Version Release Notes (Changelog)
Virto Workflow Automation
| Version | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 6.1.9 | 2026-10-30 | [*] The license activation link in the ReadMe file of the installation package opens the product activation page of the documentation [+] The product is available in 14 languages: English, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian. The language follows the language of the site [-] Workflow Monitor: the workflow status and, in the Scheduler, the trigger type and the schedule status were always shown in English [*] The buttons that open the web part settings are named “Configure Web Part Settings” in the tool pane of the classic web parts and “Configure Web Part” in the property pane of the modern web parts, the same spelling as in the other Virto web parts [-] Workflow Monitor: the Status column was empty for SharePoint 2010 workflows [-] Workflow Monitor: SharePoint 2013 workflows showed internal status names such as Started and NotStarted; they now show In Progress, Not Started and the other standard statuses, and the status filters include them [-] Workflow Monitor: the Initiator column showed the account name of the user instead of the display name, and the system account as its account name instead of System Account [-] Workflow Scheduler: the Item column showed the internal name of the item selection, such as SingleListItem, instead of the selected item or a readable label [-] Workflow Monitor: SharePoint 2013 workflows of a list or site were missing from the list because they were read without the user’s credentials; when a source cannot be read, a message now says which one [-] Workflow Monitor: the selected list was reset to All lists while the lists of the chosen site were loading [-] Workflow Monitor: after choosing a site and a list and pressing Search workflows, the filters went back to All sites and All lists and the table showed every workflow [-] Workflow Scheduler: a weekly schedule with Recur every 1 week could not be saved (Validation failed); a failed check is now shown at the field it concerns [-] Workflow Scheduler: the Completed link in the Result column and the item link in the Item column opened the internal address of the farm; they now use the address the page was opened with [-] Workflow Scheduler: the Enable check box in the Edit Workflow Schedule panel was always checked, also for a disabled schedule [-] Workflow Scheduler: a schedule that has never run showed Invalid Date instead of Never in Last Runtime [-] After an upgrade installed on the same day as the previous one, browsers could keep the scripts of the previous version until their cache expired [-] Workflow Scheduler: right after saving, Next Runtime and Last Runtime were shown in the server’s time zone and format; they are now shown like the other rows, in the browser’s time zone and format [-] Workflow Activities for SharePoint 2010 workflows: typo in the name of the activity Send Xmpp (Jabber) instant message [*] The license messages of Workflow Monitor and Workflow Scheduler name the product Virto Workflow Automation instead of Virto Workflow Monitor and Virto Workflow Scheduler [-] Workflow Monitor: the Started column showed the start time in the time zone of the server; it is now shown in the time zone and format of the browser, like the Next Runtime and Last Runtime columns of the Scheduler [*] The license message of an unlocked, not yet activated license shows how much time is left to complete the activation [-] When the activation was not completed within 7 days, the product showed a general “license has expired” message; it now says that the activation was not completed and how to finish it [-] The SharePoint 2010 workflow actions did not see the activated license of Virto Workflow Automation and kept working on the trial period, so they stopped working when the trial ended [-] Workflow Scheduler: the result of the last run was shown in the language of the server, not in the language of the page [-] Workflow Scheduler: the status of a disabled schedule was shown as a command (“Deaktivieren”) in German and with wrong words in Czech, Spanish and Chinese [-] The About section in the tool pane of the classic web parts was always named in English [*] Security hardening after a code analysis: list, group and user names typed in a workflow are inserted into the messages of the workflow actions as they are, without being interpreted [*] Updated third-party components |
| 6.1.8 | 2026-10-18 | [-] Online activation of a license key failed with an error; the product now connects to the activation server over a secure connection (HTTPS) [-] On sites in a language the product is not translated into, some labels and buttons showed internal names instead of English text [-] The Deploy.ps1 script of the installation package updates an installed solution to the new package, deploys a package without web application resources to the farm, stops with the reason when the deployment fails, and skips features that are already active [-] An error during the license check no longer shows technical details (a stack trace) in the license message; they are written to the SharePoint log [-] Workflow Scheduler: the loading indicator of the schedule list and of the workflow step was shown without text [-] Workflow Scheduler: the time box showed “HH:MM (time placeholder)” instead of “HH:MM” [-] Workflow Scheduler: validation messages showed “Fiedl Required” instead of “Field required” [-] Workflow Scheduler: the delete confirmation showed a placeholder instead of the number of selected schedules [-] Workflow Monitor: messages after starting, restarting or terminating workflows showed placeholders instead of the number of workflows or the error details [*] Workflow Monitor: the page counter of the workflow list is shown as “Page 1 of 3 (120 items)” [-] SharePoint updates (PSConfig) could run for hours on farms with many site collections: installing the product activated it on every site collection and updated the application content on the