It would be great to have an option to toggle on/of ALL automations on a board. ie when I want to upload a bulk list of contacts, I turn off all the automations one by one so that I don’t have thousands of automations run in the back end ie name, business etc.
Yes, Yes, and YES! I have wanted this feature forever and have been meaning to put in a FR.
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There are creative workarounds for this, but I agree that the feature you’re requesting would be FAR better. Added my vote!
Just in case you don’t know of any workarounds yet, I figured I’d share one might help. (There are many different ways you could approach this, but the below seems simplest IMO)
You could have a column that you hide from every View—and maybe also hide via column permissions, depending on whether you’re the only one on the board that needs this—called something like “Run Automations?” It’d be a Status column with two options: the default/blank one, which you can rename ‘True’ if you’d like (and which will remain the default value) and other one labeled ‘False’
Then you add a filter to each of your automations (and yes, this would be a huge pain to set up initially—unless, perhaps, you’re using Workflows rather than Automations) which says:
“…and only if [Run Automations?] is [True]”
Then, when you import a big batch of data, you add a corresponding column to the spreadsheet before import—with all of the rows set to “False”. You can map that column into the one in your board when you configure the import. All of those imported items will not pass the automation filters, so those automations won’t run. (Or, if you’re adding a bunch of items manually / not via spreadsheet import, you could briefly set the default value for that column to ‘False’, add all your items, then switch the default value back to True so other non-batch new items continue triggering the automations.)