📄 Strato 2025-20

Strato 2025-20

The 2025-20 release delivers key enhancements that improve performance, security, and usability across the Strato platform.

A major highlight of this release is the preview of Employee Actions in People Hub (Alpha), which gives users an early look at how they will be able to generate documents and run Workflows directly from the employee list view. This update unifies document generation, Workflow execution, and access management into one seamless experience in the Strato New Experience (V2).

Several key features have also been upgraded from Alpha to Beta versions, including enhancements to Strato Document Generation and the Strato New Experience, such as People Hub, the redesigned Strato Homepage, and Strato Document Management. These Beta releases bring greater reliability, performance, and feature completeness, setting the stage for continued expansion.

Advanced Search in Strato New Experience gains expanded operator support for more precise filtering.

Administrators benefit from the new Dual-Mode Authentication option in the Strato Admin Tool, enabling both Basic and OAuth authentication modes for Strato API requests.

Lastly, to help users prepare for upcoming changes, the Datasource Field property type in Properties Manager V1 now displays a clear warning indicating its upcoming deprecation.

Together, these updates strengthen consistency, security, and ease of use across Strato, laying the groundwork for a smarter, more connected experience.

💡 Previous Release Version
To know more about the contents of the previous release version, read: Strato 2025-19

🗓️ Release Calendar
Stay informed about our release schedule: Strato 2025 Release Calendar

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See all of these new features and enhancements documented in detail below:

New Features


Strato Document Generation


New Feature - Employee Actions in People Hub (Alpha)

The Alpha version of Employee Actions in People Hub is now available for preview. This introduces the ability for users to generate documents and run Workflows directly from the employee list view. Admin users can control which users can perform these actions using policies and custom filters, ensuring users only see templates and Workflows relevant to their role or target population.




Enhancements


Strato Platform


Moving Upgrade Center Features from Alpha to Beta


The following features have been moved from Alpha to Beta version, bringing improvements in security, performance, and functionality:

  • New Design - People Hub
  • New Design - Strato Homepage
  • New Feature - Authorization Framework
  • New Feature - Authorization Framework integration with Configurations
  • New Feature - Authorization Framework integration with People Hub
  • New Feature - Authorization Framework integration with Storage
  • New Feature - Ask Strato – Contextual Help Assistant
  • Security Enhancement - oAuth enablement for SMTP services

Beta versions have most of their technical features completed, but some parts may still be undergoing active development. To learn more, read Upgrade Center.

Datasource Field Property Type To Be Deprecated Soon


To inform users about the upcoming deprecation of the Datasource Field property type in the Strato New Experience, the Properties Manager in Strato V1 now displays a clear warning wherever this type appears. When creating or viewing properties, the Datasource Field option is shown with a warning icon and the label “Discontinued soon.” Existing Datasource Field properties will remain visible and continue to function as expected until the deprecation.

Moving forward, users are advised to create file properties based on their actual data type instead. For example, using a Plain Text property for the Business Unit, or a Date file property for an employee’s Start Date. In the Strato New Experience, properties can be mapped to SuccessFactors fields through Categories or through Rules (in a future version).

More Search Operators Available in Advanced Search


Advanced Search in Strato New Experience now supports more operators depending on the data type, giving users more granular control over their search criteria.
Dual-Mode Authentication


Administrators can now enable Basic and OAuth authentication modes at the same time in the Strato Admin Tool. This allows users to authenticate API requests using either method, provided that they select the correct authorization type for their request (Basic for Basic authentication, and OAuth for Bearer authentication).



Strato Document Management


Moving Upgrade Center Features from Alpha to Beta


The following features have been moved from Alpha to Beta version, bringing improvements in security, performance, and functionality:

  • New Design - Strato Document Management
  • New Feature - Storage Deck
  • Speed Improvement - OpenSearch Indexing

Beta versions have most of their technical features completed, but some parts may still be undergoing active development. To learn more, read Upgrade Center.



Strato Document Generation


Moving Upgrade Center Features from Alpha to Beta


The following features have been moved from Alpha to Beta version, bringing improvements in security, performance, and functionality:

  • New Feature - Mark Required Fields in Forms
  • New Feature - Allow Default Values in Dropdown List Form Fields
  • New Feature - File Name Customization in Call External Services Output
  • New Feature - Dynamic Mapping of User Group Recipient in User Decision Step
  • New Feature - Retrieval of Pending Data for Higher Duties / Temporary Assignment
  • New Feature - Use OAuth with JWT Assertion on Web Service Client for Docusign
  • New Feature - Handling of Multiple Employment in Field Data Retrieval
  • Security Enhancement - Restore Visibility Settings in Documents
  • Speed Improvement - SuccessFactors Trigger
  • Compliance - Enable Download in Preview prior to User Action

Beta versions have most of their technical features completed, but some parts may still be undergoing active development. To learn more, read Upgrade Center.



Other Updates and Corrections Delivered


Strato Platform


Saving Fails When Attaching Key Field to Sub-Catalog Field in Templates

[Component: Field Settings]


Saving email or document templates failed when a key field was linked to a field from a sub-catalog. This happened because the field’s relationship information was not being properly reused, causing the system to lose the necessary connection during saving. The logic has been corrected so that relationship data is now properly retained, allowing templates to save successfully.

Missing Employee Records in Report Card Output

[Component: Dashboard]


Some employee records were not appearing in Report Card outputs due to a timing issue between data caching and report generation. The job scheduling has been updated to ensure that cached data is refreshed before reports are generated, and a new tracking mechanism was added to prevent future data being skipped.



Strato Document Generation


JSEvaluator JSON Response Formatting

[Component: Workflows]


An issue was identified where the JSEvaluator used in executing Workflows was unable to properly format certain JSON responses, causing errors. This has been fixed by updating the JSEvaluator logic to correctly handle and return multi-level JSON responses as text when the “Result-As-Object” header toggle is set to “true”. This ensures that Workflows that rely on the JSEvaluator for complex JSON conversions or evaluations will now process successfully without generating errors.