Reorder Action Steps in a Workflow - When will this be possible?

[jord8on]

It looks like this is a common question and request:

(1) How to move (or reorder) a task in a Workflow | Pabbly Support

How to move (or reorder) a task in a Workflow

Hi there, I have been struggling to work out how to move or reorder a task within the workflow. I have already created the workflow and need to modify it so that I could add a router somewhere in between the workflow. Now given that router can only be added in the end, I will need to somehow...

forum.pabbly.com

(1) Rearrange Steps | Pabbly Support

Rearrange Steps

hi, can you reorder or rearrange the steps in the Pabbly Connect?

forum.pabbly.com

(1) Move part of workflow and / or reorder elements | Pabbly Support

Move part of workflow and / or reorder elements

Hello, since I've created some really complex nodes, is there any way to move part of the nodes without recreating them from scratch? Another question How can I reorganize the management order within a route window, so as to assign the new priority directives?

forum.pabbly.com

(1) How to move (or reorder) a task in a Workflow | Pabbly Support

How to move (or reorder) a task in a Workflow

Hi there, I have been struggling to work out how to move or reorder a task within the workflow. I have already created the workflow and need to modify it so that I could add a router somewhere in between the workflow. Now given that router can only be added in the end, I will need to somehow...

forum.pabbly.com

Also note a couple existing feature requests:

When inserting a router in the middle of a flow have Pabbly automatically move the preceding steps into the first route | Pabbly Connect

Having to re-write flows from scratch is a pain in Pabbly Connect. When inserting a router in the middle of a flow and then having Pabbly automatically move the preceding steps into the first route would avoid this massive time waste of having to rewrite all steps again.See this example/use...

pabbly.hellonext.co

Click and Slide Actions | Pabbly Connect

Being able to move Actions up and down in a workflow with a click and slide

pabbly.hellonext.co

These previous queries do not consider the other users who have probably had the same question and ultimately read one of these threads and found out that Pabbly Connect does not allow us to reorder or rearrange steps... so they just moved on.

I'm guessing this is a heavy lift, to add a feature like this?

Any chance it's on the radar or roadmap?

I think the best case for this is what @Vijesh noted, here:

"...is it possible to just move the task nodes between steps? The reason I ask is that one goes through creating the complete flow and then finds out that one of the tasks is in the wrong order and it means deleting and recreating the flow again..."

I've had to do this... and in a complex workflow, this is VERY VERY time consuming... vs. the alternative, which is what everyone is requesting... to give us some drag handles or something, and allow us to simply move an action step from one part of the workflow to another.

I'd love to have some additional input from the Pabbly team to see if this is something we can hope to see in the future.

 

[PabblyMember4]

Hey @jord8on

Thanks for putting all the threads for this question. Currently, we don't have any plans to introduce any feature to reorder the action steps within the workflow. However, we will keep you updated if our technical team finds any solution and introduce this feature in the future.

 

[jord8on]

Hey @jord8on

Thanks for putting all the threads for this question. Currently, we don't have any plans to introduce any feature to reorder the action steps within the workflow. However, we will keep you updated if our technical team finds any solution and introduce this feature in the future.

Thank you for the quick follow-up, and transparency. While I'm sad this isn't a priority, I'm sure you have bigger fish to fry. I guess we'll just have to be more deliberate and "get it right the first time"