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Release Notes

Our Release Notes detail the latest features, enhancements, and updates made to Tonkean, compiled monthly.

July 2025

New Features

Solutions Studio

Module Builder
  • Submit an interface outside of complete an intake sequence - Previously, the only way to submit an interface was as part of an intake sequence, generally as the last step in that sequence. This posed some challenges for users who may have embedded interfaces for collecting or updating user information, for example. Now, you can leverage the Submit Interface action on any interface, activating this action with an interface header button or an Actions widget. Additionally, you can edit the field label for the Submit Interface action to be specific to the interface.

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  • Execute Action across modules - To enhance the capabilities of AI Agents as they operate across an entire process, we've added the ability to activate an Execute Action trigger from a separate module. This feature has been added to the Module Actions action, where makers can call an Execute Action trigger in another module within the same solution.

    This is an advanced feature. We recommend contacting Tonkean Support to set this up.

Custom Item Interfaces & Workspace Apps
  • Add or remove pages from the Front Door dropdown - We've added the option to hide individual workspace app pages on the Homepage search field dropdown, enabling admins to reduce the number of available options and avoid potential confusion with users. Admins can hide pages in the Page Configuration panel; they display by default for existing pages but will be hidden from the dropdown by default for new pages.

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  • Improved tooltips on custom interfaces and workspace app pages - We've updated our tooltips to improve readability with the following enhancements:

    • Adding a slight delay before they display

    • Updating the color to better match the page design

    • Setting a maximum width to stop large tooltips from being unnecessarily long

    • Adding line breaks to make large text especially more readable.

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  • Updated email validation for interface input fields - Tonkean's default validation for email fields now allows addresses that include a plus, "+". For example, evie+rose@tonkean.com will pass validation.

Tonkean AI

Improved AI Front Door metrics - We've added a host of new system-generated metrics related to the AI Front Door, enabling customers to better understand how users are engaging with the AI Front Door. These new metrics include the following:

  • CreatedAt: Date/time the user sent their message

  • FirstToolMessageSentAt: Date/time the agent sent its initial response

  • CompletedAt: Final answer received from the agent

  • FirstToolResponseTime MS: Time from user message to first agent response

  • FullResponseTime MS: Time from user message to final agent response

Use this raw data to generate usable overall metrics about your process, including how to improve AI Agent outcomes.

Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate the following new data sources with your Tonkean solutions:

  • Coupa Sourcing Organization (CSO) - Achieve optimal sourcing outcomes by evaluating price and non-price elements within your Tonkean workflow.

  • Linear - Manage projects with this dedicated issue tracking software designed for software development teams.

    Admins can also connect their Linear instance using an API key, if preferred.

Additionally, we've enhanced the following data sources:

  • Amazon S3 - We've added support for file path configuration through the Upload widget.

  • Jira - We've added support for additional delimiter options when using multiple choice values.

Bug Fixes

We fixed the following issues and bugs in recent releases:

  • Provisioning large amounts of users (manually or through a SCIM provider) was slow, leading to performance issues.

  • CSV import was failing in the MS Excel integration if column count was incorrect.

  • Workspace app table columns were not responding, save for Status and Title columns.

  • Workspace app table search incorrectly returned results that did not visually display.

  • The Upload Widget was not refreshing in sync with related widgets that included inner items, resulting in a mismatch on some interfaces.

  • The data source configuration screen displayed an incorrect collect time status, resulting in confusion as to when the next collect was scheduled.

  • Some users experienced the Embed widget not displaying the embedded file despite it appearing elsewhere.

  • Some manual fields were not updating as expected due to dependencies on old module versions.

  • Selecting Clear filter on the Fields panel in the module builder caused the page to crash.

  • Selecting the Solutions Studio link was not directing users to the Solutions Studio as expected.

  • The Back button was not displaying correctly on some interfaces.

  • Some users experienced a noticeable lag when calculating the "Display Conditions" value of a field definition.

  • Match Conditions triggers were not activating properly without manually refreshing the item in the Business Report.

  • Slack App integrations were not displaying all available channels on setup.

  • AI autofill was not honoring the Skip condition option when selected.

June 2025

New Features

Solutions Studio

Module Builder

Improved button design for Ask a Question action - We've improved the design of buttons sent using the Ask a Question action, making it more intuitive and easier to see, especially when included in an email message.

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User Management

We've added custom session timeouts, enabling admins to set session limits that align with their internal policies. The default value (and maximum session length) is 7 days, but can be set to any number of hours or days below that.

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When a user's session is nearing the prescribed time limit, the user receives a warning message:

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When the session ends, users are returned to the Sign In screen with a message at the top informing them that the session has timed out for secuirty purposes and they must sign in again:

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Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate the following new data sources with your Tonkean solutions:

Additionally, we've enhanced the following data sources:

  • Excel 365 - Users can now import CSV content into their Excel sheet.

  • Google Drive - We've added support for the Modify Labels action. We've also added the Create or Update Doc with Content action, which allows users to create a new doc or override the content of an existing document.

  • ServiceNow - We've added support for collecting Catalog Items.

We've also enhanced our no-code data sources to support calls to the entity fetcher from the module workflow, as well as support for token refresh for OAuth 2 when using the Custom OAuth type.

Bug Fixes

We fixed the following issues and bugs in recent releases:

  • Some users were unable to reconnect Google Sheets integrations unless they displayed as "broken."

  • Search results were incorrect when sort was pre-applied.

