Advice to unclutter activity feed / hide automation update

Hi all,
I was wondering how do you deal with the mess that can quickly start to pile up when using forms (tally for example) to bypass mobile record editing.

I mean, if you use url parameters, the stored url can become immense. So after any minor update in a field, the url is updated, thus the activity feed starts the messy accumulation. It actually becomes so bad so fast that the activity feed loses its purpose and one can’t easily see anything.

This is just from one simple update to the link, all the blurred is just the link itself:


After reading what I could find, including this by @Tim [DONE] Notification / revision activity for silent workflow automation action blocks - #3 by Tim I am wondering if there is any way to clean or hide or partially hide some automations in the activity feed. To make these not to appear would be almost perfect but this doesn’t seem possible. Also some kind of flag (similar to the silent) but to hide or at the very least “fold” these in order to make these visible but folded by default.

I don’t know what is the best way to deal with this or how do you deal with this but I am open for solutions for this.

Thank you.
R.J.

@R.J

Hi, there are probably others with better solutions I just set mine to sore comments only and only look in activity when I have to.

One thing though would it not be better/easier to create your URL s with a record calculation field rather than an automation that way they are always upto date and it doesn’t go into the activity stream?

Jason

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I too second @Jason 's recommendation to use calculation fields, not only are they laser fast but they don’t clutter up the activity feed. You might also just having a separate app to control updating these URLs so they’re off in another location and then use relationships to fetch them when needed.

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Hi guys,
Thank you very much for your solutions and hints.

The calculation is definitely a way cleaner solution :smiley:

Best,
R.J.

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