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We’ve added the Items Metadata interface to most of our designs so we can have a better understanding of who in our team is editing the data, where issues are occuring and then be able to supervise/check data and offer training & support where needed.
Only, we’ve run into a problem with a number of our workflows where we use them at the end of tasks to change various statuses (eg marking as complete) and other parameters such as in the future, computations to calculate time taken to do activities.
Therefore, when we query the data everything was last edited by alloybot. Is there a way for alloybot to not be recognised and show the last non-bot edit?
Hi! I've added this idea to our backlog. Our engineering team will investigate what we can do to achieve this and any updates will be reflected here.
Thanks!
Just to follow up on this, we have managed to botch something like this onto our more important designs. We have added a new text attribute called "Last Edited (FRM Staff)". Then on a workflow, when updates are made, it checks who the alloy built-in "Last edited by" attribute and if matches "alloybot" then nothing happens but otherwise, it takes the "Last edited by" and inserts that into the "Last Edited (FRM Staff)" attribute.
It is clunky, it does mean that the workflow gets into a bit of a cycle at times to update the "last edited time & person" then recheck if it's the right user and re-edit it but it works.