths to the Sync action. It demonstrates the logical AND or OR operation.

• Added the Return Result action under Developer Tools to return the output of any executed action in the workflow to the synchronous ThingWorx service or webhook invoker, during workflow execution.

• Added Create Entity, Delete Entity, Get Properties, and Update Entityactions under SAP OData to query and manipulate datasets in your SAP system through CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations.

• Added Execute BAPI action under SAP RFC to execute default or custom BAPIs. The input form dynamically changes according to the BAPI that you provide.

• Added Execute Swagger APIaction under Windchill to execute Windchill Swagger APIs.

• Added Download Content action under Windchill to download content from the Windchill server.

• Added Upload Content action under Windchill to upload content in the form of a file, stream, or string to the Windchill server.

• Added Execute Stored Procedure action under SQL Connector to execute an SQL stored procedure.

• All third-party services that previously supported predefined, fixed OAuth accounts, OAuth (Named User) have been enhanced to additionally use the current session user’s identity. This new connector type is called OAuth (Session User). For more information, see Connector types.

• The HTTP Request action supports the basic connector type.

• Ability to add custom headers to actions that have HTTP-based interactions.

• Gitlab, JIRA , and ThingWorx support the OAuth connection types, OAuth (Named User) and OAuth (Session User).

• While loop added to the Loop action.

• All Bitly and Dialogflow actions have been updated.

◦ Added support for one-way SSL and two-way SSL connections.

◦ Ability to create and update multiple rows in the Create Rows and Update Rows actions.

◦ The Distinct check box provides the ability to return unique values in the column for the Get Rows and Get Rows with Join actions.

◦ Ability to add free-form SQL in the Where Clause and Join Clause input fields for Delete Rows , Get Rows, Get Rows with Join, and Update Rows actions.

◦ The Include Reference Domains check box in Execute Actions and Execute Functions actions provides the ability to display actions and functions that are described by ActionImport and FunctionImport in the referenced domains, respectively.

◦ Ability to include referenced navigation properties for Create Record and Update Record actions. The input form dynamically changes according to the entity set that you select.

◦ Ability to filter object properties through a Form-Based Query, Discrete Query, or Raw Query for Execute Actions, Execute Functions, and Get Records actions.

◦ The Include Reference Domains check box in Execute Actions and Execute Functions actions provides the ability to display actions and functions that are described by ActionImport and FunctionImport in the referenced domains, respectively.

◦ Ability to include referenced navigation properties for Create Entity and Update Entity actions. The input form dynamically changes according to the entity set that you select.

◦ Ability to filter object properties through a Form-Based Query, Discrete Query, or Raw Query for Execute Actions, Execute Functions, and Get Properties actions.

◦ Added support for Windchill Two-Way SSL connection and OAuth (Session User).

◦ The Include Reference Domains check box in Execute Actions and Execute Functions actions provides the ability to display actions and functions that are described by ActionImport and FunctionImport in the referenced domains, respectively.

◦ Ability to include referenced navigation properties for Create Entity and Update Entity actions. The input form dynamically changes according to the entity type that you select.

◦ Ability to filter object properties through a Form-Based Query, Discrete Query, or Raw Query for Execute Actions, Execute Functions , Get Entities by ID , and Get Entities by Query actions.