Cerb (8.3.1) is a maintenance update released on March 12, 2018. It includes 10 minor features and fixes from community feedback covering the 8.3 update. You can follow these instructions to upgrade.

• [Bots/Interactions] In bot interaction behaviors, prompt actions can now automatically save the user’s next response to a placeholder. Previously, this required a ‘Set custom placeholder’ action after every prompt. This makes it simpler to build conversational behaviors. [#586]

• [Bots/Interactions] In bot interaction behaviors, prompt actions can now specify a format template when setting a placeholder. For instance, a date can be formatted as a timestamp, a yes/no question can be formatted as a 0/1 boolean, a number can be formatted to the proper precision, etc. Previously this required a separate ‘Set custom placeholder’ action.

• [Bots/Interactions] In bot interaction behaviors, prompt actions can now specify a validation template. For instance, a number can be confirmed to be numeric and within certain bounds (e.g. 1-100). Any output in the validation template is considered to be an error and this will be used as the bot’s response to the input. A blank validation response indicates success. Previously, this level of validation required a good amount of work: loops (retry until successful input is given), decisions (is this valid input?), outcomes (yes/no), and additional actions (error messages). This is all handled in a simple and elegant manner from a single prompt action now. This makes the process of creating conversational behaviors significantly simpler. [#622]

• [Packages/Behaviors] In packages, it’s now possible to import behaviors for existing bots. Previously, it was only possible to create behaviors on a new bot included in the package. This is used for a migration script that converts Cerb 7.x macros to 8.x-style bot interactions.

• [Bots/Actions] In bots, the ‘Run behavior’ action can now run behaviors against ‘Mixed Record’ list variables. This allows the same behavior to be reused by multiple interactions against different record types.

• [Security/Feedback] Fixed a potential XSS issue in feedback entry records.

• [Feedback/UX] When editing feedback entry records, the email address chooser now allows autocomplete input.

• [Bots/Scripting] In bot scripting, fixed an issue with the secs_pretty filter. It was failing when given integer inputs rather than strings. Now either works.

• [Developers/Bots] Added a DevblocksDictionaryDelegate->set($key, $value) method for setting dynamic keys in dictionaries. Previously, keys required a separate temporary variable before using the __set() magic method.

• [Bots/Actions] In bots, when using the ‘Run behavior’ action, placeholders can now be used when passing in checkbox, picklist, and worker variables. Previously, these could only be set to a specific value, which complicated automation.