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indimo
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast
Status: New Ideas

In automations I use scripts to make external api calls. These api calls may occasionally fail due to rate limiting / network issues etc..

I would love the option to automatically retry an automation step if it fails, preferably configurable like retry max 3 times with exponential backoff

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ScottWorld
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

Great idea! Airtable lets you manually retry, but it doesnโ€™t automatically retry. I would love to see it give us the ability to automatically retry.

In the meantime, until Airtable implements this, you may want to shift your automations to Makeโ€™s advanced automations for Airtable, which gives you many different options for automatically retrying failed automations.

If youโ€™ve never used Make before, Iโ€™ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread.

For example, here is how you would instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable.

I also give live demonstrations of how to use Make in many of my Airtable podcast appearances here.

โ€” ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant