What causes "Row action '${rowActionId}' not found in '${tableId}'" in Budibase/budibase?

Confirm the rowActionId exists on that table by listing the table's row actions first.

Budibase/budibase · error · HTTPError

Row action '${rowActionId}' not found in '${tableId}'

Error message

Row action '${rowActionId}' not found in '${tableId}'

What it means

Thrown by get in packages/server/src/sdk/workspace/rowActions/crud.ts when the requested rowActionId does not exist in the table's row-actions document. It loads all actions for the table and throws a 400 if actionsDoc.actions[rowActionId] is undefined.

Source

Thrown at packages/server/src/sdk/workspace/rowActions/crud.ts:99

    permissions: {
      table: { runAllowed: true },
      views: {},
    },
  }
  await db.put(doc)

  return {
    id: newRowActionId,
    name: automation.name,
    ...doc.actions[newRowActionId],
  }
}

export async function get(tableId: string, rowActionId: string) {
  const actionsDoc = await getAllForTable(tableId)
  const rowAction = actionsDoc?.actions[rowActionId]
  if (!rowAction) {
    throw new HTTPError(
      `Row action '${rowActionId}' not found in '${tableId}'`,
      400
    )
  }
  return rowAction
}

export async function getAllForTable(tableId: string) {
  const db = context.getWorkspaceDB()
  const rowActionsId = generateRowActionsID(tableId)
  return await db.tryGet<TableRowActions>(rowActionsId)
}

export async function getAll() {
  const db = context.getWorkspaceDB()
  return (
    await db.allDocs<WithDocMetadata<TableRowActions>>(
      docIds.getDocParams(DocumentType.ROW_ACTIONS, undefined, {

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Solutions

Confirm the rowActionId exists on that table by listing the table's row actions first.
Ensure the id belongs to the same tableId you are passing — ids are table-scoped.
Refresh client-side references if the action was recently deleted or recreated (new id).

Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

const actions = (await rowActions.getAllForTable(tableId))?.actions ?? {}
if (!(rowActionId in actions)) return null

Try / catch

try {
  const action = await rowActions.get(tableId, rowActionId)
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof HTTPError && e.status === 400) {
    // action missing: refresh table row actions
  } else throw e
}

Prevention

List the table's row actions and pick ids from that response.
Never pass an automation id where a row action id is expected.
Invalidate cached action ids after delete/recreate operations.

When it happens

Trigger: Calling get(tableId, rowActionId) with an id that was deleted, mistyped, or belongs to a different table; also raised indirectly via guardView and automation flows that call get internally.

Common situations: Frontend holding a stale row action id after the action was deleted; passing an automation id rather than a row action id; copy-pasting ids between apps.

Understand the failure class

Background: 'Could not be found', 'does not exist', 'not found in database': the resource-not-found family when an ID, slug, key, or URI lookup comes back empty — this error's family across 20 libraries.

Related errors

AI-assisted analysis of Budibase/budibase@a81a902e9a (2026-08-29). Data as JSON: /api/errors/7aaabfaf82f01928. Report an issue: GitHub.