Need an Action to force “Execute/commit previous Actions before continuing”

[Matt_Blais]

I’ve run into a couple situations where it would be very helpful if an Action was able to reference the results of previous Actions in the Rule (and/or in very-recently-executed Rules, which apparently don’t get immediately committed).

The simplest solution would seem to be an Action to force all the “pending” Actions to be executed/committed before continuing.

What am I doing wrong?

Apparently it’s worse than that… It appears that additionally, the results of “very recently run” Rules (i.e., those triggered “at the same time”) are also unavailable This is making it very difficult to do the following via no-code: Create a Button for the “Page” DB that creates and links five “Task” entities. Use a “Task” Rule to set the Start Date of each newly-created Task to the “most recently created Task’s” Due Date, plus 7 days (that bit is always empty). I’…

[Polina_Zenevich]

Hi, Matt!
Noted, have that planned for some day in our backlog

[Chr1sG]

@Matt_Blais

very-recently-executed Rules, which apparently don’t get immediately committed

AFAIK an automation that is triggered will execute all its actions in sequence. The changes in the first action step of a given rule should always be completed before the second step is started, and so on.
However, formula fields are calculated asynchronously, so it is possible that a change in an automation step can cause formula recalculations which do not resolve before the subsequent automation actions.