  • Some list-type fields were displaying despite being disabled.

  • There were field metadata conflicts when field names were identical except for letter case.

  • Admin-only Preferences pages displayed in end-user search results.

  • When @ mentioning another user in Slack, the reply button would spin forever.

  • Formula fields that depended on the creation of an inner items were not updating as expected.

  • Some process contributors were unable to access a published workspace app page.

  • A too-long request title was not generating an error as expected.

  • Some users were incorrectly listed as "external users" despite being provisioned users.

  • Images for supplier catalogs were not displaying correctly.

  • Some users were unable to view Board Settings.

May 2025

New Features

Solutions Studio

Module Builder

Improved data population controls - We’ve rolled out a new enhancement aimed at improving performance by providing controls to optimize how fields are updated. A new configuration option lets makers and admins specify which items/item level the field value will be updated on.

For example, you might select the Inner Items Only option when the field value is only relevant at the child level—such as if matched items that match an employeer (inner item) to their manager (root item) and the employee form needs manager info, but the manager doesn't need anything from the employee.

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Custom Item Interfaces & Workspace Apps

Items Table export enhancements - We've improved the CSV/XLSX export functionality to provide more configuration options for makers and admins, as well as an improved experience for end users:

  • New export configuration options - Makers and admins can enable or disable the export option, as well as allow export of all configured columns—not just the visible ones.

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  • Improved file names - Exported files now include a timestamp and the table name for easier tracking.

  • New status banner message - End users will now see a friendly message confirming their export is being prepared—helpful for large files that may take a few moments to download. In addition, if there is an error with the export there will be an Error toast message.

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User Management

We've made the following user authentication improvements:

  • All new Sign In page with an refreshed look and feel.

  • Updated sign in logic that enables users who may not know the correct authentication option for their organization to simply enter their email and Tonkean will automatically provide the correct authentication method. To support this streamlined experience, we moved the email sign in option above the other buttons.

    Users can continue to sign in using their SSO option, if known.

  • Removed trial board creation options.

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Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate Amazon Business with your Tonkean solutions.

Additionally, we've enhanced the following data sources:

  • Amazon S3 - We've added support for extracting content from HTML files.

  • Okta - We've added support for additional URL suffixes (for example, okta-emea).

  • SFTP - We added webhook support for the SFTP utility.

  • Slack - To comply with Slack’s updated privacy policies, Tonkean will no longer support message monitoring in private Slack channels starting May 31, 2025. Public channel monitoring remains fully supported, including for Slack-based AI Front Door use cases.

    Tonkean will still be able to send messages to private channels and support actions like button clicks or links, as these do not require reading channel content. This update ensures compliance with Slack’s platform standards and has been communicated to impacted customers individually.

We've also enhanced our no-code data sources to support custom OAuth fields in the request header, body, and query parameters.

Bug Fixes

We fixed the following issues and bugs in recent releases:

  • The built-in search on Items Tables and related widgets was not weighting results properly and was returning unexpected results.

  • The Create Ticket action was not working properly for some Zendesk integrations, resulting in custom fields not being sent in the expected location.

  • Some users were only able to edit items in an Items Table widget when the relevant interface was opened through the business report.

  • Solutions were indicating changes had been made and preventing publishing when no changes had been made.

  • User updates in Okta were incorrectly creating new users.

  • Some users were unable to update parent items from their inner items.

  • Buttons were not working correctly when used in email data sources.

  • Some date-time fields were returning incorrect values, such as values being transposed or times being offset by 12 hours.

  • Long text type field values were displayed as cut off in interface tabs.

  • The Upload widget was marking a change whenever the widget was selected.

  • Users were unable to limit a workspace app page to a specific business group if group members were in an identity provider-provisioned group.

  • The Inner Items widget was not fetching inner items at the third child level.

  • Some on-load actions were activated three times when starting a new sequence.

April 2025

New Features

User Experience

You can now easily add links to specific workspace app pages in the Tonkean Homepage, providing users with a direct link to the most used resources or information. To set this, navigate to the workspace app page settings and turn on the Feature page link in homepage toggle.

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When enabled, the page link displays below the main search bar on the Homepage:

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Solutions Studio

Module Builder
  • Go To Sequence action supports opening an interface in a matched item module - In addition to selecting from interfaces in the current module in the Go To Sequence action, you can now open an interface in a related module that has a matched item from the current module. For example, if you have an intake module that creates a matched item in another module for a review and that review module contains a separate interface to collect additional details, you can now direct users directly to that related module in the Go To Sequence action.

  • Surface action error messages in the UI and improved error handling - We've added default system fields to store any errors and error messages that occur during module actions that automatically create a matched entity (for example, data source actions). These error messages include the error code (for example, 404), the error message, the error response (in JSON format), and the error timestamp. Because these fields populate directly in the module, makers can leverage these values and create error handling logic to address them dynamically.

    For example, if a 403 permissions error occurs, the module can prompt the user to sign into the relevant system and give them an option to retry their action. This is a radical improvement from earlier error handling options that were generally limited to admins and required accessing the Module Events History to troubleshoot.

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  • Hide branches without values in the process map - Empty branches in the process map—for example, nodes that have been tentatively placed or are still in development—are now hidden in the Process Map widget. This update cleans up the display of the process map and avoids potential confusion.

Formulas

We've added the If formula, a broadly useful operator that checks a specified condition and returns one value if the condition is met and another value if the condition is not met. As a simple example, you can set the condition to check whether one value is greater than another (using the Greater Than formula) and return true if it is and false if it isn't.

