Deactivation Option for Webhooks in Calc Fields (by App or by Field)

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The fact that calculation fields in Tape produce webhooks is super awesome, because not only can you build automations based on the changing of a calculation field, but this also produces developer webhooks when integrating with external systems.

In the normal course of operations, this is great, but when doing imports or large data updates, or adding new calc fields to existing large data sets, the idea that hundreds if not thousands of webhooks could hit custom servers suddenly is less than ideal.

Would it be possible to either have a field level option for calc fields that allowed the admin to activate or deactivate webhooks, or to have the same option in the app that would apply to all calc fields in that app?

Thanks!

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There’s another aspect of this that’s super important, I haven’t been able to complete a full test yet, but this is what I suspect to be the case. If anyone out there is using developer webhooks and has more information to add, that would be great but in the meantime, I will try to test this out fully over the weekend.

As per my comment above, calculation fields produce webhooks. The other day, I was playing around with a dashboard app based on one of my apps that have webhooks instead. I created a report widget for this app, played around with it for a bit, and then deleted it. Later on, I realized that I had hit the API rate limit for this app. Items in this app were being updated when I had not done anything to them at all. After more investigation, when I tried to inspect the revision history, I saw the following message:

{
	"status_code": 404,
	"endpoint": "/v1/record/107923835/revision/previous/4",
	"error_code": "not_found",
	"error_message": "getFieldsByIdsOrFail: Fields with IDs 481779 not found!"
}

I haven’t been able to confirm yet, but what I believe is the case is that the Dashboarding tool is actually creating calculation fields within that app for its own purposes. And as we have determined, calculation fields produce webhooks.

(EDIT: I’m most likely wrong here, this was my initial gut reaction, please ignore my comments regarding calcs)

There really should be some way to shut this off, otherwise, anyone wishing to build an integration on top of Tape with apps that are using Dashboards are going to be constantly overwhelmed with hooks.

Again, if anyone can add more right now, that would be awesome, otherwise I just need to do some testing at a time when the system is relatively quiet.

@Tim

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Andrew, I can’t add much other than I agree that the calculation fields trigger a record updated hook, which means if you add a calc field to a large app, it will all go wrong. However, I can’t get it to trigger via a Dashboard maybe I’m setting it up differently.

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I’m just trying to figure out why a bunch of records produced webhooks suddenly the other night, still trying to ensure I understand the behaviours of the system. I thought it might have been the result of creating a Dashboard app and then deleting it, but I’m most likely wrong on that. It’s just funny the revision history states a field was deleted and I didn’t think I made any changes but I might be crazy. I’ll keep searching, every day is a new adventure when you’re testing new cool stuff. :slight_smile:

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