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Automations being phased out?!

  • June 22, 2021
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With the recent email informing us that automations will be phased out over 6 months, the first person who has daisy chained automations and tries the tool to migrate those....let me know if it works! :)

This caught me off guard, considering they have been reassuring us automations were not going anywhere.

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Mike Tamoush
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    I have not had time to successfully test as yet, but I can tell you that the conversion tool that they have does not handle all the nuances of what Automations.  I believe that  will be working intensively over the next 6 months on improvements to the migration tool to be able to Auto Migrate the vast majority (but probably not) all the functionality of Automations.

    I see that there is a webinar scheduled which I plan to attend to demonstrate the automation tool and that would be a great opportunity to put into the chat a question as to the roadmap for expanding the scope of the types of automations which can be Auto Migrated converted into pipelines.  

    For example I tried to do a test on one today which involve deleting records and it came back and said that the conversion tool currently does not have the ability to create a pipeline which deletes records. So obviously they will do that and it would be good to know the roadmap timeline for when these additional Auto Migrate features will likely come in.
    We do have 18 months to get all the automations converted over into pipelines so having that road map the timing of these enhancements will give us some idea of which ones just to leave for a few months until the enhancements in the conversion tool come along and which to maybe tackle now if there is no plan to handle that feature in the conversion tool.

    I do know that they did not take this decision lightly and they feel that the technology platform that supports Pipelines is so much more reliable and scalable to that of Automations, that it in fact is in the best interests of the users, even though there will be some short term pain to get from here to there. 




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    • IvanWeiss
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    • June 23, 2021
    I have to say I was really disappointed to see this.  I knew at some point it was going to happen but I GREATLY prefer automations to Pipelines for Quick base to quick base functionality and simple things.  The interface is just so much easier and faster.  Plus pipelines does not support a lot of functionality yet.

    On top of all of that, I still have a lot of work to do to get the javascript out of my app and now this is another one I need to work on.  As a "citizen developer" where this is not my full time job it is frustrating to stop new development so I can rework functioning parts due to features being removed.  

    I am all for pushing the platform further but it seems like we have half baked tools (the migration tool failed on the first 6 migrations I tried) and not a full functioning system in pipelines and we are eliminating proven automations.

    Just my rant as this is very frustrating to me.

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    Ivan Weiss
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