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#1

Hello,

Could I please request a couple of additions to the roadmap for future development (unless I’ve missed the existing functionality of course):

  1. Error handling, such that errors on actions can be captured and handled more easily.
  2. Adding an action that runs user defined code e.g. to performs actions on datasets

Thanks

#2

Hello Paul,

This is already on the roadmap for v5. Every group will be able to have a shadow workflow which will be invoked when an action in a specific table in the group, or any action in the group, fails.

Can you please elaborate on that one? How would you envision it?

#3

Dmitry thanks for the quick response. great news on the error handling - when is v5 due for release?

Re the the “code” action, what I mean is an action into which you can write some form of script (VB, R, Python or whatever), that performs a task not already covered by built-in actions. I’m thinking something similar to a SSIS Script Task: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/control-flow/script-task?view=sql-server-ver15#:~:text=The%20Script%20task%20provides%20code,using%20multiple%20tasks%20and%20transformations.

I appreciate this might be a pretty hefty thing to implement, but just curious on your thoughts on feasibility?

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#4

Actually, where is the roadmap published? I searched earlier but only found an old one?

#5

We already support embedded PowerShell scripting. Scripts can receive data from EasyMorph, and EasyMorph can capture the output of a script. See this tutorial article: PowerShell scripting

Our short-term roadmap is published on the download page: https://easymorph.com/download.html

#6

Dmitry, thank you that’s very useful

#7

Hi Pauls,

I support your request. I know EasyMorph is a graphical ETL-tool and I know that powershell scripting is supported but for data manipulation that fall outside the scope of the actions I think support for R/python would be a nice feature. Some other ETL-tools also support this.

Some more flexibility in some actions would be interesting as well like run an action based on a condition. Now we can only skip all actions in a table after the skip actions action. It would be nice if we could do this at the level of an individual action as well.

Other improvements: be able to perform operations on a bunch of columns without the explicit use of iterations or unpivoting. Be able to upload download actions from e.g. sharepoint, S3 using wildcards, etc.

Kind regards
Nikolaas

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