Simplify automations (kind of.. I don't know)

[Daniel_Turner]

I appreciate how generalized the new automations are - you can do A LOT with the new structure of bots, events, processes, steps, tasks, actions. Truly designed by software engineers

However, sometimes it feels like Russian Doll. Let’s say you just want to change the value of a of column in a row when it is first added. You have to create a bot, that calls a process, which has a step, that calls a task, that calls an action. And you have to give each one a name! It can be awkward and clumsy.

Maybe if there was some kind of way to create simple bots that didn’t have the Russian Doll effect. I don’t know…that might be really hard to support along with normal bots.

Maybe we just have to get over the learning curve…it’s just a lot for simple bots and it is difficult to keep track of all the names.

[Steve]

Editor improvements to Automation Announcements

Wanted to share a quick update. We have been working on a series of editor improvements for Automation which will: Enhance the authoring experience Introduce new constructs (eg: data action steps, loops, wait with timeouts) & Make it easy to build bots with local and reusable components. We are incorporating feedback from the community and believe that these changes will address some of the core issues you folks are currently facing. We plan to roll these new enhancements in the following wee…

Introducing Action Steps AppSheet Automation

As continuation of the announcement made earlier we are excited to introduce some new additions to Automation: Change Data step Run action on rows action Grouped action action New Step: The “Change Data” step simplifies the bot authoring experience by allowing data actions to be used with a process as a first class step instead of being a sub-category of “Run a task” step. (See the attached screen shots that show the before and the new design. Composite Actions: “Run action on rows” (als…

[Daniel_Turner]

awesome!