Triggering automation by button
in progress
Brian Dollen
Merged in a post:
Button Field to trigger an automation
KLR Admin
Button to trigger automation
Jon Darbyshire
in progress
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Axely Congress
I would love to have this feature. You can do this in a ClickUp doc.
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Yari Schutzer
Maybe this is achievable when webhooks become available, as a Smartsuite webhook could the be URL of the button and be directed to a SmartSuite automation's inbound webhook as the trigger.
KLR Admin
Yari Schutzer: Thanks for the feedback. That is something to check out when it available.
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Shawn Tabrizi
Love this request. I would expand on it a bit, and say that it would be nice to have the option to trigger automations manually from the automations menu. (i.e. have a button next to each automation that says, 'run manually' rather than waiting on the trigger to make it run.)
This could really expand the use cases for automations.
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BW
Agreed. Even Trello has this option. Lotus (pre Excel) had ability to assign hot keys to automations (macros) in the early 1980s.
Threads Julian Dumitrascu
I want to know when we can use buttons to trigger actions: https://help.smartsuite.com/en/articles/6805151-button-field#:~:text=operations%20or%20even-,trigger,-SmartSuite%20automations.
Until then, I'd take time e.g. for talks about this. Also willing to take other actions that would help work progress.
Joe Sasson
Great idea!
One of my workarounds for this is to set the trigger to detect a change to a toggle (true/false) switch.
You can also use a button to trigger an automation in make.com/zapier via webhook.