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Q; in git hub we have a way to report
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Q; in git hub we have a way to report bugs and issues , and feature requests .. / Is there an obvious way place to report things that don’t fall into one of those category.. ?
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I struggle to think of anything .. would need an example Fleshing things out, talk about best way to / how to, Q&A etc..: forum or this Discord channel: Bugs and other issues: GitHub Issues Features / ideas: GitHub Discussions Security: Email
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Note it’s not a criticism . It’s sort of a bunch of notes verbatim from mark drake on linkedin: Two minutes with Umbraco Automate: - No "error state" escapes anywhere. - The while loop has no exit node. How do you wire the next thing to run after the while loop? - Parallel makes sense, until you realize there's no way to return to the main loop again. (Same issue as while.) - Not obvious (I read the docs) how your trigger and actions reveal their "bindings". I discovered that looking at Umbraco Forms Automate package. - Bindings leaves a lot to be desired from a regular user. - The text area isn't going to suffice for HTML emails, even though someone did think about setting a boolean for "this is an HTML email". - No way to audit a "run", see the steps it took, the values that were returned. - Missing OOTB triggers and actions. - No OOTB Zapier or n8n integrations. They serve as a proxy to open up 100s of other integrations automatically. What I do like: - Finally thinking about no-code approaches. - Democratize and empower editors to create their own workflows and automations to aid their unique workflows. (Repeating my first bullet here because it's important.) - You can retry runs! - You can limit which automations users can access/edit, and give them their own workspaces ("playgrounds"). Fundamentally though, what's the intent here? I didn't see an API layer (in C#) to run a specific Automation with a specific context. Is this slated for only specific types of jobs, or do you think people will begin replacing all of their manual workflows? Example: a user submits a "create account" form → kicks off an Automation to create the account → client waits for finalization → logs member in. Is this something I'd expect Umbraco Automate to do in the future? It seems to lack the required underlying API to take advantage of during a synchronous request. Though I'm not the most experienced C# developer, I did take a look around. Nothing stood out. Free thoughts.
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sound like issue tracker material