This formula also has some default behavior built in—returning true if an input string is not empty or if an input integer is not zero.

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Custom Item Interfaces & Workspace Apps
  • Enhanced search and filtering in items table widgets - We've made significant improvements to the search and filtering experience in items table widgets across both workspace app pages and item interfaces, making it easier to find the item and information you're looking for:

    • Improved search matching - You can now search for terms with special characters (like dashes) and get accurate, exact-match results.

    • Expanded filter options - We've added Match / Does Not Match and Blank / Not Blank as filter options for search inputs.

    • Improved filtering for fixed-value columns - You can now filter for a specific value or select multiple preset values to return a specific combination of results. This includes People fields, too.

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  • View items from other modules in the Module Items widget - Rather than be limited to items only from the current module, the Module Items widget now supports displaying items from other modules in the same solution, including the option to add a condition to filter for specific items from that related module. This update is especially helpful for displaying items from a related process, like external reviews or comments regarding a specific request.

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  • Leverage pivots in the Items Table widget (BETA) - We've added the built-in pivot table functionality included in AG Grid to the Items Table/Module Items widgets in workspace app pages and item interfaces, allowing users to group values, perform aggregations, and perform other pivots.

    This feature is currently in beta and may not behave as expected.

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  • Download items from a workspace app page - You can now select the three dots button on an Items Table widget to download item data directly from a workspace app page as a CSV or Excel file, exporting all available items and their fields. This feature is designed for easy one-off downloads of item data.

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  • Full page size for single-widget interfaces and workspace app pages - For widgets that are commonly used by themselves on an interface or workspace app page, like the Comments widget, we've configured the display size to use the full screen size as opposed to the default size.

  • Limit visible content in search to current solution - Previously, the search bar in the upper right corner of the workspace app returned content across the relevant board (where allowed by access and permissions controls). To provide more clarity, we've updated the search to only show content from the current solution, hiding pages, actions, and other content from other solutions on the same board.

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User Management

Admins can now assign roles to groups of users brought in from an external identity provider like Okta or Ping Identity. By selecting the new option to Manage roles by provisioned groups on the Identity Provider screen, admins get the option to assign the Process contributor or System user roles. Using this option does ignore any roles sent from the external identity provider.

Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate the following new data sources with your Tonkean solutions:

  • Amazon SQS - Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a managed queuing service that enables asynchronous communication between different components of a distributed system.

  • BoldSign - BoldSign is a powerful tool for managing Users, Contacts, Sender Identities, and Teams.

  • Cisco Duo - Cisco Duo (commonly known as Duo Security) is a multi-factor authentication (MFA) and access security solution.

  • CyberArk - CyberArk is a leading Identity and Access Management (IAM) tool that provides robust security solutions for managing user identities and access.

  • Icertis - Icertis is a leading provider of contract lifecycle management (CLM) software that helps organizations create, manage, and optimize contracts across their entire lifecycle.

Additionally, we've enhanced the Outlook integration to enable users to add attachments up to 3mb to events using a new data source action.

Bug Fixes

We fixed the following issues and bugs in recent releases:

  • Searching for a value containing special characters like "-" in the items table widgets returned unexpected results.

  • Some users were unable to sort rows in items table widgets; similarly, applying filters were returning incorrect results.

  • Field values using some data formats displayed as "Invalid date" on interfaces and workspace apps.

  • Formula fields were not bringing in data from global fields when filtering data in a workspace app.

  • The date picker was not displaying at full width for some users.

  • Sending emails to business groups was not working as expected—Tonkean was showing zero recipients in populated business groups.

  • There was a delay in displaying user profile pictures in the Comments widget.

  • Matched item fields were not updating when updating the field in the source module.

March 2025

New Features

Solutions Studio

Module Builder

We've continued to add features to support collaboration with stakeholders outside your organization, such as vendors and contractors. In particular, updates to the Comments interface widget and related logic enable seamless collaboration from the stakeholder's preferred platform (like Slack, email, or Jira) while keeping all interactions centralized in Tonkean. These improvements reduce the need to switch between tools and improves response tracking:

  • Comment Added trigger - We've added the Comment Added trigger, which activates whenever a comment is added to an item. This feature is designed to support use cases where comments are added to the item using a custom interface and some response to that comment is required—such as sending a notification to a relevant stakeholder.

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  • New Add and Update Comment Module Actions option - In addition to the other options using the Module Actions action, you can now add or update a comment on an item. This new option enables users to dynamically add or update comments, including controlling the comment sender.

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    This action enables users to synchronize internal comments with external communications (such as those in Slack), including customizing the comment icon and Sender Display Name:

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  • Reply to an item comment thread using the Send Notification action - We've updated the Send Notification action with an option to reply to a comment thread on an interface or wherever that comment appears (such as in Slack). This update adds increased flexibility to the Send Notification action, making automated comments much easier—while maintaining thread integrity.

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Additionally, we've made the following two updates to the module builder:

  • Year as condotion operator - We improved condition groups, adding an option to specify Year as a value for the In this operator. For example, you can now create a condition that checks whether a date field has a value in the current year:

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  • Matched item and inner item improvements - We've improved the maker experience with new capabilities that make it easier to coordinate workflows between parent and inner items:

    • Update field on parent - You can now directly update fields on a parent item based on events or triggers from its inner items. For example, if a review task (inner item) becomes overdue, you can automatically mark the entire request (parent item) as overdue—no more relying solely on aggregation fields to reflect status upstream.

