# Can you HELP! How to trigger an action on change of cell?

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/can-you-help-how-to-trigger-an-action-on-change-of-cell/61281
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**Created:** [May 2, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/can-you-help-how-to-trigger-an-action-on-change-of-cell/61281 "2023-05-02T22:14:27Z")
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### Author: ![Peter\_Doyle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/peter_doyle/32/45372_2.png) [@Peter\_Doyle](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Peter_Doyle)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/can-you-help-how-to-trigger-an-action-on-change-of-cell/61281/1 "2023-05-02T22:14:27Z")

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Hi all  
I am looking at how to trigger an action from a change of cell within a glide table - no the clicking of a button. The example would be to send an email when a date is upcoming i.e. when a date occurs in 30 days, send the user an email based on cell in that row?  
A lot of the action tutorials are based on the user being active within the system, however this would be trigger when a user is not logged in and requires a reminder/prompt to go into the app.  
I can see how this is done, however cannot seem to make it work within my app.  
Thanks in advance

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### Author: ![Uzo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/uzo/32/22639_2.png) [@Uzo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Uzo)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/can-you-help-how-to-trigger-an-action-on-change-of-cell/61281/2 "2023-05-02T23:00:59Z")

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This is why it is always best to have Google Sheets as your database… and let Google Scripts do all triggers and integrations.

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### Author: ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/can-you-help-how-to-trigger-an-action-on-change-of-cell/61281/3 "2023-05-03T00:15:11Z")

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> [@Peter\_Doyle](#):
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> I am looking at how to trigger an action from a change of cell within a glide table - no the clicking of a button. The example would be to send an email when a date is upcoming i.e. when a date occurs in 30 days, send the user an email based on cell in that row?  
> A lot of the action tutorials are based on the user being active within the system, however this would be trigger when a user is not logged in and requires a reminder/prompt to go into the app.

At the moment, time-based triggers are not supported within Glide Tables, but we expect it to be there before the end of the year.