We’ve been working hard to address some issues with the fill process in Tiller Money Feeds. The biggest one being timeouts for some customers using Google Sheets when trying to fill a very large amount of data combined with an already large data set and complex dashboards. This “fill crash” has been a challenging bug for many of our long time customers for a while and we’re excited to announce that we believe we have pushed a change that should address this issue going forward.
Please let us know if you run into new issues or odd behavior with the Google Sheets fill. We did our best to test rigorously before pushing this change, but there’s always a chance some edge case slips through.
As a part of this initiative we also increased the frequency of the Auto Fill for Google Sheets from once per day to about every 6 hours. Keep in mind that some accounts still require you to manually refresh before the data is available in our system to fill, but this should make the data we can fill more timely.
If you already have Auto Fill enabled the next time you Launch Tiller Money Feeds it should automatically switch your Auto Fill from the once a day to four times a day fill. You do need to launch the add-on or manually toggle Auto Fill off/on in order to access this update. You can read more about how Auto Fill works on our Help Center.
As a part of this initiative we also made changes to the Microsoft Excel fill so that behind the scenes both platforms are using as much shared technology as possible. This makes it faster and easier for our engineers to iterate on one of our most crucial features. For most this change was not noticeable.
While we hope to one day offer Auto Fill for workbooks stored on Excel Online, we don’t have that as a near term priority and we are unable to automatically fill data into workbooks only stored locally on a customer’s computer.
If you have any feedback or questions about this update, feel free to reply below.
