Pipeline GUI Issues
I am wondering if anyone else is encountering troubles creating pipelines using the GUI. I spent most of the day yesterday attempting to create a very simple pipeline that is triggered by a date cha...
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Hi Community members - Thanks for the feedback here, we appreciate the frustration you're voicing and really want to improve your experience. For those of you who I don't know yet, my name is John Karas and I'm a Group Product Manager here at Quickbase. I lead our a team of Product Managers that are driving Quickbase's integration & automation product strategy. One of the critical pieces to this is our Pipelines capabilities.
Paul, Joel, Mike, Austin, and Mark, you've really shed some light on issues that we are eager to address for you and the rest of our community on the Pipelines front. We have a sleek new look & feel coming to the "Pipelines GUI" (we call it "Pipelines Builder", the area where you create and edit your Pipeline details) and we'll be unveiling more at Empower 2022 on this. I strongly believe this will help in your GUI performance pains / loading aspects. Another thing I felt here was a better desire for Error Handling / Messages. This is something we have on our radar, and we will be bring some benefits into the new Pipelines Builder. However, I think there is more work we can do on the error handling / messaging front as well beyond the areas we've got active development occurring on. I also felt pain here around not being able to re-order / insert / move steps. This new Pipelines Builder is designed to enable this exact functionality. The feedback on field-name changes, step & error reporting, and additional experience improvements are all valid and my team is indeed looking at how we can tackle them.
Your feedback helps us continuously prioritize & reprioritze what things we build & deliver to make our customers jobs & lives easier. As with anything in software (or in life), we know there are bright spots and there are areas that need more attention. We hope you'll continue using this powerful platform as we continue to use your feedback to make it more delightful. I hope to see many of your Empower, and would be happy to spend some more time together catching up & hearing more of your thoughts.
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John Karas
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Paul, Joel, Mike, Austin, and Mark, you've really shed some light on issues that we are eager to address for you and the rest of our community on the Pipelines front. We have a sleek new look & feel coming to the "Pipelines GUI" (we call it "Pipelines Builder", the area where you create and edit your Pipeline details) and we'll be unveiling more at Empower 2022 on this. I strongly believe this will help in your GUI performance pains / loading aspects. Another thing I felt here was a better desire for Error Handling / Messages. This is something we have on our radar, and we will be bring some benefits into the new Pipelines Builder. However, I think there is more work we can do on the error handling / messaging front as well beyond the areas we've got active development occurring on. I also felt pain here around not being able to re-order / insert / move steps. This new Pipelines Builder is designed to enable this exact functionality. The feedback on field-name changes, step & error reporting, and additional experience improvements are all valid and my team is indeed looking at how we can tackle them.
Your feedback helps us continuously prioritize & reprioritze what things we build & deliver to make our customers jobs & lives easier. As with anything in software (or in life), we know there are bright spots and there are areas that need more attention. We hope you'll continue using this powerful platform as we continue to use your feedback to make it more delightful. I hope to see many of your Empower, and would be happy to spend some more time together catching up & hearing more of your thoughts.
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John Karas
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John,
I'm glad to hear that you are working on some of the more major issues. The 2 things I would hope you would seriously consider:
1. Loading the list of pipelines is painfully slow. Once I transfer my automations, i will likely have 200+ pipelines. Even with the 70ish I have now, I can't load the Pipelines Dashboard in less than a couple minutes (my current solution is to filter by tags and then bookmark each tag). Every time i search for a Pipeline, and clear the search - another couple minutes just waiting for load.
2. Please extend the deadline for when you remove automations, until the Pipeline platform is up to speed. It does not make sense to force the change before Pipelines is ready.
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Mike Tamoush
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I'm glad to hear that you are working on some of the more major issues. The 2 things I would hope you would seriously consider:
1. Loading the list of pipelines is painfully slow. Once I transfer my automations, i will likely have 200+ pipelines. Even with the 70ish I have now, I can't load the Pipelines Dashboard in less than a couple minutes (my current solution is to filter by tags and then bookmark each tag). Every time i search for a Pipeline, and clear the search - another couple minutes just waiting for load.
2. Please extend the deadline for when you remove automations, until the Pipeline platform is up to speed. It does not make sense to force the change before Pipelines is ready.
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Mike Tamoush
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