topic Re: Connector - Primary/Secondary in Workato Pros Discussion Board

Connector - Primary/Secondary

gordonhuworkato — Mon, 03 May 2021 23:08:55 GMT

Hello folks,

Does anyone face the limitation of primary/secondary connector (count = 2)

For example: if we have 3 or more slack workspaces, HTTP connections that we want to use in one recipe.

Primary/Secondary is good but we will need to remember which one is primary or secondary. I probably will not remember that 😅

Some vendors seem to allow arbitrary numbers of connections in one workflow. Having said that, it may make reading a recipe more difficult..

For example, I use one HTTP connector with different authentications headers as a work around. Callable recipes can be a work around too.

Thanks!

Re: Connector - Primary/Secondary

george4 — Mon, 03 May 2021 23:15:18 GMT

Gordon Hu I faced that limitation while building sophisticated recipe that utilizes 3+ HTTP connectors to make calls to different APIs. Unfortunately, there is no workaround except dividing the recipe into smaller pieces and use Callable recipe for that.

Re: Connector - Primary/Secondary

georgiaria — Tue, 04 May 2021 03:00:49 GMT

It is also possible to rename your connectors to help you remember which is which. I name mine after the service, then the account. For example, when I create a new Google Sheets connection, it defaults to 'My second Google Sheets account', but I rename it to 'Google Sheets - myemail@mydomain.com' so show which account is being affected. 🙂

Re: Connector - Primary/Secondary

mroldanvega — Tue, 04 May 2021 19:06:25 GMT

We have a naming convention that includes 'Secondary' for all secondary connectors, but in general this is a big limitation. Maybe Tridivesh Sarangi can forward this to the product team and see if there are any plans to remove this limitation.

Re: Connector - Primary/Secondary

tridivesh — Wed, 05 May 2021 03:29:00 GMT

Manuel Roldan-Vega Gordon Hu - thanks for sharing the feedback.