i have multiple set columns in a custom actions. But it seems that many times there are not performed in a sequence… especially when submitting a form? in a custom action flow, is the 2nd action performed after the first one is completed? for example. set column 1: sets current date time stamp …

As far as I’m aware, there is no guarantee that actions will be performed in sequence, so you cannot depend on or expect that to happen. (Actually, maybe a better way to put that is there is no guarantee that they will finish in sequence). I’m not aware that it’s ever been explained how a multi-step…

Thank you Darren as usual for the helpful advise and information. Maybe I didn’t explain my example clearly. I have a log that tracks every action being done by users (staff members) of a delivery service. Lets say item A that is to be picked up from source the custom action would be: update ite…

I’m guessing that the reason your history column needs to be a (basic) text column is because you need the data in your Google sheet? If that’s the case, I’m not sure that there is a good answer. In situations like this, I’ll often delegate some of the work to Integromat. That is, trigger a webhook…

I don’t really need the history in the google sheet. but since the items are in a google sheet, I had to add a column for the action history for each item. if you consider it in strings. I want to create String A. Then Put String A + B in a temp String TEMP. Then put String TEMP back into Strin…

yeah, I get it. I don’t think you can depend on that to work all of the time, so what you are seeing is probably expected. I just created a demo to mimic the scenario you described, and it seems to work okay (even if I click really fast). But I don’t think I’d trust it… Just to describ…

Yes its working fine like 99% of the time when the actions are triggered by a button. But for some weird reason, when the actions are triggered by a form successful submission things tend to get weird. I will try to record a video and share.

Is the form adding a new row, or editing an existing row? If an add row, then my guess would be that because the add row takes longer, subsequent actions are kicking in before it’s finished. But I’m just guessing, I don’t know any of this for a fact.

this is still very very frustrating for me. I am still facing the same issue. I want to track user actions on the app. users are staff and actions for example can be such as : Driver A picked up Item at DateTime i have 3 columns that track user actions column 1: LATEST Action Column column 2:…

i guess its not the custom actions … there is a problem with using template columns in Glide in custom actions. to simplify things. imagine this table text column 1 text column 2 template column 3 (1+2) text column 4 Hello Name Hello Name - if we create a custom action that looks like …

Sorry, I don’t get something… Why do you need the column 4 since you have it in column 3?

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I see that you started another thread, so I’ll respond there.

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