Hey Everyone.
I’m trying to diagnose an issue with my app, where I have a backend workflow that is designed to repeat itself a certain number of times (typically about 40 times but it can vary) in order to create a series of things. - The issue I’m having is that it seems to be stopping at a certain point every time I run it, and not completing the full number of cycles.
My question is:
Does bubble limit the number of times a workflow can repeat? If yes, are there any strategies to ensure that my workflow completes all of the required items and doesn’t stop until its designed to.
Maxed out capacity, either schedule them further apart, or if your Workload Usage allows for it switch to the new plan/pricing structure where there is no capacity but a certain amount of usage per month is allowed before overage charges (we have like 16 months to switch no matter what)
Yeah I’m trying to avoid switching to the new plans because the whole WU thing is going to literally bankrupt us. Just this one sequence is over 1000 WU credits. - Crap, so I’m kinda screwed? I guess I need to rework this entire flow to use less capacity??
I mean if you have to get by for now see if you can schedule them more apart? Capacity is like a speed limit so you will have to run the whole thing over a longer period of time. But either way you would need to figure it out eventually since we all have to leave capacity in a year…
1000 WUs for one loop? Or 1000 WUs for the whole thing? I guess find what’s using up so much?
Thank you all. - Yeah, I guess thats my only option for now. I’ll try @tylerboodman & @icaroalmeida idea with the 5 second day.
As for WU’s - 1000 WU is for the whole loop of creating 40 things, it’s actually probably closer to 1400 WU once I factor in the API calls.
But yeah, I honestly have no idea what I’ll do next October when they shut off the legacy plans. Most likely it’ll be the end of my company, we don’t have the resources to rebuild the whole thing on another platform. And we’ll be out of money in a matter of months with that type of WU burn. So yeah, feeling pretty betrayed by Bubble. Maybe @emmanuel will come up with some other way to look at their pricing by then but I’m not holding my breath.
Sure it’s the Data API built into your Bubble app, more specifically the Bulk Create endpoint you would want to use. Think of it like a uber-efficient Create a list of things action. Data API requests - Bubble Docs
You make basically make the POST request to your own app using the API connector. There should be a few tutorials here on the forum with the setup but the Bubble docs are pretty good now.
The body of the POST request you will make by taking your list of objects (from an API call?) and turning them into JSON objects using the :formatted as text operator
If you made 40 things with it it probably wouldn’t even register on the capacity graph
It’s an endpoint for your own Bubble app, so Bubble essentially tells Bubble to make multiple things at once (they really need a Create a list of things action…)
Hey Tyler, do you mind expanding on how you specifically bulk create items? I’m easily able to setup the data API to create 1 thing but how do you bulk create 100 items? Couldn’t find anything in the forum for this specific thing and I think it could help a lot of people. Thanks!
Also not sure if the video mentions it but I recommend you do the JSON safe operator after each text field
{“field1”:This thing's field1:formatted as JSON safe,“field2”:This thing's field2:formatted as JSON safe}
That will include the quotes on each side so don’t put those, it will automatically encode/replace characters that break JSON formatting like line breaks, quotes, etc.
(A problem for the future)