Hi guys. I use “Storage” for variables every day. Been using it for years now.
What surprises me is a basic tool to maintain (ie, clean up) junk variables and their contents in “storage” still hasn’t appeared (at least that I can find, the search for this forum isn’t great!).
For example, there’s been a handful of times I mistyped a variable name while developing years ago, and viola, those variables still reside in storage today. No easy way to just purge them! Instead, every time I pull data from variables in Storage, I loathe seeing those old mistypes there, and for some, I grab the wrong one because they were just one character off from the “right” variable (the one with real data).
So - not only is the junk in Storage annoying, it’s actually causing me problems.
And it appears the only way I can get rid of the content of variables stuck in Storage is to write a zap I’ll run one time. And STILL I do NOT know the Storage command to DELETE entire variables and their contents if I do take the time to write a Zap (and waste Zap runs towards my quota) to do this!
So! Zapier please help us out! How hard would it be to create a simple page linked to from the left sidebar on the Dashboard called “My Zapier Storage: Manage/Clean-up variables”. When you load this page, it shows you:
- each variable currently in Storage (it’s REAL ASCII name, not the cleaned up one: I have variables with and without hyphens (like “CATS-AND-DOGS” and “CATS AND DOGS”) and they both look the same when creating Zap in the pulldown list of variables in Storage),
- it’s current value,
- The last time the variable was read by a Zap (and which Zap read it out), and
- The last time the variable was updated by a Zap (and which Zap updated it)
- an option to “edit variable name”
- an options to “change the variable’s value”, and
- MOST IMPORTANT: a trash can to delete junk variables in one click! :)
That information will. really help us keep a clean house in Storage, and prevent us from grabbing data from the wrong ones later!
If this capability already exists, my apologies and somehow I missed it!
Thanks for consideration, Marc