    • Match item to parent - Inner items can now be matched to their parent item, unlocking access to parent-level fields for use in actions or logic at the inner item level (without relying on an internal DB). This enables scenarios like automatically canceling or notifying inner item owners when a parent request is canceled.

    Together, these updates significantly streamline cross-level orchestration, giving you more control and flexibility when building workflows that span parent and inner item relationships.

Custom Item Interfaces & Workspace Apps
  • Trigger module logic on interface submission with the Execute Action trigger - In addition to activating Interface Submitted triggers, we've added the ability for Execute Action triggers to activate when a user submits an interface. This update adds a lot of flexibility to interface sequence logic, enabling makers to initiate workflow on interface submission that may not be directly related to the Interface Submitted trigger itself—such as mid-sequence actions.

    As part of this update, we've renamed the Button Clicked trigger to the Execute Action trigger, reflecting its enhanced flexibility and additional use cases.

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  • Comments widget enhancements - We've added various improvements to the interface Comments widget, including a full-page view when the Comments widget is the only widget on an interface, HTML support to view content coming from an external HTML source, and extending the comment limit size to 10,000 characters. These improvements further support collaboration internally and with stakeholders outside the organization.

  • Power the workspace app Chart widget using manual key-value pairs or JSON - In addition to selecting fields to populate a Chart widget on a workspace app page, you can now visualize key-value pairs or JSON from elsewhere in the workflow.

    The ability to power charts with JSON as this is the most common output format from Tonkean AI Agents, enabling data extracted by the Agents to dynamically power visualizations on workspace apps.

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User Management

Admins can now configure user authentication using OpenID Connect (OIDC), setting up a redirect to their organization's preferred authentication method, where one exists. This new generic OIDC option enables users with different SSO apps to set up authentication using the same streamlined interface.

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Tonkean AI

Since our February release, we have added additional capabilities to make it easier and faster to create, manage, and interact with agents. These updates enhance usability, transparency, and control—empowering business teams and builders alike to deliver high-impact automation that is easy and quick to set up.

Access to Agentic Orchestration is available for all customers—simply get in touch with your customer success manager or contact Support to get started.

Here's what's new:

  • Full-page interface view - We added support for full-page views for connected interfaces, in addition to embedded chat views, allowing users to engage with complex workflows in a dedicated UI when needed.

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  • Control access using business groups - Makers can now control which users have access to an Agent, ensuring only relevant teams have access to sensitive information or specialized business processes.

  • Reasoning visibility - To add visibility to how Agents respond to a query or request, we've included a collapsible reasoning section that details the various steps the Agent takes.

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  • Add filters to knowledge sources - Much like addition filters to data sources elsewhere in Tonkean, you can now add filters to Agent knowledge sources, improving the relevance and accuracy of Agent responses when searching data sources.

  • Agent tool toggles and duplication - To improve the ease of configuring access to specific tools, we've added an on/off toggle for the Agent Tools, including knowledge sources, intake sequences, and autonomous skills. A new option to duplicate existing tools similarly makes it easier to configure the resources Agents have access to.

Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate the following new data sources with your Tonkean solutions:

  • Posthog - Posthog offers a rich analytics and user insight platform designed to help developers understand how users use their product.

  • Webex Meetings - Webex offers a cloud-based suite of collaboration tools, including video conferences and messaging.

Additionally, we've enhanced the following data sources:

  • Coupa - We've made various additions and enhancements to the Coupa integration:

    • Added new project and task actions (Create a Project and Create a Project Task)

    • Added a Create a User action

    • Added new entities: Translations, Commodity Translations, and UOM Translation

    • Updated the Create a Sourcing Event action with the Template ID field.

  • Gitlab - Added the Users entity.

  • Google Drive - We've updated the logic when collecting file content: when the file is a shortcut, Tonkean now extracts the content of the target file.

  • Outlook - Added support for downloading email attachments to a connected file storage provider.

Lastly, we updated our no-code data source and custom action logic to encode any attached files retrieved by the action with base-64 encoding.

Bug Fixes

We fixed the following issues and bugs in recent releases:

  • Emails collected in Outlook were overridden with empty value.

  • The custom action request path configuration screen was not displaying correctly.

  • Authentication with Asana integrations was failing for some users.

  • Some users were unable to filter a column using the people picker.

  • Advanced filters were not working on the Owner field in Items widgets.

  • Selecting the Ask a Question block (while the module was published) was registering as an update to the action.

  • Comment widgets are indicating an incorrect 10k character limit.

  • Some users were unable to re-order workspace app pages.

  • Data source names were not updating after being manually edited.

February 2025

New Features

Tonkean AI

Agentic AI Orchestration - We are proud to announce Agentic Orchestration, a game-changing update that brings autonomous AI Agents into enterprise operations. These agents combine AI-driven intelligence with the rules-based automation already in your modules to handle complex back-office processes. Agents can answer policy questions, take action across integrated systems, manage workflows, and even create personalized user experiences—all on their own or as part of a team of AI agents working together.

Enterprise teams can configure agents to perform a wide variety of tasks:

  • Answer questions from policies to ensure compliance

  • Autonomously perform actions and query information across your connected systems

  • Coordinate and execute complex work to deliver on long-term initiatives

  • Operate alone or in collaboration with other relevant agents in a multi-agent architecture

Check out a few interesting use cases in the video below:

Users can engage with AI Agents from the AI Front Door, chat apps like Slack and Teams, and email. No matter where users prefer to work, Tonkean orchestrates engagement with agentic AI, ensuring requests flow seamlessly to the right agents and the specialized actions they can perform for users.

