This release brings some powerful new automation capabilities alongside a set of improvements that make managing your suppliers, organisation, and product data faster and more flexible.
Flows can now start automatically. A new Trigger stage has been added as the first step of every Flow. Add the Execute a flow on a schedule action and enter a plain-language schedule, such as “run daily at 4am”. The Hive validates your schedule and shows a preview of exactly when it will run, including the local and UTC time. The trigger is disabled by default while you finish building your Flow, and can be enabled once everything is ready.
A new Next stage has been added as the final step of every Flow. Use it to automatically kick off one or more other Flows once the current one completes. This makes it straightforward to build multi-step pipelines without combining everything into a single Flow — for example, running an import Flow and then automatically triggering a share Flow once it finishes.
You can now connect the Hive to your OneDrive or SharePoint account. The OneDrive connector is set up in Settings under Connectors. Once created, you authenticate with your Microsoft account using a standard sign-in, then select which OneDrive or SharePoint folders are available to the connector. The connector can then be used in Flow actions to read from or write to those folders directly.
Two new Flow actions make use of the OneDrive connector. Get product information from OneDrive reads a spreadsheet file from your connected OneDrive folder into the Flow, ready to be mapped and processed. Store product information into OneDrive saves your product data as a file directly into a selected OneDrive or SharePoint folder. Both actions support Excel, CSV, and JSON output formats, and the output filename can be set manually or generated automatically.
A new Store action, Save product information into the Hive on behalf of a trading partner, allows you to process incoming product data and save it into the catalogue attributed to a specific connected trading partner. You select the fields that uniquely identify each record and choose the trading partner the products belong to.
Every change made to a supplier record is now logged automatically. Open any supplier in My Suppliers and click History on the top menu bar to see a timestamped log of every change, including who made it and the Before and After values for each field that was updated.
The New Trading Partner form has been redesigned with a tabbed layout. When creating or editing a supplier, information is now organised across five tabs: Detail, Contacts, Address, Documents, and Images. This gives you a cleaner, more structured way to record everything you know about a trading partner in one place.
A dedicated Fields page is now available under Settings. It lists all fields defined in your organisation, showing the display name, internal name, field type, whether the field is public, and whether it is a system field. A searchable panel on the right lets you browse fields and drag them directly onto a Product Template, making it faster to build and update templates without navigating away.
The Shared Product Approvals list now shows two additional columns: Type of Change, which indicates what kind of change the supplier has made such as an addition or update, and Total Changes, which shows how many fields are affected. Clicking a product name opens a panel showing a field-by-field Before and After breakdown, so you can see exactly what will change before you accept. The filter has also been updated to support filtering by these new columns.
The Filter on the Shared Product Approvals page now includes Type of Change and Total Changes as filterable fields, making it easier to triage large batches of incoming products by focusing on the changes most relevant to you.
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