Found two more while testing today:
Great work so far, can’t wait to see Activepieces grow further and get better and better!
I just noticed that the overall “crampedness” of the interface is reduced significantly by zooming out the UI to 80-90%. It’s not perfect, but now that I’ve noticed it I can’t unsee the fact that most elements just seem a little too big for the available screen real estate.
Here’s a comparison, though I’d recommend trying it yourself:
80% is a huge improvement for my combination of screen and eyes, though occasionally some pieces of text can become a little hard to read.
Something that need more attention it to improve online documentation for the input format of some value.
A good example if Google Sheet insert multi-row. I spent ~30minute to figure out the proper format for the input values. Proviving a very small sample of data inline would be helpful.
e.g.:
Hello there @Konrod, could you please check the scrollbars now and tell me if they are better the way they are now ? They should be using your default OS scrollbars now since your screen is small.
Hi. I checked it out. Everything works well, it’s convenient, there are no errors. Thank you.
I was just creating a flow when I ran into this “issue” which I thought fitted this thread.
Using the “Date Helper” piece (which works wonders, by the way) I put in “+ 12 hours” as “Add/ Subtract Time”, which didn’t work since it has to be “+ 12 hour”. It took me a few seconds to figure it out, but I guess it would be a quick fix to have it accept “hours” too.
I think that we need some improved visibility and functionality for replaying the runs.
Currently we can see the status of the runs here: https://cloud.activepieces.com/runs which is great. On that page we can also choose to re-run them which is cool.
But there are a couple of problems on this page.
First, we can’t see why something errored (column). In order to see that we have to go into the run. But once we are in the run, we can’t request to have it try again. To do that we have to go back out to the main list. That process is clunky and time consuming. Especially when you have thousands of runs happening and errors that pop up.
Solutions:
The issues tab is nice, but we can’t export a report, re-run anything nor really do much other than what we could already do by using the existing filters. It seems like a feature that doesn’t really serve much purpose as is.
I’d also love to be able to set up some error notification rules as well as rules on how to handle X number of errors. For example, send me an email if the same run errors out X times and automatically turn it off after Y times.
In general I love this system and I plan to build around it, but the last thing making me scared about going to production is the slow processing speed a lot of times. I know it’s on your radar but +1 for making AP much faster.
I really like AP, and it comes along more and more month to month, but I have to agree with the original graphic. There are little oversights and things that do not work well at almost every turn. I often find myself starting a piece, because all of the components seem to be there, only to find, after hours and hours of trying, that it just will not work like I expected/needed it to work.
A GREAT example of this is file handling (on any level). There is another post on here, but essentially it is impossible to do anything with files, and it is hard to tell if it is a bug, user error, or not how its supposed to be used to start with… and that is a recurring issue at many steps, especially with complex pieces (again, although it has greatly improved).
Here is a piece of flow that illustrates what I mean. The right side shows different results than the left side. The reason KIND of makes sense. But it is impossible to troubleshoot because of the difference, and it just doesnt work regardless of what is tried. There appears to be NO way to obtain a link to a Drive file, that can be used. So another option would be to create a Google Doc, but there is no way to share a Google Doc… and just around and around. Wasted about 10 hours of my life today trying to figure this out.
what I am attempting to do:
Google Drive parent folder drop down doesnt work. Just spins and spins. Thought it was my massive GD, but tried one that was empty except for one folder, and still doesnt work… It is always things like that.
Hi , i have the same problem here but it happens only with the ‘‘Massive’’ account, if i point a Google Drive account test with only 5 folders it works fine. Unfutunately the account that i want link with the flow is 2 Tera , did you find a workaround ?Thanks
I believe that ActivePieces is a hugely beneficial app for me, for improvements my wishlist is as follows:
Yes same - need this fixed too.
