Econdoc wrote:Under Maintenance, I find 11 Triggers, 25 Conditions, and 109 Actions. All my flows are enabled. What are these objects?
I am afraid that by deleting them, I will either mess up my existing flows or remove something that I really want to keep. How should I proceed?
Thanks
Those are the corpses of the fallen ones.
I am too poetic.
Automagic create a new element name every time you make one. If you don't use them or delete them from the flow, those element didn't get deleted immediately, just like in other automation app. Instead it will still appear on the list choice when creating new element, with the tag "used 0 times". And it will appear in the
recycle bin (Maintenance).
Any element which is not used in any flow will appear here. This is the last chance you can recover accidentally deleted elements. If you delete them from here, they are gone forever.
But after a while, you must have deleted a lot of things. You should come here and cleanup sometimes. The safest way to delete them is to uncheck all, and see if any elements that you don't use anymore. Those are safe to delete. Elements with easy configuration are the safest one to delete, such as time trigger, app task running, execute flow or etc. But for script, control ui, expression; or any elements that require heavy configuration; just ignore them first. There are probably some code you accidentally deleted and forgot it. You may found it here. (I was saved several times by this). After you double check that your flow has used the correct version of the script, control ui or any duplicated element, then remove any unused elements. If you are really confident about your flow, you can safely delete everything here and all of your flow will still working properly. Because only the unused ones will shown up here. (I still suggest you double check first).
You should really clean it up sometimes. Since it will pile up quickly. And the long list will make recovering proper elements more difficult. I tend to keep mine clean, only left 1 or 2 unused elements (which I doubt or the flow is still in editing progress).