🆕 Bulk follow and unfollow records

[Leo]

Stop getting updates from records you’re done with by using bulk unfollow.
Use bulk follow to start getting updates on all the records you need to know about.

We’ve used the new feature multiple times—it’s a huge time saver, eliminating the need to update records individually.

Thanks again for the fantastic suggestion from the community → Ability to bulk unfollow items
And for voting here → 🗓️ Jan. 25th Live Demo and Q&A webinar for advanced users (Rescheduling) - #4 by Tim

We’ve also added the bulk follow feature. For instance, when someone new joins your team, they can quickly catch up by following many existing tasks right away.

Tip: use unfollow and follow in combination. For example, if a Sales Manager moves to a new sales region, they can easily unfollow leads from their old region and start following leads from the new region.

[CarsonRedCliffLabs]

Thank you! You guys rock!

[1F2Ns]

They are the heroes in this story. I love how response the dev team is

[CarsonRedCliffLabs]

@Leo - is it possible to bulk unfollow records via the API for other or all users within a workspace?

We have run into the following scenario, and I can’t yet find a way to solve it how we would like.

We have an app that is a knowledge-based app with dozens of videos and articles teaching people how to use the system. Each person clicks a button to log a confirmation for that user when they have reviewed that knowledge base record. This means that everyone is a follower of every record in the knowledge base app.
We are now going through and wanting to add some additional fields and tags or labels inside of this app to help with sorting and searching. The most effective way to do this has been manual updates, one record at a time. Unfortunately, that means we can’t set it as a silent update on the record. It means team members are receiving notifications as followers that the records have been changed.

So our hope in this scenario was to find a way that we could trigger an API call that bulk unfollows all records in a given app for all members of a workspace.

Is there an option out there to accomplish this and I just haven’t found it yet?

[Leo]

Hi @CarsonRedCliffLabs,

I can fully understand your use case, it makes a lot of sense that a bulk unfollow via API is important in this scenario!

We didn’t have this endpoint before, but we rolled it out now specifically because it’s a really valuable feature and, in this case, a true low-hanging.

Here is the endpoint together with the documentation.

Record Follow | Tape Developers

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out anytime.

Best regards,
Leo

[CarsonRedCliffLabs]

This is amazing. Thank you!

[ericpapasit]

hi Leo, I tried using HTTP Request block and got success response but no values for total_unfollowed_count and as I checked the app, my user still following an item from that app, can you please show how to do this in Tape’s Automation please

[Jason]

Hi @ericpapasit

const r = await http.put('https://api.tapeapp.com/v1/record/app/unfollow-all/61002',{
    headers:{
        "Authorization": var_key,
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    data: {}
})

console.log(JSON.stringify(r, null, 2));

or:

NOTE: You need to send a request/data part and there is none to send, so just send a blank one: {}