Sometimes when I’m building a workflow out, I need to disable certain actions so that I don’t cause inadvertent processes to occur (i.e. exporting data, email actions, API iterations etc.).
What would be really handy is a ‘Dev mode’ which you can toggle on/off, and each action is configured to enable/disable based on if you’re in Dev mode. So, when in Dev mode, the actions above would automatically be disabled.
Not sure if something like this already exists, happy to hear if so.
I agree with this feature proposal but with a little modification:
We need 3 state of the “Dev mode”:
Always on
Off in dev mode
Only in dev mode
The third option is really useful in situation where you need to apply some kind of actions only while debugging. For example: in a API call where usually you don’t send additional filters, while debugging you need to send an additional filter to the API, in that case I use a Modify column action where I set a different method used in the API call, but everytime I need to remember to disable/enable it. An “Only in dev mode” option could help alot enabling some kind of actions that will be enabled only for debug purpose.
The need to remember what was enabled/disabled while investigating a problem is indeed an inconvenience. We will add the ability to temporarily enable/disable actions in version 6.0. A temporarily disabled action will only remain disabled until the project is closed (no matter saved or not).
Similarly, a disabled action can be temporarily enabled until the project is closed.
It won't be a special "debug" mode, but it will make things easier.