For packs that authenticate with other services, the connected account is shown in the formula editor as the first parameter to the formula, with an auto-generated documentation description like:
The [pack name] account used to pull in this data.
This is nice, but in my case the pack name does not exactly correspond to the name of the underlying service. For example, if your pack was a Todoist spinoff pack named “Todoist Shortcuts”, you would want the documentation for the connected account to read: “The Todoist account used to pull in this data.” and not “The Todoist Shortcuts account used to pull in this data.”.
Is there an existing way to specify this in the pack editor? Could not find any indication of there being one in the docs or reference.
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Yes, unfortunately that text, or more specifically the account provider’s name, isn’t configurable today. I do see how that would be needed though for Packs that use more descriptive or specific names. I’ll raise this issue with the team, and thanks for flagging.
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Hi I just want to bump this one.
I am using the standard ‘CodaApiHeaderBearerToken authentication’ that looks like this
However, when someone goes to install the pack or use the formula it says:
In this case there is no such this as ‘[Pack name] account used to pull in this data’.
The provided sentence is confusing for the user who just needs a free coda API key, which coda then automatically creates for them. Given how user friendly the authentication process is, it is shame to scare off users with this fixed description.
Yep, that makes total sense. I’ll pass this along to the engineer team.