Automation bot "Automation failed" -- Which automation?!?!?!?!

Sometimes I get notifications from Automation Bot, telling me

An automation failed to run. Check the automation for errors and try again.

Which automation? And how am I supposed to know which automation? I have 28 active automations, and clicking through them to find the one that failed is just too difficult. Is there a better way? Or, Coda, can you please make these notifications include the name of the automation?

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:wave: again @silviana_amethyst

after the notification error comes up in my general notification bar, i click on the doc. Then i go to the automations section of the doc and the automation/s that failed have a red bubble ! next to them. No requirement to click on each one to see which failed?

Cheers!
Mel

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Thank you @Melanie_Teh :wavy_dash:

I appreciate your suggestion. I just got a notification that an automation failed. I clicked on the notification. It brought me to a page in my Coda Docs, this does not help. I clicked the gear and opened the automations. There are no red exclamations. So, unfortunately that didn’t help.

Why didn’t I get a red exclamation? Is it because I clicked on the notification before opening the automations menu? Or something else?

It would really help if the engineers would just write the name of the automation into the notification…

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OMG this is so infuriating, and it didn’t used to be like this :angry:

One sorta workaround is that if you have email notifications turned on for doc status updates (see image) then you seemingly do get an email when an automation fails and in that email it tells you which one

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:waving_hand: @silviana_amethyst

agreed re: name of automation on notification message.

just trying to help troubleshoot - If you were able to find them (and if not, please implement
@Bell_Arden 's cool tip on which ones) - are they the same automations that keep on failing? also what type of automations are they?

i think why mine has the red ! bubble is because the pack isnt installed LOL

would be interesting to note which ones type of automations have red ! bubbles and which dont.

Cheers!
Mel

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:waving_hand:t2: @silviana_amethyst and @Bell_Arden and for future readers of this post,

I noticed a few days ago, there is now details of which automation (i.e. name of automation) has failed in the Notification area.

Thank you @Emma_Wyatt for opening up this thread for me so i can report it :slightly_smiling_face:

Cheers!
Mel

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Indeed, the new update completely solves the problem. Thanks!

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