Hi allโฆ I would really like to play around with some โsample appsโ for โAutomationโ. Iโve been patiently waiting for some of the senior members (or staff) on here to make something public on Automation.
For me, using sample apps are a great way to help understand everything thats going on under the hood!
Sample apps are also a great way to show off โspecial featuresโ, โbest practicesโ & โuse casesโ
Great suggestion!
I havenโt found any value in Automation, just complexity. None of its complexity meets any needs I have. Workflows and reports worked just fine for me.
@Brand-It what did you have in mind?
Well I would like to see it in action in a real life use caseโฆ In my case I have an โOrdersโ app where a customer is chosen, a โSpecification Formโ is completed and a โQuotationโ is automaticially created.
If this Quote is โAcceptedโ then this action automaticially creates a โWork Orderโ which has โTasksโ automaticially assigned to each Department (4 departments).
As the Production teams complete their assigned Tasks, management sees a โliveโ picture of the overall Job Progress.
Some of these Tasks are not assigned until a predecessor has been marked โCompletedโ.
When all the Production Tasks are marked โCompletedโ, an email is sent to the โAdministratorโ asking for a Delivery docked to be printed & given to โDispatchโ.
An email is also sent to Dispatch/Delivery Team informing them of the pending delivery
The Delivery Team then arranges & deliverโs the product to the Address taken from the โSpecification Formโ
So all the information needed to do this comes from the original โSpecification Formโ (& not a โBotโ in sight!).
Basicially I designed this app thinking that I was doing all this โAutomationโโฆ then the actual โAutomationโ came & takes over. So, Iโm thinking my app is now inefficient /old technology & I need to integrate or make good use of the new Automation features. The thing is I donโt know where to startโฆ I was hoping to dig through some sample automation apps to see whatโs possible & what I could/should implement.
For everything youโve described, except the email part at the end, everything would be accomplished through actions; itโs only the email part that would need a bot.
Okay, well thats why Iโd really like to see some sample apps that demonstrate the capabilities of Automation. I cannot come up with an idea for Automation if I havenโt even seen it in action myself!
When someone shares a sample app on Automationโฆ Iโll copy it, study it, think on how I could implement it somewhere into our workflows. Then I copy it & create a new app using my own data. Usually by the time I have all this done I have a good understanding on how everything works together.
I know itโs early days yet butโฆ surely some people must know about the potential advantages in using/ implementing Automationโฆ so lets hear it?
Also the way I see it is that itโs not up to the senior members on here to create sample apps for usโฆ it is the appsheet developers that should take the time and share some sample apps on Automation! Or if they donโt want to do it then, they should work closer with the senior members on here & give them more help & support because the rest of us depend a lot on their help!
Attn @prithpal @Dan_Bahir @praveen
Thanks for bringing this up.
We plan to upgrade the sample apps from using workflows to Bots.
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