add ability to trigger synchronous automation from button action

packages/builder/src/components/automation/AutomationBuilder/FlowChart/ActionModal.svelte

@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@
     }
     return acc
   }, {})
-  console.log(plugins)
 
   const selectAction = action => {
     actionVal = action

packages/builder/src/components/automation/AutomationBuilder/FlowChart/FlowItem.svelte

@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
         {#if !isTrigger}
           <div>
             <div class="block-options">
-              {#if !loopBlock}
+              {#if block?.canLoop}
                 <ActionButton on:click={() => addLooping()} icon="Reuse">
                   Add Looping
                 </ActionButton>

packages/builder/src/components/design/settings/controls/ButtonActionEditor/ButtonActionDrawer.svelte

@@ -126,8 +126,7 @@
   }
 
   const getAllBindings = (bindings, eventContextBindings, actions) => {
-    let allBindings = eventContextBindings.concat(bindings)
+    let allBindings = []
-
     if (!actions) {
       return []
     }
@@ -145,14 +144,37 @@
       .forEach(action => {
         // Check we have a binding for this action, and generate one if not
         const stateBinding = makeStateBinding(action.parameters.key)
-        const hasKey = allBindings.some(binding => {
+        const hasKey = bindings.some(binding => {
           return binding.runtimeBinding === stateBinding.runtimeBinding
         })
         if (!hasKey) {
-          allBindings.push(stateBinding)
+          bindings.push(stateBinding)
         }
       })
 
+    // Get which indexes are asynchronous automations as we want to filter them out from the bindings
+    const asynchronousAutomationIndexes = actions
+      .map((action, index) => {
+        if (
+          action[EVENT_TYPE_KEY] === "Trigger Automation" &&
+          !action.parameters?.synchronous
+        ) {
+          return index
+        }
+      })
+      .filter(index => index !== undefined)
+
+    // Based on the above, filter out the asynchronous automations from the bindings
+    if (asynchronousAutomationIndexes) {
+      allBindings = eventContextBindings
+        .filter((binding, index) => {
+          return !asynchronousAutomationIndexes.includes(index)
+        })
+        .concat(bindings)
+    } else {
+      allBindings = eventContextBindings.concat(bindings)
+    }
+
     return allBindings
   }
 </script>

packages/builder/src/components/design/settings/controls/ButtonActionEditor/actions/TriggerAutomation.svelte

@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 <script>
-  import { Select, Label, Input, Checkbox } from "@budibase/bbui"
+  import { Select, Label, Input, Checkbox, Icon } from "@budibase/bbui"
   import { automationStore } from "builderStore"
   import SaveFields from "./SaveFields.svelte"
   import { TriggerStepID } from "constants/backend/automations"
+  import { AutomationActionStepId } from "../../../../../../../../types/src/documents"
 
   export let parameters = {}
   export let bindings = []
 
+  let synchronous = parameters.synchronous
+
   const AUTOMATION_STATUS = {
     NEW: "new",
     EXISTING: "existing",
@@ -16,6 +19,11 @@
     ? AUTOMATION_STATUS.EXISTING
     : AUTOMATION_STATUS.NEW
 
+  $: {
+    if (automationStatus === AUTOMATION_STATUS.NEW) {
+      synchronous = false
+    }
+  }
   $: automations = $automationStore.automations
     .filter(a => a.definition.trigger?.stepId === TriggerStepID.APP)
     .map(automation => {
@@ -23,10 +31,15 @@
         automation.definition.trigger.inputs.fields || {}
       ).map(([name, type]) => ({ name, type }))
 
+      let hasCollectBlock = automation.definition.steps.some(
+        step => step.stepId === AutomationActionStepId.COLLECT
+      )
+
       return {
         name: automation.name,
         _id: automation._id,
         schema,
+        synchronous: hasCollectBlock,
       }
     })
   $: hasAutomations = automations && automations.length > 0
@@ -57,6 +70,15 @@
     parameters.fields = {}
     parameters.automationId = automations[0]?._id
   }
+
+  const onChange = value => {
+    let automationId = value.detail
+    synchronous = automations.find(
+      automation => automation._id === automationId
+    ).synchronous
+    parameters.automationId = automationId
+    parameters.synchronous = synchronous
+  }
 </script>
 
 <div class="root">
@@ -85,6 +107,7 @@
 
     {#if automationStatus === AUTOMATION_STATUS.EXISTING}
       <Select
+        on:change={onChange}
         bind:value={parameters.automationId}
         placeholder="Choose automation"
         options={automations}
@@ -98,6 +121,19 @@
       />
     {/if}
 
+    {#if synchronous}
+      <Label small />
+
+      <div class="synchronous-info">
+        <Icon name="Info" />
+        <div>
+          <i
+            >This automation will run synchronously due to the existence of a
+            Collect block</i
+          >
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    {/if}
     <Label small />
     <Checkbox
       text="Do not display default notification"
@@ -142,6 +178,11 @@
     align-items: center;
   }
 
+  .synchronous-info {
+    display: flex;
+    gap: var(--spacing-s);
+  }
+
   .fields {
     margin-top: var(--spacing-l);
     display: grid;

packages/builder/src/components/design/settings/controls/ButtonActionEditor/manifest.json