Access to Agentic Orchestration is available for all customers—simply get in touch with your customer success manager or contact Support to get started.

Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate Sirion Labs, the contract management solution, with your Tonkean solutions.

You'll also notice a redesign of the Tonkean Library (formerly "component library"), with an all-new user experience and options for searching and filtering for blueprints, templates, and native integrations.

Additionally, we've enhanced the following data sources:

  • Okta - We've added new actions for managing user credentials: Reset User Password and Expire User Password with Temporary One.

  • Zendesk - We've updated this integration to check whether a user already exists before creating a new org member.

Bug Fixes

We fixed the following issues and bugs in recent releases:

  • Users were unable to rename a SharePoint file with limited characters (a period, for example).

  • Some integrations in the Tonkean Library were displaying incorrect "Last Updated" dates.

  • Discarding changes to a workspace app page was failing.

  • Refreshing an item in the relevant business report was failing to update the matched item fields.

  • Some users were unable to update the name of data sources.

  • Number values couldn't be cleared from a field widget when custom Regex validation was applied to that field.

  • Selecting an interface with an action button to open a separate intake sequence was opening that sequence automatically.

  • Input widgets with people multi-select fields were not saving selections.

  • Interface widgets display inner items as cards were causing the drill-down interface to close when refreshing.

  • The Is Member Of condition was not working for business groups when said group was synced from an external data source.

January 2025

New Features

Solutions Studio

Custom Item Interfaces & Workspace Apps

To improve the user experience for the in-line AI (previously "AI Concierge") and intake collaboration features on user interfaces, we've streamlined the design—hiding the text labels by default and simply displaying icons by default.

Now, you can hover over the buttons to see the labels Ask AI and Collaborate. This update cleans up intake interfaces in particular, clarifying the function of these buttons and making these supporting features less intrusive for users filling out form fields.

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Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate the following new data sources with your Tonkean solutions:

  • Azure Files - Azure Files offers fully managed file shares in the cloud, enabling seamless file sharing and storage across numerous use cases.

  • Looker - Looker offers interactive dashboards and reports to inform data-driven business decisions.

  • Webflow - Webflow is an intelligent website creation tool.

  • xAI Grok - xAI Grok is a generative AI chatbot with direct access to the X application.

Additionally, we've enhanced the Google Drive data source's Create File action to enable PDF upload using the file's mime-type.

Bug Fixes

We fixed the following issues and bugs in recent releases:

  • Some interfaces were spontaneously refreshing multiple times upon initial load.

  • When setting up entity collection for a custom data source, a pagination error caused an infinite page collection loop.

  • Some users experienced a UI error that caused interface configuration fields to display over-sized.

  • Asana integrations were not working as expected due to an API token refresh error.

  • Closing an interface that was opened in a modal over another interface resulted in a 404 error.

December 2024

New Features

Solutions Studio

Module Builder

We've updated dropdown-type field descriptions, with special support for dropdown fields populated with matched entities. Previously, makers relied on markdown to dynamically add descriptions to dropdown options populated with matched entities. Now, you can add descriptions using a dedicated configuration field, simplifying the process and making the end result clearer in the configuration process.

There are many use cases for dropdown descriptions pulled from a matched entity. For example, if you have a matched entity for phone number country codes, you can include a description with the country name for each code (that is, a value of +1 and a description of USA).

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Custom Item Interfaces & Workspace Apps
  • Search widget enhancements - We've updated the Search widget with several design and performance improvements. These improvements include pre-populating search terms with common and recommended search terms, an updated load indicator, and a generally improved design. Together, these enhancements improve the overall usability of the Search widget.

  • Drill down interface enhancements - We've made several updates to how items behave on various widgets that provide drill-down interfaces, including the Search widget, Line Items widget, and others. Drill-down interfaces now behave in a more organic way, providing direct links that you can right-click to easily copy or open in a new tab. Additionally, the interface better maintains the state, allowing you to refresh the interface page without closing the opened drill-down interface.

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    A drill-down interface displayed as a modal over the parent interface.

User Management

We have updated the audit logs for admins with important user provisioning information, helping admins and Tonkean Support to better address any issues related to user management, especially when using external identity providers like Okta and Entra ID.

Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate Figma, the leading cloud-based design and prototyping tool, with your Tonkean solutions.

Additionally, we've enhanced the following data sources:

  • Excel - Admins now have control over collect time intervals.

  • Origami Risk - We've improved the performance of this integration by updating the integration's URL structure.

  • SharePoint Online - We've added a new Create a File action.

  • SimpleLegal - We've added support for collecting matter billing information.

Bug Fixes

We fixed the following issues and bugs in recent releases:

  • Dropdown fields populated with a matched entity were missing values.

  • Some users experienced the items disappearing in an Items table when turning on the Match inner items option on an interface.

  • Filtering for items with an Owner value returned unassigned items.

  • Selecting the Back button twice in quick succession made the button briefly disappear and reappear.

  • A Field Changed trigger was not activating when a field was updated on an update form.

  • Some intake sequences were opening in new windows despite the default option to open in a modal being set.

  • Some users were unable to set 12:00 AM as the scheduled module run time.

  • The Inner Items Count formula was not updating without a manual refresh.

  • Re-authenticating a Slack data source was causing all connection settings to reset.

  • The Maximum files field on the Upload widget was not editable, not allowing users to set upload limits.

November 2024

New Features

Solutions Studio

Custom Item Interfaces & Workspace Apps
  • OCR widget - This new item interface widget leverages Tonkean's OCR capability to quickly identify and display extracted values in a document image (like an invoice, for example). The OCR widget provides an overlay that highlights the extracted values and where those values were found in the document, helping users quickly compare data from multiple documents simultaneously.

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  • Search widget - This new item interface widget adds the flexible and powerful capability to search connected data sources in a custom item interface. The main use case for this widget is as part of guided buying experiences where users must be able to select multiple items from a connected catalog based on item name, image, description, price, etc. However, the Search widget is flexible enough to use throughout your interfaces, like for providing a search for active requests or searching a connected knowledgebase.

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  • Add an icon for each field in the Fields widget - In addition to selecting an icon for the widget as a whole, you can now add and customize an icon for each field included in a Fields widget.

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  • Open interface sequences in a modal - Previously, interface sequences opened from an interface button only opened up in a new browser tab, potentially causing a user to lose their place in the process. We've added the ability to open these interface sequences in a modal within the existing browser tab. This update improves many experiences, but was primarily designed to support processes where multiple team members are collaborating on various sub-processes of a larger interface sequence workflow.

    Interface sequences still open on a new tab by default; to set the sequence to open in a modal, locate the button that opens the relevant sequence and de-select the Open in new tab toggle.

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  • Customizable interface Submit and Back button label - In addition to customizing the Submit button label for Interface Submitted triggers, you can now customize the Back button label, helping support use cases where multiple languages are used for interface sequences.

Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate the following new data sources with your Tonkean solutions:

  • Bill - Bill empowers businesses to monitor and manage their financial workflows efficiently.

  • Microsoft PowerBI - PowerBI provides powerful actions to enhance productivity, including generating reports, managing groups, and accessing detailed insights from datasets.

  • Ramp - Ramp is an innovative financial platform that empowers businesses by simplifying expense management, controlling corporate spending, and driving efficiency.

  • Verint Engagement Data Management - Verint enables organizations to capture, analyze, and apply engagement data, leading to improved customer interactions and more strategic decision-making.

  • Workday Custom Reports - This Workday service enables users to create and retrieve custom reports from Workday.

  • Zendesk Help Center - Zendesk Help Center is a robust knowledge management tool designed to empower customers and support agents with on-demand access to information.

Additionally, we've enhanced the following data sources:

  • Docusign - We've added the web URL of the envelope to the Envelope entity.

  • Google Drive - We've added a new Get Document Suggested Changes action.

  • SharePoint Online - We've added a new Get File Content action.

Finally, we added a new native data source action, Lookup. This new action allows users to define a custom action to query an endpoint with a specific search term, helping to support configuration options in the Search widget.

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Bug Fixes

We fixed the following issues and bugs:

  • The Embed Interface widget was not displaying correctly when included in a long interface sequence.

  • Some users were unable to open an item from the Items Table widget.

  • The AI Concierge was not working as expected when running on Azure OpenAI service.

  • Some users were unable to delete existing webhooks for Docusign integrations.

  • The columns and fields in a scheduled report sent via email were ordered randomly.

October 2024

New Features

Solutions Studio

Module Builder
  • Configure email headers in the Send Notification action - Advanced users can now add custom headers when sending emails in the Send Notification action. Custom headers can be helpful in improving the deliverability of emails and enriching the metadata of an email message.

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  • Tonkean set as default updater for all new action blocks - Previously, the default setting for the Updater field in relevant action blocks, like Update Field, was the module's Default actor. This configuration meant that the module's default actor displayed as the user responsible for what amount to system actions taken by the module itself, sometimes causing confusion about who's responsible for workflow actions. We've updated this behavior to set Tonkean as the default option for the Updater field, better aligning with the actual behavior of your workflow.

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Formulas

We added several new formulas to Tonkean this month, plus some other formula-related enhancements. Read about the new formulas below and get more information in our Formulas reference topic.

  • New formula parameter tooltips - We've added tooltips to select formulas with helpful notes about available parameter options and expected behaviors, helping to streamline the process of creating new formula fields.

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  • New time units for the Add Time formula - In addition to Days, Hours, and Minutes, you can now create Add Time formula fields using Years and Months as units.

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  • Add Work Time - This new formula adds units of time to a provided date, taking into account specified business operation days and hours. For example, if you wanted a trigger to activate 8 hours after you receive a help desk ticket, but only counting time accrued during business hours, you can rely on this formula to keep track of that.

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Custom Item Interfaces & Workspace Apps

Rich Text Editor input widget - The new Rich Text Editor widget allows users to provide extended, formatted text submissions to be stored in a long text field. The Rich Text Editor widget is a full-featured rich text field, supporting formatted text like bold, italics, and strikethrough, as well as images, links, and more—providing an incredibly flexible widget to gather important information from users.

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Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate Beeline, the workforce management platform, with your Tonkean solutions.

Additionally, we've enhanced the following data sources:

  • SharePoint Online - We've added several new actions to the SharePoint integration this month:

    • Fill PDF Form

    • Copy File

    • Monitor Task Status

    • Generate a Signed URL

  • Zendesk - We've added support for Zendesk Organizations and Organization Memberships, including new actions.

