Automations being phased out?!
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!...
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MarkShnier__You
Qrew Legend
Qrew LegendI 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.
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
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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.
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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Mark Shnier (YQC)
Quick Base Solution Provider
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- To follow up on the webinar that Mark mentioned we are hosting two upcoming webinars on Pipelines to help users interested in them build up their knowledge. On July 8th we have The Future of Automating Workflow with Quickbase hosted by Adam Hoover and Bree Mackey from our teams and it walks through the future of automating with Pipelines and they will be walking through the migration tool and taking questions/feedback. On July 15th there is also a session on Leveraging Quickbase Pipelines to Automate Procurement Processes where Phillip Dennis, of Watkyn, a Quickbase Silver Partner, and Jorge Abadia, Customer Adoption Manager at Quickbase are goin to share how Quickbase Pipelines can help automate business processes to improve supply chain management.
We wanted to make the announcement well ahead of the dates where we would be restricting the ability to create new Automations so that users who would be impacted have time to learn more about Pipelines and begin to make the transition. Beyond the migration tool we are going to be rolling out guides to some of the common use cases in Automations and how to build them in Pipelines so as users go to build new workflows they will have steps to help them walk through it. Feedback on ways we can make Pipelines more accessible to users and pain points they are experiencing today are very important as we begin this transition as it will help us to continue to provide resources and drive changes in Pipelines.
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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
Quickbase
------------------------------- Evan,
If they can implement a Pipeline action that is a table to table import, that would be HUGE. Bare minimum, clear instructions on how to use Pipelines and perform a table to table import.
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Mike Tamoush
------------------------------- MarkShnier__YouIt would be nice if they did plan to support T2T imports in the tool..
If that does not happen, then a T2T import can be run by an API. That means running a Webhook step.
Here are my cheat notes how to run any Quickbase API. This is an example for API_RunImport.
Webhook.
Make Request
a bunch of the top fields are left blank
URL like
https://mycompany .quickbase.com/db/bqxxxxx
Method
POST
(more)
Content Type
Application/XML
(strangely, the Body is entered next but when saved comes back in the sequence below)
Headers (list)
Name
QUICKBASE-ACTION
Value
API_RunImport
Body
<qdbapi>
<usertoken>bxv4tx_wve_dtkc6xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</usertoken>
<id>10</id>
</qdbapi>
(in this example I'm running the sales T2T import #10. You can see the ID# in the URL
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Mark Shnier (YQC)
Quick Base Solution Provider
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mark.shnier@gmail.com
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