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darkknight
Expert ⭐️
May 7, 2018
New Idea

Rules Engine: Make Advanced Scheduler more user friendly

  • May 7, 2018
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Having the ability to schedule rules to run more frequently is awesome.  Love that ability.

It would be great, though, for this to be more user friendly and intuitive.  Not everyone has experience with Cron, (I do from my linux admin days but my teammates don't).  Could a front end be put on this so that the end user doesn't have to understand/figure out the Cron format? 

I know in your documentation you do have a link to a cron expression builder...but would be great if the tool did this for you.

Bonus points for making Advanced Scheduler available on Rule Chains. (I think that idea is elsewhere in Community)

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    sarahmiracle
    VIP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    October 7, 2021

    Chiming in here. From Pulse Everywhere 2021, CS Ops and the mentorship of CS Ops professionals is a focus for Gainsight. I spoke directly with Nick recently and he asked me what could be done to decrease the barriers to entry for new GS admins. I think this is a wonderful example of something that is unnecessarily overly complicated and is expressed more clearly and intuitively in other areas of the software. While the support documentation is very helpful and directly linked from the page in the software, I believe there is a better approach.

    As a new GS admin, I would love to see advanced scheduling rules engine reflect the UI of data designer & connectors to schedule rules to run more frequently than daily instead of requiring a CRON expression. Happy to provide further context! Thank you!

    Customer Success Systems Admin @ Amplitude, 3x Gainsight CS Ops Product Council Member
    darkknight
    Expert ⭐️
    October 7, 2021

    Also an example of an opportunity to move away from an “it works” design mindset to a design philosophy that includes Usability, Flexibility, Consistency, Quality, Efficiency and Scalability.  Particularly Usability and Consistency in this case.

    I’ve discussed similar with Nick and various GS Product team representatives over the years.  It’s frankly been hit or miss on whether or not it resonates. We need to move beyond just making the platform work...make it work for us.

    Jeff Kirkpatrick