# Version 1.24

August 25, 2022

**A new release of Sherpa** **Designer: version 1.24**

1. Added the ability to run one or more background robot scenarios in parallel from the main robot scenario. All concurrently running scenarios use the same license. Background robots can perform any non-visual actions; however, only one of the concurrently running robots can interact with user interfaces at any given time. Blocks for managing background robots have been added: "Start Robot," "Check Robot Completion."
2. Added Sherpa UI Explorer — a UI explorer for independently exploring the application selector tree and generating various selectors. The UI Explorer is compatible with desktop, web, SAP, Java, and other types of custom selectors. The "Sherpa Explorer" button is located on the top toolbar of the Designer in the "Recording" section.
3. When saving a project in the Designer, outdated screenshots are now automatically deleted from the project's Images folder.
4. The "Mouse Click" blocks now allow specifying modifier keys: Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Space.
5. When creating a Data Table on the "Variables" panel, you can immediately specify different data types for each column at the stage of setting initial values and the table structure.
6. When using the "Get Cell Value" or "Get Data from Range" blocks in the "Excel" palette, you can specify a previously declared variable with the required data type in the output property for automatic data type conversion from the source Excel table. This also applies to the data table for the "Get Data from Range" block.
7. In the email attachment saving blocks, a Regex filter has been added for filtering file names.
8. In the "Get Data from Range" block, the ability to use range templates has been introduced, for example: A1:\*, A1:B\*, A1:\*2 (retrieving data from a specified cell to the last filled row/column in the table).
9. For the Yandex Cloud recognition service (Yandex Vision/OCR), the "Robot Settings" window now allows specifying the credentials of your own Yandex account. If no credentials are provided, working with Yandex Cloud is still possible — a demo credit will be used, which is automatically granted to every new Sherpa RPA user. Once the demo credit is exhausted or when transitioning from development to commercial use of the robot, you must switch to paid Yandex Cloud usage and fill in the corresponding settings.
10. The robot now supports extended and multi-purpose logging using the NLog library. You can change the configuration and specify log recipients in the nlog.config.xml file, which is located in the robot's settings folder: C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Sherpa RPA Data\Setting. Using this feature allows for automatic redirection of robot logs to dozens of external systems — from the local Event Viewer of the operating system to cloud monitoring tools.

The version update is performed by installing over the previous one, and all settings are preserved.


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