@@ -57,7 +57,13 @@
     {
       "name": "Trigger Automation",
       "type": "application",
-      "component": "TriggerAutomation"
+      "component": "TriggerAutomation",
+      "context": [
+        {
+          "label": "Automation Result",
+          "value": "result"
+        }
+      ]
     },
     {
       "name": "Update Field Value",

packages/client/src/utils/buttonActions.js

@@ -122,15 +122,24 @@ const deleteRowHandler = async action => {
 }
 
 const triggerAutomationHandler = async action => {
-  const { fields, notificationOverride } = action.parameters
+  const { fields, notificationOverride, synchronous } = action.parameters
   if (fields) {
     try {
-      await API.triggerAutomation({
+      if (synchronous) {
-        automationId: action.parameters.automationId,
+        const result = await API.triggerSynchronousAutomation({
-        fields,
+          automationId: action.parameters.automationId,
-      })
+          fields,
-      if (!notificationOverride) {
+        })
-        notificationStore.actions.success("Automation triggered")
+        console.log(typeof result)
+        return { result }
+      } else {
+        await API.triggerAutomation({
+          automationId: action.parameters.automationId,
+          fields,
+        })
+        if (!notificationOverride) {
+          notificationStore.actions.success("Automation triggered")
+        }
       }
     } catch (error) {
       // Abort next actions
@@ -138,7 +147,6 @@ const triggerAutomationHandler = async action => {
     }
   }
 }
-
 const navigationHandler = action => {
   const { url, peek, externalNewTab } = action.parameters
   routeStore.actions.navigate(url, peek, externalNewTab)

packages/frontend-core/src/api/automations.js

@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ export const buildAutomationEndpoints = API => ({
     })
   },
 
+  triggerSynchronousAutomation: async ({ automationId, fields }) => {
+    return await API.post({
+      url: `/api/automations/${automationId}/triggerSynchronous`,
+      body: { fields },
+    })
+  },
+
   /**
    * Tests an automation with data.
    * @param automationId the ID of the automation to test

packages/server/src/api/controllers/automation.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,12 @@ import { MetadataTypes } from "../../constants"
 import { setTestFlag, clearTestFlag } from "../../utilities/redis"
 import { context, cache, events } from "@budibase/backend-core"
 import { automations } from "@budibase/pro"
-import { Automation, BBContext } from "@budibase/types"
+import {
+  Automation,
+  AutomationActionStepId,
+  AutomationResults,
+  BBContext,
+} from "@budibase/types"
 import { getActionDefinitions as actionDefs } from "../../automations/actions"
 
 async function getActionDefinitions() {
@@ -267,6 +272,24 @@ export async function trigger(ctx: BBContext) {
   }
 }
 
+export async function triggerSynchronous(ctx: BBContext) {
+  const db = context.getAppDB()
+  let automation = await db.get(ctx.params.id)
+  const response: AutomationResults = await triggers.externalTrigger(
+    automation,
+    {
+      ...ctx.request.body,
+      appId: ctx.appId,
+    },
+    { getResponses: true }
+  )
+
+  let collectedValue = response.steps.find(
+    step => step.stepId === AutomationActionStepId.COLLECT
+  )
+  ctx.body = collectedValue?.outputs
+}
+
 function prepareTestInput(input: any) {
   // prepare the test parameters
   if (input.id && input.row) {

packages/server/src/api/routes/automation.ts

@@ -73,6 +73,17 @@ router
     ),
     controller.trigger
   )
+  .post(
+    "/api/automations/:id/triggerSynchronous",
+    appInfoMiddleware({ appType: AppType.PROD }),
+    paramResource("id"),
+    authorized(
+      permissions.PermissionType.AUTOMATION,
+      permissions.PermissionLevel.EXECUTE
+    ),
+    controller.triggerSynchronous
+  )
+
   .post(
     "/api/automations/:id/test",
     appInfoMiddleware({ appType: AppType.DEV }),

packages/server/src/automations/actions.ts

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import * as filter from "./steps/filter"
 import * as delay from "./steps/delay"
 import * as queryRow from "./steps/queryRows"
 import * as loop from "./steps/loop"
+import * as collect from "./steps/collect"
 import env from "../environment"
 import {
   AutomationStepSchema,
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ const ACTION_IMPLS: Record<
   DELAY: delay.run,
   FILTER: filter.run,
   QUERY_ROWS: queryRow.run,
+  COLLECT: collect.run,
   // these used to be lowercase step IDs, maintain for backwards compat
   discord: discord.run,
   slack: slack.run,
@@ -59,6 +61,7 @@ export const BUILTIN_ACTION_DEFINITIONS: Record<string, AutomationStepSchema> =
     FILTER: filter.definition,
     QUERY_ROWS: queryRow.definition,
     LOOP: loop.definition,
+    COLLECT: collect.definition,
     // these used to be lowercase step IDs, maintain for backwards compat
     discord: discord.definition,
     slack: slack.definition,

packages/types/src/documents/app/automation.ts

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ export enum AutomationActionStepId {
   FILTER = "FILTER",
   QUERY_ROWS = "QUERY_ROWS",
   LOOP = "LOOP",
+  COLLECT = "COLLECT",
   // these used to be lowercase step IDs, maintain for backwards compat
   discord = "discord",
   slack = "slack",
@@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ export interface AutomationStepSchema {
     outputs: InputOutputBlock
   }
   custom?: boolean
+  canLoop?: boolean
 }
 
 export interface AutomationStep extends AutomationStepSchema {