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PIPELINE CAUTION! Renaming fields will break your pipeline!

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Well, I discovered which I believe to be a terrible flaw with Pipelines, though maybe someone here will tell me it is as expected everyone knows this and I am just late to the party.

If you use a field in a Pipeline, and that field is used in a condition, or is used to set another field (ie if you drag and drop that field to set another field equal to in during an update phase), and you change the name of the field, the Pipeline will cease working.

Now, it will not immediately cease working. It will continue to work UNTIL you go into the pipeline and refresh schemas or refresh page. At that point, it will recognize that the field name has changed in the 'fields to use' box, but will not recognize the name change in any of your conditions. Hence, all conditions and uses of that field in the pipeline will no longer work.

I think is is devastating, because I have no idea if I have changed the name of a field and if I ever open that Pipeline again it will break.

I tested in numerous ways to be sure I wasn't mistaken. Just a word of caution to everyone.

Do others think this is of course expected? Or also see this is a huge oversight?

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Mike Tamoush
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    • AustinK
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    • July 16, 2021
    There are a lot of really weird bugs with Pipelines that they need to fix.

    I have had them give an error one day but then appear to recover and keep working. Only to find out a few weeks later that that error was the death knell of that pipeline and it actually quit working on that day but without any subsequent errors. They are just a nightmare to fix once something goes wrong. Usually what seems to cause issues is either refreshing the schema or NOT refreshing the schema at the right times.

    At one point we had many processes in there but have moved the most critical ones to Workato or similar services as those have worked significantly better for us. I feel like we can trust that they will fire and work when they are set to but I do not have the same faith in Pipelines.
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