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With the upcoming MQTT Connector in mind, UA Office Link introduces two new Task Processors to encode and decode JSON or binary data. The JSON Encoder accepts other tags and builds a JSON object string from a template, filling in live values where required before passing it on to the…

UA Office Link's ODBC connector can now be used as a task "Processor", simplifying recipe transfers or calls to stored procedures that expect input arguments and return result values. Besides "Read" and "Write" access, the ODBC Connector topics feature a new "Process" access mode. In this mode, a custom query…

The ODBC Connector, already optimized for a range of individual database engines, extends support for identifiers used in database queries. While the automatically generated identifiers for "generic" topics in "Insert" or "Update" queries usually do not require any special consideration, "Select" or custom read queries may need to access pre-existing…

UA Office Link now supports headless deployment on Window Server Core and remote administration. Remote administration may also be configured on any other supported Windows operating system, whether it has a Desktop GUI or not. In a remote administration setup, Internet Information Server serves the frontend API. A powershell script…

UA Office Link's user access control adds a new 'Operator' role in addition to "Administrator", "User" and "Guest". Operators can start and stop tasks but cannot modify tasks and cannot view or modify other settings. Operators therefore have more rights than guests but less than Users who may edit tasks.