Better and more consistent IF THEN logic

[David_Gabler]

This is development-side AI. In fact, Glide had a similar feature when I started using it several years ago – it has since been deprecated because it really didn’t stand the test of time. It would generate a simple database and UI based on the “type” of App you wanted, but you still had to put serious effort into the design afterward. Templates proved to be a much better solution.

[Rien_Dumore]

@Jeff_Hager

• Custom actions allow a little more flexibility for all AND or OR logic combined with ELSE logic, but there is no way to combine AND’s and OR’s in the same condition check, so you have to build out several ELSE conditions so it can fall into the correct slot to fire off the correct actions. Sometimes you are building the same set of actions because you want A AND B to fire an action ELSE you want C AND D to fire the same action. Right now you have to duplicate the set of actions.

Try using the one of the AI columns. Explain your rules as clearly as possible and then frustrate on why it doesn’t work 5% of the time, use a lot of updates, and let it consume 50x or more computing power then a coded advanced if then else column.

This is an option that could work pretty well, if you don’t care about the above.

[Jeff_Hager]

Hehe, I hear ya. It doesn’t feel very efficient to employ the use of massive server farms to do the same thing a pocket calculator could handle. Especially for something that is not always 100% accurate. I feel like AI gets overused a lot for very simple tasks that could be done with a simple coded solution.

Javascript is a reasonable alternative for more complex logic, except that the implementation in Glide does not handle the passing of variable types very well and you’re restricted to 3 parameters. Should be a lot more than that.

I think IF logic on Glide needs a major overhaul, especially when I see so many posts about how confusing it is for people when they want to throw anything mildly complex at it.