What does "Enable rapid update" with automations actually mean?

[Peter]

What does “Enable rapid update” with automations actually mean?

[tim.young]

This is very similar to updating equations behind the scenes with 1 small change.

What does “Update equations behind the scenes” actually mean?

Hey @Peter When creating or updating a record, the option to update equations behind the scenes means that any equations will be sent to a queue for processing. This is beneficial when you value speed of the creation/edit over immediate access to equations being calculated. Here’s an example using a Form Component. Normal Processing Field A = 5 Field B = 5 Field C is an equation that adds A + B. This equation needs to be calculated and seen right away. The Form Component will show until the…

During the normal process for automations, records + equations are processed one record at a time.

Rapid update will update all records first, then process equations for the entire table, splitting the normal process into 2 batches.

[avromiRussell]

Is there documentation on the rapid update?

In my use case - I’ve built a soft upload feature.

I’m using an “on demand” task to create a bunch of new records in the main table and delete them from the soft uploads table.

In the main table I run table rules, to get the record ID (would be solved if we could access recordID in roll-up @moe ) - it seems that if rapid update is enabled it only runs the table rules on the last record.