Iterate web request: live result

Hello,

while using Iterate web request action I see that would be great if we could have the possibility to view the live results, instead of waiting for the execution of all the iteration.

Scenario: I’ve got 10K+ rows, for each one of these I need to execute a web request. At the moment I use the iterate web request action, the only problem is that if I did something wrong (example: I put an error in the method/parameters etc.) I have to wait till the end of the entire execution before know the error. In my last situation I waited 2+ hours to see that every call returned an error due to a misspelled parameter!

Does the “Show preview” panel help?

Hello Mattf,

thanks for the reply, unfourtunately the preview is not so useful in this scenario: you have to imagine that the starting table has got 10K+ rows, in the firsts runs (that are debugging runs) it would be great if we can see the result of each Web call immedately, without waiting the end of the entire execution. Maybe the first 100 records went well and the 101st returns an error, with this new feature I’ll check the execution and I can find the error in early times without waiting for so long!

NB: it would be great if the “show preview” of iterate web request would work like the preview of the new “iterate”, where you can choose the record to be processed

Ah I understand what you mean now Andrea.

Knowing how the engine works makes me think that this might be a tricky thing to implement. Also, the Iterate web request action supports sending parallel requests which would add to the complexity. That said, our dev team have a way of surprising me, so you never know. We’ll make sure it gets fed into the product team like all requests.

Regards
Matt