For one particular document I have a lot of automations. It is often difficult to locate the automation required.
A search dialog would assist enormously.
Hey @Nicholas_Keown ,
Isn’t this a matter of proper naming convention? You can name your automations as you see fit - and you you can change those names at any time. Do you have so many automations that proper naming is not good enough?
If you do have a tremendous amount of automations, there might be a lot of automations that are pretty similar. In that case, using CFL (like Switch or SwitchIf) with an automation might allow you “bundle’ a lot of automations.
I am really curious about your situation.
Greetings,
Joost
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I see your objective, and it makes sense, but I also question the nature of the use case. I’ll bet you have a good reason. 
In any case, I have a slightly different issue. There’s no way to filter all documents in your workspace that have automations. This, to me, is far more important if you’re trying to map where everything automated occurs in your potentially vast network of Coda documents.
To overcome this, I use an agent with a browser subagent. It opens all documents in my workspace one by one and creates an index of every document that contains automations by checking its settings. It’s tedious and slow (I let it run overnight). I thought it would use a lot of tokens, but surprisingly, it’s quite efficient.
Once the index is complete, I use Coda MCP to update a Coda table with the newly indexed data. I can also monitor when new automations are created and by whom.
The document in question is a PM and task system developed by me in Coda. It has multiple stakeholders and users. It requires a lot of automations due to the its size and number of features, including a bespoke ticketing system.
It has integrations with Salesforce, Google Sheets, Google Calendar, GMail, other Coda docs (cross-doc & Coda pack) and Slack. It has user preferences and some user access control.
It sends numerous emails to various stakeholders to ensure compliance with SLAs and assist managers with team work completion. It’s a beast.
This is not going to be fixed by renaming and refactoring. What is required is the ability to search/filter the automations to find what is needed for maintenance.
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