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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