New to Fusion Integrations/Automations

[Srinija_N]

I have experience in Adobe Workfront, now I am interested in learning Workfront Fusion.

Please provide any guidelines or hierarchy concept documents to start with.

Thanks in advance!

[Sven-iX · Accepted solution]

Hi Nils, 

Fusion is actually very simple. The challenge is 

• concocting the right filters (in branches, searches, webhooks) and
• data manipulation with the limited toolset. 

I would start with the Adobe documentation/trainings. Booklearning won't get you far: you have to begin playing with it. 

Off the top of my head, some best practices

• map out the flow in Mural or similar first. Helps not "coding" yourself in a corner
• rename all your modules
• use filters to describe the path (after a router)
• API explorer is your friend: https://developersupport.workfront.com/page-api-explorer.html
• Read all about text-mode because most of it applies to the API/Fusion
• try and leverage getting collections/references, eg. instead of 
  
  • get projects > iterator > get milestones
    you can do 
  • get projects with their milestones
• instead of chaining setVariable modules, use setMultipleVariables
• Know you can copy/paste a module into a text editor - it's just JSON; sometimes nice for editing - you just paste it back in (caveat this WILL change your module number but sometimes it saves time)
• Use the DevTools (briefcase icon) to see the actual API calls being made by modules. This helps if you need to use a customAPI call when the prefab module is insufficient
• Try to minimize variable setting in an iterator loop (I've seen a case of 1800 iterations setting 12 variables - slow!)
• Try to do all the lookups early in the scenario and reference them later
• Try to have a "settings" variable (setMultiVars) early where you set URLs, IDs etc - avoid hardcoding them in modules

And most of all - have fun! 

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[Srinija_N]

Thank you so much @Sven-iX 

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