Tip of the Week: Find where it’s used

About to change an Send email Action node, and wondering how many places you have used that particular Action node? Appfarm Create can tell you in one right-click.

Find usage lists every place a UI component or action node is used, with a link straight to each one. Search the app, service or flow you’re in, or the whole solution.

How to

  1. Right-click a UI component in the UI components library pane, or an action node in the Action nodes pane.
  2. Choose Find usage of … in this app (or in this Service or in this Flow) to search where you are.
  3. Or choose Find usage of … to search the whole solution.
  4. Click a result to jump straight to it.

When it’s useful Before changing something that’s used in many places: every Map, every Table, every Send Email or Web Request. It’s also a quick way to get to know an app you’ve taken over, by seeing which components and nodes it actually uses.

Good to know

  • The first option searches only where you are. The second covers every app, service and flow in the solution.
  • It starts from the library panes: the UI components library pane for UI components, and the Action nodes pane for action nodes.

Read more: Find usage – Appfarm Docs

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