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It would be great to be able to "select all" when deactivating workflows in a sheet. I create templates and archive sheets and if I forget to uncheck the box then I have to go and manually deactivate each workflow.
Hi, I have several sheets with more than 20 automations running on each. There are many times I want to update the sheet without triggering certain automations and it would be far easier to be able to activate and deactivate ALL with just one click, could this be a feature added at the top of the Automations page? It wastes a lot of time turning them off and on individually. Does anyone else agree? Thanks.
We have hundreds of project sheets created and archived every year and when archiving, we have a process of turning off all automation workflows so that they are not triggered once the project is completed.
Some of the sheets have +10 automations on them. It would be great if there was a toggle button that would turn off all automations with one click rather than toggling each automation off individually.
Would be nice as projects get closed, we could turn off all automations within the projects folder in one toggle than heading into each asset to deactivate.
It would be great to provide an option to remove all workflows on a given sheet instead of having to click through each workflow. Alternatively, when a workflow is deactivated, the admin will be allowed to delete columns even though there is a deactivated workflow in place. The pop up should stay but an admin or owner should have the option for more efficiency.
We collaborate with a lot of people. Not uncommon to see 30+ automations. Working on large projects, we make changes to log sheets for time to time when the need arises. These changes will often trigger many automations. It would be very helpful to pause all automations, make sheet changes, then reactivate the automations.
A pause feature would be great. It is a pain point to go in an edit all automations to inactive when making changes. Especially for those of us that sometimes forget to turn them back active.
I have sheet s with 10 or more flows, would be nice to enable/disable them all at once for data migration or fixes needed.
I totally agree with this suggestion. Turning off all automations en masse would be really helpful and a great time saver.
Create an option by which all workflow automations can be deactivated or activated as a group instead of having to do them individually. Or create a check box for each automation and be able to select a group of automations to activate/deactive as a group.
It would be nice to be able to take an action on all, or multiple, workflows at the same time. If you have a sheet with 20+ workflows tied to it and you have a need to deactivate the workflows (data migration), it can be a pain to deactivate each workflow and then activate them all.
Yes, please and thank you, Esprenger. I have certain Sheets with many Automations and have been waiting for this feature.
It would be beneficial to have an option to bulk activate or deactivate automations. Often, I need to turn off all automations to make manual updates, but currently, this requires clicking through each automation individually to activate or deactivate them.
would be great if there is in automation a button that you could deactivate all in 1 go. now when i'm making updated to the sheet for a new season, i need to de-activate all 1 by 1, and once update done back on. and for 50 automations feel silly.
I'm a power user that builds workspace solutions for others. That means, when I build templates, I need to build them with hundreds of automations scattered across many sheets, for each project.
Automations cause a large amount of issues when importing data into a template initially, since oftentimes, the automation is designed to trigger each time data changes, which leads to hundreds or thousands of notifications each time a new template is activated.
It would be amazing to have a pause/toggle for automations that activates all of them at once; additionally a "suppress notifications" button for a particular workspace, so that certain projects can be muted rather than having to change the automation itself to stop email notifications.
100% need this. At one point I had like 60+ automations. Frustrating.
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