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Be able to set to the order of Actions, regardless when created or which branch

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  • February 13, 2023
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andreammelde
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It would be great to be able to set the order of actions, regardless of when it was added or what branch. Sometimes you need to alter action after you created but would want one to run first. Ordering regardless of branch is available in Bionic rules, but you can’t reorder so it would be a nice feature to have moving forward

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  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️
  • February 19, 2023

I STRONGLY second this - the ability to order when Actions trigger is critical!  Right now it appears to simply execute in the order of when the Task was created, so you need to know what actions are intended to happen when before you begin building out the Design.

I have a scenario where I’m alignment Users to Companies and didn’t put an initial “clear all User alignments first” - when I added afterward it ends up using that “clear” Task last, even after I deleted all the Action branches and re-built in the right order.  The only option is to delete the entire sequence and rebuild - not a great option.

Ideally, having an optional “Review/Re-order Actions” would be most helpful.  Even having it the old way (trigger in the order the Actions were created) would help.


anirbandutta
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  • Expert ⭐️
  • March 2, 2023

Converted this Horizon Rules Beta feedback into an Idea.


anirbandutta
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  • March 2, 2023
Updated idea statusAcknowledgedUnder Consideration

  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️
  • November 8, 2023

+1 to this. This was a critical enhancement for bionic rules when they first came out...to not have the same functionality in horizon rules is a huge miss.


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  • Helper ⭐️
  • January 22, 2024

Our use case is for our assignments, we need the action to remove assignments to run first before the action to add. I’ve tried deleting and adding the actions in the order I want them to run but it still does the removes last. My only workaround is to create 2 separate rules and run them in the order needed via a chain.


kstim
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  • August 1, 2024

It’s great that we have the ability to re-order the execution order of rule actions in Horizon rules, but I’d really like the action branches to appear in the execution order we set.

You can see below that the actions are numbered in the order in which they’ll execute from #1 to #14, however looking at the diagram from top down, #7 starts first. It would be nice if this diagram would reflect the order of our action execution starting with action #1 at the very top and moving down from there.