It works fine but takes a long time – about 2 minutes for this workflow to complete.
Is there any way to use your plugin to build a list more quickly? In other words, to put together multiple numbers (including duplicates) simultaneously, rather than incrementally?
This is a truly terrible idea to do this (whatever it is) as a backend workflow.
@lindsay_knowcode, no dis to you, as your plugin would obviously be useful in backend workflow contexts. But using SSA’s (or indeed any backend workflow) to do stuff that’s easily accomplished in the page (using vanilla Bubble features or element plugins) is always preferable.
Which reminds me: FFS, Bubble, just add return value features to client-side plugin actions already!!!
The 168 values are stored as 168 independent things (versus simply being stored as a list of 168 numbers on a single thing) so that duplicate prices are feasible – and also to enable the math operations that create the 168 values. I did not know a list with duplicate values was possible until finding @lindsay_knowcode’s plugin, but the numbers must still be stored as independent things in order to facilitate their calculation.
So now I’d like to also have these 168 numbers stored in a list, to enable fast retrieval of the current hour’s price.
How can I most quickly combine these 168 separate things (type = number, preserve duplicate values) into a single list of 168 numbers?
Yeah, I don’t understand client-side actions AT ALL. They are clearly designed just (only) for manipulating items in the DOM. How, exactly is this useful?
SSA’s (which can return values to the workflow) are exactly the API that client-side actions should always have had.
And then, when SSA’s appeared, that became the easiest way to get started with plugins. And, so, we find ourselves in this sitch where folks write plugins that do useful things, but do it in the wrong (meaning wildly inefficient) way for things that DO NOT need to run on the server.
(And conversely, Element plugins with Element Actions are not trivial to migrate to SSA’s, so you have lots of useful client-side ELEMENT plugins with interesting Element Actions that nobody [me included] can be bothered to migrate to SSA’s.) Bubble is amazingly accurate when shooting at its own foot. You couldn’t plan it better.
Thats a lot of actions in a workflow! I’m sure we improve that.
