Tips, Tricks and Usability Features

We like Engine, and we want you to enjoy your time spent automating with it. There are many small things that Engine does to enable you to navigate complexity more easily.

Below, you will find a list of usability features that you might or might not have known about. And as always: if you're missing something that would make your life easier get in touch with us at info@cloudomation.com.

Hotkeys

Global hotkeys

Keys	Description
CTRL + S	Save content. Works whenever you see the save button.
CTRL + E	Quick search. Jump into the Engine search bar.
CTRL + M	Navigate to the Execution Live Monitor.

Editor hotkeys

Keys	Description
ESC	Exit fullscreen mode.
CTRL + SPACE	Toggle intellisense suggestion details.

Editor

• Linting, Code Completion & Intellisense

  Check for stylistic and programmatic errors in your scripts . Offers autocompletion (including flow_api methods).

• Breakpoints & Step through

  Execute your scripts line-by-line for easier debugging.

• Script Visualisation

  Understand scripts without reading through code.

Connection Analysis & Test

A freely available bundle that you can download. Read the documentation here.

• Analysis

  Gather information about external systems e.g. get the schema of a database, get the OpenAPI specification of an endpoint etc.

• Test

  Check if a connection to an external system can be established.

User Interface

Feature	Description	Icon
Create webhook	Set up a webhook for a flow directly from the flow view.
Create schedule	Set up a schedule for a flow directly from the flow view. Available after installing the Scheduling bundle
Latest executions	Find executions of a flow, schedule or other resource directly from its view.
Duplicate resource	Create a resource based on another resource. E.g. if you're creating many similar flows, you can create a template, duplicate it and adjust the details.

Search

Enhance your search with special characters. Applies to the quick search as well as to the advanced search.

Character	Description	Example
no special character	Included for comparison.	Search term: my flow Finds: my tmp flow 10 my flow 10 my flow 11 my flow 20 Doesn't find: my connector 10
"" (double quotation marks)	Exact search.	Search term: "my flow" Finds: my flow 10 my flow 11 my flow 20 Doesn't find: my tmp flow 10 my connector 10
_ (underscore)	Wildcard for exactly 1 character. Use it in combination with exact search.	Search term: "my flow _0" Finds: my flow 10 my flow 20 Doesn't find: my tmp flow 10 my flow 11 my connector 10
% (percentage sign)	Wildcard for 0 or more characters. Use it in combination with exact search.	Search term: "my % 10" Finds: my flow 10 my tmp flow 10 my connector 10 Doesn't find: my flow 20 my flow 11

Workspace control

You can fine tune the behaviour of your workspace by adjusting the workspace settings. Here are some highlights to give you an idea of what you can achieve.

• Scheduling

  Change the minimum time delay between scheduler executions of a schedule. The default value makes sure that the system isn't overloaded by faulty schedule configuration. Set lower to enable rapidly recurring schedules (e.g. every 5 seconds).

• Trash

  Configure the expiry of items in the trash. Set lower to save storage. Set higher to keep items longer.

• Execution processing

  Should you want to completely stop processing in your workspace, you can do so with a dedicated workspace setting. This can act as a fail-safe if stopping executions via other means (e.g. execution live monitor) is not viable. Read more here.