You keep talking about your very specific quirks. “Not everyone” doesn’t mean anything. Desktops and laptops ship with widescreen because people statistically use them in that way. I already posted this but here.
For everyone in this thread, this just happened:
maybe it’s just me, but the new look is missing ‘return data’ when using custom events. there is a ‘return data from api’ which just returns the workflowID.
When I switch back to the old view, ‘return data’ is an available action. So I switch to the old view, add the ‘return data’ event and then switch back to the new view and it’s now there…but only for the custom event I added it to. It’s still missing from any other custom event I create.
Didn’t like it at all… super confusin. hard to find and hard to read. Go back to horizontal!
Issues found:
- Bug when drag-drop worfklow within folder: the workflow jumps to the Uncategorized folder.
- Folders not ordered alphabetically / lack of folder sorting or ordering feature.
One of my apps has around 600 workflows and 45 folders. It’s a weird choice not to make it alphabetical.
Had a weird bug today with Triggers. It now says I need to give the trigger a name even though it had a name. For those who get this bug, my resolution was just to delete it and not have a trigger for now.
Just noticed that if you disable the new workflow editor and enable it again, the return data action will show up.
I have feedback and a suggestion. @fede.bubble please share with the team.
Thanks! They are actually keeping an eye on this thread so you’re good
The idea of working on a previously started or completed project with this new workflow interface feels overwhelming. It seems like understanding the entire flow will take a considerable amount of time. I was going to use the Unreal Engine as an example, but clearly, others have had the same thought. With Unreal blueprint system, every function’s input and output is clear, the flow is so easy to read and I can zoom in and out to examine the flow at any scale I want. In the new interface, everything feels oversized.
Don’t love the new wf editor:
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A horizontal flow (or at least the option to view it horizontally) makes more sense for a tool with the power that Bubble has. Bubble is comparable with Unreal Engine, not Zapier, as others have pointed out. Only very simple/limited platforms can get away with vertical like this.
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Insanely hard to navigate through workflows in the side bar area if you have thousands of workflows on a page like we do in our app. With the old view you could get a pretty decent 1000ft view by looking at all the squares in a folder. The visible info includes the trigger, the conditions for running, and a customizable name. Now we just have a name unless you click into it, and much of the name is getting cut off in most cases.
I have several workflow folders with 30-50 actions (and a few with more), and most have conditions.
Only offering the vertical left panel doesn’t make any sense, and it’s quite a poor UX. I like the other features, but this part isn’t going to work.
Can we please get a way to click a workflow folder and still see a grid of actions?
I would love something more like this:
P.S. Disregard the details of the image. This is frankensteined together, and it’s not perfect, but I wanted to show the concept of retaining the grid view but still showing an event’s actions in the new way.
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.
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. 
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.
Cross-posting an update from the team: