The Scripting Block offers a number of asynchronous functions for collecting input from the user. To date, all the example scripts I’ve seen use these APIs one at a time in a sequential fashion, e.g. const name = await input.textAsync('What is your name?');
const birthplace = await input.textAsync('Where were you born?'); This pattern is serviceable, but it produces an unideal user experience: users are led on a forced march through one question at a time. That can be disorienting when folks run a script for the first time, and that’s particularly apparent when more input is required. Given that the APIs all return Promises, I expected to be able to compose them in parallel and prompt the user for all input simultaneously, e.g. const [name, birthplace] = await Promise.all([
input.textAsync('What is your name?'),
input.textAsync('Where were you born?')
]); That would show users the full extent of the required input “up-front” and offer them the freedom to provide it in a sequence of their choosing. In the Scripting Block today, the second code example does not function as intended. the UI is initially rendered according to the use case (both input fields are present) entering data into either field causes a “spinner” animation to be appended to the document (somewhat confusing, but not entirely disruptive) entering data into the second field causes an error to be displayed, e.g. ERROR
R: userInputStartTime
at main on line 30
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