Bug Fixes

We fixed the following issues and bugs:

  • Some users experienced an unexpected break between a parent and child module when editing a manual field of a matched entity.

  • The Comments widget was not displaying tooltips for "@fields".

September 2024

New Features

Solutions Studio

Formulas

We added several new formulas to Tonkean this month. Read about the new formulas below and get more information in our Reference topic for Strings formulas.

  • Field Groups To Map - This new formula generates a JSON object containing the field and value pairs for a provided field group.

    A field group is a set of fields assigned the same field group name, allowing them to be used collectively for certain operations, like formulas. For more information about adding fields to a field group, see Manual Fields.

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  • Get User Name - This new formula returns the full user name for a given user using their email address sourced from a connected communication source (for example, Slack of Teams). If no user name is found, the formula simply returns the email address.

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  • Get Value By Key - This new formula returns the value for a provided JSON key.

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  • Join Arrays - This new formula joins two arrays into a single array, either maintaining all values or removing any duplicate values.

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  • JSON to XML - This new formula converts a string in JSON format to XML format without options for adding a Root Name and a declaration.

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Custom Item Interfaces & Workspace Apps
  • Display dynamic dropdowns as radio buttons - You can now configure a Dropdown input widget with options that display dynamically (using a matched entity) to display as radio buttons. This update dropdown fields with large numbers of options more scannable, helping users to more easily select options.

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  • AI Concierge in embedded interfaces - You can now take advantage of the Interface Embed widget while still giving users access to the AI Concierge. The Interface Embed widget is a powerful tool for reducing overhead and maintenance in your intake sequence while ensuring a consistent experience—now that includes all the benefits of the AI Concierge.

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Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate the following new data sources with your Tonkean solutions:

  • Beroe LiVE.Ai - Beroe LiVE.Ai is an AI-driven procurement intelligence platform offering real-time insights, supplier risk assessments, and market data to help organizations optimize supply chain decisions and reduce risks.

  • DISCO - DISCO is a cloud-based legal platform that streamlines eDiscovery, case management, and legal document review.

  • Nylas - Nylas is a communications platform offering APIs to integrate email, calendar, and contacts into apps. It simplifies connecting to multiple providers, syncing data, and managing backend tasks like security and compliance.

  • Snowflake - Snowflake is a data storage and cloud computing platform. Snowflake is offered as a new SQL connection to Tonkean.

Additionally, we've enhanced the following data sources:

  • DocuSign - SpringCM is now a part of Docusign. We've added relevant endpoints for SpringCM through the Docusign integration.

  • Google Drive - We've updated the Create Doc/Slide From Template action to support JSON input.

Bug Fixes

We fixed the following issues and bugs:

  • Some users experienced errors when selecting the dropdown field column filter on workspace app pages.

  • Open Interface action buttons were not displaying on the Actions widget.

  • Business groups were only displaying the first 10 group members.

  • The Number format option wasn't providing commas on the Line Items widget.

  • Some users had to select a button twice to activate a module trigger.

  • The conditional disabled state was not working properly for action buttons on interface headers.

  • Custom validation was not working as expected on Number input type widgets.

  • Item data was not loading when navigating between items on a drill-down interface.

  • Some users were unable to manually enter data or time information on a Date input type widget.

  • After changing a trigger to the Button Clicked type, a related match condition was not activating.

  • Some users were unable to configure color options on interface widget quick navigation icons.

August 2024

New Features

Solutions Studio

Formulas

We've added a new formula, Is In List, which checks whether a specified value is included in a given field (generally a list). If the specified value is included, the formula returns true; if not, it returns false. This formula improves the experience for makers who want to check whether a field contains one or more values during a workflow.

In the example below, the formula checks the Reviewer field and returns true if the field contains Ashley Taylor as a value.

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Custom Item Interfaces & Workspace Apps
  • Submit button label - You can now customize the submit interface button label, better tailoring it to your intake sequence. This new customization option is helpful for providing requesters with specific information about what action they're taking when selecting the button.

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  • Add comment to item on behalf of another user - We've added the ability to add a comment to an item on behalf of another user, allowing you to include comments added from a third-party tool like email or Jira. This update makes it easier to indicate when a comment originates from an external system or user.

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Tonkean AI

We've given admins better control over the AI Front Door and the data it has access to by updating the configuration process and enabling admins to expose only specific entities to the Front Door.

Previously, there was a simple toggle that, when enabled, gave the Front Door access to all entities in a given data source—but posed some challenges for teams that work with potentially sensitive data like contracts or personal information. Now, admins can restrict the Front Door's access to only specific data source entities, ensuring that the Front Door cannot share potentially sensitive information. Additionally, admins can create filters to only expose a subset of entities to the Front Door, further restricting access if needed.

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For more information about how to configure and customize AI Front Door access see Enable AI Front Door Access to Your Content.

Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate Dell Punchout, the catalog buying experience, with your Tonkean solutions.

Additionally, we've enhanced the following data sources:

  • Coupa - You can now collect the Asset Tags entity.

  • DocuSign - We've added the URL to the Envelope entity.

  • Google Drive - We've added a new action: Get Document Suggested Changes.

  • Oracle - We've added a new action: Cancel Purchase Requisition.

Bug Fixes

The following bugs have been fixed:

  • When deleting an item in the Detailed Items widget, the field validation was not working as expected.

  • The navigation menu was not displaying correctly for some users on drill-down interfaces.

  • Some users were unable to add a new OneDrive integration.

  • Some users were unable to create a share/preview link to a SharePoint location.

  • Thread replies on root monitored items were failing intermittently.

  • Some custom actions were not detecting updates and not saving correctly.

  • When attempting to open a drill-down interface containing an Upload widget, the interface was reverting to the default interface.

  • The option in a dropdown field to display manual "backup" values if no matched entity value is found was not working as expected.

  • Users were unable to select a checkbox option when the option value included commas.

  • Some users were unable to open a matched item interface from the relevant business report.

July 2024

New Features

User Experience

We're excited to announce the release of the Enterprise Copilot, an evolution of Tonkean AI functionality. We've improved and extended the power of the AI Front Door to virtually every part of the platform, supporting users throughout the entire lifecycle of internal requests.

Most notably, we've added the AI Concierge, an LLM-powered assistant that helps requesters by answering questions with context-specific responses, writing content, and generally helping create fully formed and accurate requests. The Concierge is the first line of support for requesters, and if they still need more help, they can reach out to their colleagues by selecting the Collaboration button in the intake sequence.

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Here's where your internal users can engage with Tonkean AI:

  • AI Front Door - Field plain-language inquiries over email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and/or custom portals. Answer common questions, autonomously resolve simple requests, route to the proper form sequences for more complex items, and deflect out-of-policy requests.

  • AI-enhanced intake sequences - Personalized form sequences take user roles and situational signals into account to radically simplify intake, pre-populating fields with data from connected systems across the enterprise tech stack and eliminating steps with dynamic conditional logic.

  • In-line AI Q&A - Autonomously answer questions directly within form sequences using AI, providing responses that consider the stage of the request, the specific fields the requester is working on, and the broader organizational processes and policies.

Wherever requesters are in the process, Tonkean AI is there to guide, answer questions, and connect users with the people who can solve their problems. Here's a quick example of the in-line Q&A experience using the AI Concierge:

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To take advantage of all Enterprise Copilot features, contact Tonkean Support or your designated account manager.

Solutions Studio

Module Builder

We've increased the maximum archival period for items, from three to seven years. This update supports customers with requirements for extended audit trails. You can configure module item archival periods in the module settings.

Custom Item Interfaces & Workspace Apps
  • Quick link to interface builder from module builder - A new link to the interface builder directly from the module builder makes it easy to make quick edits or updates to the interface you're working on within the module workflow. You can find this Edit interface link interface intake sequence step panels, such as Send Item Interface.

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  • Update fields directly in the Update Status action - This enhancement allows you to perform an inline field update in the same way you could previously update the item status. By selecting the Change Fields button (previously the Update Status button), you can update the item status and specify fields to update at that point in the workflow. This new capability makes updating field values at specific points in the workflow much more intuitive and avoids the need for additional dedicated logic.

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  • Descriptions for radio button options - In addition to the values set in a dropdown field displayed as radio buttons (in an interface or form), you can now add descriptions for each value. These descriptions display directly below the main value and are included in searches.

    To add descriptions to dropdown field values, simply include the description after the value, wrapped in three back ticks (for example, ```value description```).

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  • Set a default column width for the Line Item widget - This update enables users to set default minimum and maximum percentage values for the width of specified field columns in the Line Items widget, ensuring the data in the table is clearly visible.

  • Disable reply in threads in the Comments widget - Users can now disable thread replies in the Comments widget. This update solves the problem of being unable to communicate with an external data source that doesn't support reply threads (like Jira, for example) in the Comments widget. When replies are disabled, all comments are added to the interface as individual messages.

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  • Order comments in the Comments widget from oldest to newest - In addition to the default sorting of newest to oldest, users can now sort comments in the Comments widget from oldest to newest, placing the newest comment at the bottom of the widget.

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  • New icons - We've added the "Untitled" icons from the Figma library to provide a streamlined, modern option in the icon picker.

Board Management

You can now update the search prompt text on the Tonkean homepage and display a homepage title if not using a homepage cover logo. This update provides users with another level of customization for their homepage.

Note that if you have uploaded a homepage cover logo, the homepage title is disabled.

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Enterprise Components

Native Data Sources

You can now integrate with Cvent, the event planning and management software, with your Tonkean solutions.

Additionally, we've enhanced the following data sources:

  • Amazon S3 - You can now perform a single collect from multiple S3 buckets.

  • Ironclad - You can now collect SCIM users from your Ironclad instance.

  • LawVu - We've added the Status field to the Matter entity.

  • Oracle - We've added the Inventory Organizations and Locations entities.

  • Origami Risk - You can now specify the length of time after which Tonkean collects Origami Risk entities. Contact Tonkean Support to set this up.

  • Sage Intacct - We've added the entities Inventory Transaction Definition and Bin, and the Create an Inventory Transaction action.

  • SharePoint Online - We've added support for index file content for the following file types: DOCX, XLSX, PDF, PPTX, CSV, and TXT.

Bug Fixes

The following bugs have been fixed:

  • Some Microsoft Outlook integrations were failing to collect messages without a created time.

  • Data retention settings weren't showing for all entities.

  • Some users were unable to update the text color in an interface.

  • An error was not displaying for comments more than 1,000 characters in the Comments widget.

  • The thank you message at the end of an intake sequence was failing to load.

  • Some users were unable to search for icons when creating a new workspace app page.

  • When changing a trigger type from Wait to Field Changed in the middle of a module workflow, the flow was failing.