server for each of them [*] The product is no longer activated automatically on all site collections of the farm; it is activated on the site collections chosen during installation [-] Error messages shown in the browser no longer contain technical details (stack traces); they are written to the SharePoint log with a correlation ID [-] The trial period starts when the product is installed or upgraded; before, the product showed “license has expired” until the product registration page in Central Administration was opened [*] In the settings panels the Save button is the highlighted one and Cancel the secondary one [*] Trial and license messages look the same as in the other Virto products: an orange bar for a trial or a warning, a red bar when the license is not valid [*] Requests that change data are accepted only from pages of the product itself (protection against cross-site request forgery) [-] Scheduled workflows were never started: the Workflow Schedule job skipped every site collection because it checked for a feature that is no longer part of the package [-] The last run time and result of a schedule were not saved after it ran, and the texts of the Workflow Schedule web part could not be localised |
| 6.1.7 | 2026-10-04 | [-] A demo key issued for Workflow Automation was not accepted by the Workflow Schedule and Status Monitor web parts [+] A warning is shown on the product pages when the Web License Manager installed on the farm is older than the product requires, with a link to the update instructions [-] Re-activating the feature no longer rewrites web.config or recycles the application pools when the authorization entries are already in place [*] Web.config changes made during feature activation are no longer applied immediately across the whole farm; they are picked up in the background, which prevents activation timeouts and the endless activation loop during SharePoint patching (PSConfig) [+] Demo keys with a fixed expiration date can be applied in Central Administration (Virto License Manager) after the trial period ends; they work without Internet access [+] Users see a warning on the product forms when the Virto ONE subscription has expired, with the date the product stops working [-] Workflow actions could stop working after a SharePoint security update; reactivating the Workflow Automation feature or redeploying the solution now restores their authorization [-] Deactivating the feature could remove the Workflow Schedule / Status Monitor web parts and end with an access error [-] Deactivating the feature on one site collection stopped workflow monitoring and scheduling on the other site collections of the web application [-] Web parts had no icon in the classic “Insert > Web Part” gallery [*] Web part icons are now blue, in the standard SharePoint colour [-] The modern web parts were also listed in the classic “Insert > Web Part” gallery, without icons |
| 6.1.6 | 2026-07-13 | [*] Icons [-] Bugs [*] UI |
| 6.1.5 | 2025-11-17 | [+] Release |
| 6.1.4 | 2025-07-14 | [*] Virto License Manager |
| 6.1.3 | 2024-02-01 | [*] SendEmailWithAttachments action |
| 6.1.2 | 2020-10-13 | [+] Set site master page activity has been added.; [*] Support of SSL/TLS has been added to Web Request action. ; [*] IsMessageUrgent parameter has been added to Send Email action.; [-] Null reference exception is fixed in Get emails from list/list item actions. |
| 6.1.1 | 2020-06-29 | [-] Minor bug has been fixed in Convert Word to PDF action. |
| 6.1.0 | 2019-04-19 | [+] SharePoint 2019 support; [+] Added: Replace Text in Word Document, Update Word Document, Convert InfoPath to PDF, Move Active Directory user into Organizational Unit, Execute SQL script to read data, Execute PowerShell script actions. |
| 6.0.0 | 2016-06-28 | [+] SharePoint 2016 support |
| 5.7.7 | 2016-09-13 | [+] “Update Word Document” activity added; [+] “Replace Text in Word Document” activity added |
| 5.7.6 | 2016-08-11 | [+] “Copy/Move List Item” activity added |
| 5.7.5 | 2016-08-08 | [-] Refactored the “Create SharePoint site” activity |
| 5.7.4 | 2016-07-22 | [+] “Upload attachment” activity added |
| 5.7.3 | 2016-06-17 | [+] Group of SharePoint administration activities added |
| 5.7.2 | 2016-05-30 | [-] Fixed “Send Email with InfoPath Attachments” activity in the Repeating table |
| 5.7.1 | 2016-05-13 | [+] “Send Email with InfoPath Attachments” activity added |
| 5.7.0 | 2016-04-15 | [+] Group of permissions activities added |
| 5.6.1 | 2016-02-16 | [*] Workflow now terminates if an activity fails instead of suspending |
| 5.6.0 | 2016-02-08 | [+] License validation added; [-] Fixed error message handling during activity execution |
| 5.5.1 | 2015-11-16 | [+] “Convert InfoPath to PDF” activity added |
| 5.5.0 | 2015-11-06 | [+] “Is Impersonate” parameter added to Email and List processing activities |
| 5.4.6 | 2015-08-20 | [-] Updated “Send Email With Attachments” – fixed bug with workflow manager service account; Added URL encoding for attachment names |
| 5.4.5 | 2015-08-17 | [*] Updated “Send Email With Attachments” – activity now runs under initiator account; Added more logging |
| 5.4.4 | 2015-08-12 | [+] Updated “Send Email With Attachments” – can send list item attachments |
| 5.4.3 | 2015-08-10 | [*] Updated name for each activity module |
| 5.4.2 | 2015-07-22 | [+] “Send Email With Attachments” activity added |
| 5.4.1 | 2015-07-13 | [+] Workflow2013: Microsoft.SharePoint.DesignTime.Activities.dll added to wsp package |
| 5.4.0 | 2015-07-09 | [+] Support for Virto License Manager v.3.0.0 |
| 5.3.0 | 2015-06-29 | [+] Supports migration from SharePoint 2007 |
| 5.2.0 | 2015-06-22 | [+] Supports migration from SharePoint 2010 |
| 5.1.3 | 2015-05-19 | [+] First public release for SharePoint 2013. Added 10 free activities:; - Get List Items; - Copy/Move Document; - Create List Item; - Update List Item; - Add/Remove folder; - Copy/Move folder; - Copy/Move attachments; - Get Attachments; - Waiting for Changes Fields; - Split String |
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