New Workflow tab - Discussion Megathread

georgecollier · 2024-11-08T08:05:15.426Z

samnichols:

We have well over 1,000 on one of our main pages.

randomanon · 2024-11-08T10:37:23.802Z

Hey, congrats, looks like you found a purpose for the vertical view! It actually makes sense in this context (but narrower, obviously).

On a separate note you should probably look into using more backend workflows and custom events, 1000 workflows is insane.

asked111 · 2024-11-08T12:30:51.047Z

Certainly feels like many of us realising a hybrid approach is probably what is required here - with the ‘overview’ aspect of the original design, with the ‘flowchart’ of the new one. To have this implemented neatly & efficiently would be awesome.

rjwilkinson10 · 2024-11-10T12:48:52.872Z

How about making it so this scrollbar is actually clickable? It continually shows the “resize” cursor. This is bad UX.

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Great work on everything else and I’m looking forward to future improvements branching etc.

mghatiya · 2024-11-13T07:09:12.283Z

In the new workflow editor one good feature is ability to find instances of where an API workflow or custom event has been triggered from. It has been an idea on the ideaboard and I have been needing it for long (idea1, idea2)

Can that feature come on the current workflow editor itself too?

If that feature is there in main editor, for me the new workflow editor can remain in beta and keep getting iterated upon for very long time without much issues.

fede.bubble · 2024-11-13T19:31:25.741Z

Cross-posting an update from the team:

[New Feature] New Workflow Tab in Beta New features

Happy Wednesday, Bubblers!! I’m Zoe, an Engineering Manager at Bubble, and I wanted to share some more updates the team has made to the Beta experience! We’ve just shipped an update to simplify navigation between triggering actions and triggered workflows! You’ll now find a Back button in the toolbar next to the workflow name (see screenshot). This lets you easily return to the previous workflow in a chain of triggered workflows, making it smoother to navigate through chained workflows. [pr…

login · 2024-11-18T06:39:07.594Z

Great hybrid example you made.

What we need as well. Obviously with search / filter and look and feel improvements to the left folder pane.

The folder view could collapse into the new list view.

However, this approach would still be sub-par to the other big ones out there.

It should be a fully integrated “one-view”, rather than panes and boxes.

Bubble Team, you need to approach this as experienced UX designers with a focus on flow work and efficiency, rather than table thinking engineers from the 90ies.

It’s too “programmatic” like an engineer had the final word here, rather than the UXer

There are plenty of great examples out there.

Please do multiple editor UX examples for bubblers to test out.

Eg 2-3 usable samples made in figma or just a couple of rough versions in bubble itself to test out. A pro-bubbler used to the old editor, could do that in a couple of weeks at most.

… Living by bubbles own MVP / iteration qualities

asked111 · 2024-11-19T17:47:23.763Z

it would take a day max to mock up a decent editor design using bubble. Maybe even a few hours.

It’s quite frustrating as a UX orientated person watching them take sooooooo long to do anything or fix small things, but I get that there’s a lot more behind the scenes and we don’t know everything that’s going on.

Still, bubble/figma mockups with community input (even allowing us to alter the mockups) would be a nice thing indeed. After all it’s us who will end up living on those screens.

sudsy · 2024-11-19T19:16:39.513Z

asked111:

it would take a day max to mock up a decent editor design using bubble.

FWIW, that’s how this screen recording was created. It’s a mock editor built in Bubble. It took the better part of an evening, and it doesn’t access the DB, which would have actually made it easier to implement some of the behavior. (I had my reasons for wanting to use static data.)

adzbiz11 · 2024-11-20T15:35:02.930Z

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Hi,

I tried the new version of workflows again, it’s really hard to navigate, why not keep the format with squares and colors, it’s so much more intuitive?

What would really change the game are condition groups with parentheses (if this and that) OR (if this and that) that works, and the ability to directly execute Javascript without having to use a plugin.

adzbiz11 · 2024-11-20T15:36:41.462Z

I 100% agree with you.

blazej1 · 2024-11-21T16:32:01.757Z

Being able to natively return the result of JS code to a bubble element would certainly be a welcome improvment.

chad5 · 2024-11-30T21:15:05.256Z

Or access backend custom workflows from front end….

jacob2 · 2024-12-05T13:45:03.656Z

I wish when adding a workflow to a folder that it would automatically scroll to the workflow again. Right now the work flow youre working on disappears and you have to scroll to find it

asked111 · 2024-12-06T11:13:27.954Z

The whole “Notes / Commenting” aspect of bubble.io workflows need to be greatly improved as well, and should be a primary part of this new design.

ihsanzainal84 · 2024-12-06T15:07:48.176Z

Pretty sure you can click on the workflow event itself (in the WF editor) and the tree will autoscroll.

jacob2 · 2024-12-07T04:04:20.573Z

Yeah, but when you click add new workflow and then add that new workflow to a folder it doesnt autoscroll to where it just moved that new workflow.

farouk.zemmouri · 2024-12-08T16:23:55.210Z

is it possible to increase the size of the folder name, it has the same font size as the actions, so it is bit confusing…

lois.laput · 2024-12-13T01:12:59.978Z

Change workflow colors like this

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farouk.zemmouri · 2025-03-19T21:47:50.567Z

The zoom button, Niiiice

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