Our company runs a lot of docs that each contain many automations. Many of these automations are connected to external platforms (GCal, Gmail, Twilio, Zapier, etc). We will periodically make backup copies of our docs to store historical data while keeping our working copy lighter, cleaner, etc.
When I make these backups, I don’t want the automations to continue running. Some of these are performing external actions that will result in duplicate actions with the original doc. So for now, every time I make a backup, I have to open the automations panel and click through to turn off each individual automation. It would be fantastic to click a “master” automations on/off button at the top of the panel to save me this headache.
Excellent suggestion, thanks for sharing and explaining the specific scenario with making backups - makes a lot of sense. I’ve added this to a list of improvements we’d like to make.
I was so perplexed as to why my server was getting more and more traffic overtime…
Of course it’s each backup doc that’s still running, I’ve been effectively DOS:ing myself without realizing
Like Tyler said, it takes a lot of time to manually disable everything
Disable one automation at a time
Disconnect doc from pack account in Login - Coda, or, if auth isn’t required:
Find every sync table and set to manual, one at a time
My proposed solution
Give us access to manually pause a doc, the same functionality that happens automatically after 2 weeks of inactivity (pics)
We’ve just added the ability to turn off all automations in a doc! Just like turning off automations individually, rules that are owned by a particular user can only be turned off by the owner. When you try to turn off all, if there are any rules you don’t have access to edit, you’ll be notified and all other rules will be flipped off.
Check out our the full announcement on our latest automation improvements here!
Max