Now that the โautomationโ model is being required, I cannot figure out how to just make a simple report. Before, I could just fill out a single form and use a template and the report was ready to go. Now I seem to have to create a โbotโ, then an โeventโ, then โprocessesโ and โtasksโโฆ Which I canโt get to work and they cause errors which crash the whole app, which makes me have to delete the whole thing because I canโt have the app crashing constantly while Iโm trying to build a simple report which should take 5 minutes.
Right now, the issue Iโm having is that it keeps telling me my Bot is not compatible with my Event, which makes no sense to me at all, since thereโs almost nothing to these parts of the puzzle as far as I can tellโฆ Whatโs to be โcompatibleโ (or not)?? My feedback is that this whole thing has needlessly complicated something that was before simple, elegant and powerful.
Any help is greatly appreciated, I was supposed to have this doneโฆ Now.
I should add that there should be a document covering how to translate the knowledge existing authors have on reports and workflows into these new automations that are being required. Iโve searched high and low in Appsheet documentation today and I find precious little about this new stuff thatโs truly helpful.
This often occurs when the Table or โEntityโ that your Events, Process, and/or Task are set to run on are not the same. Please check those.
Hereโs a short โsummaryโ of sorts about how the new Bots relate to old Reports:
Hope this helps.
So, rather unintuitively, if you have a time-based event, if you set the process to any entity, even if it matches the entity of your task, it will crash. The entity of the process has to be set to โnoneโ. Which is nonsensical the way it is presented. So yay, now it doesnโt crash the whole app. But it still doesnโt work. When I click run (as a test run), it processes for awhile, but I get no email. When I click monitor, this is what I see. What does the highlighted error message mean?
No clue what difference it really made, but I removed the process I created, and created a new one within the Bot interface itself (I had worked from right to left Task>Process>Event>Bot before). Now it works. The untitled โnew processโ the bot dialog created and the process I created separately are identical, but the one I made outside the bot dialog wonโt work. Bollocks I say.
The object reference error that you got is normally considered a bug worth contacting Support about. Itโs not supposed to be an error that we can trigger ourselves.
Correct! Please contact support@appsheet.com for help with this.
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