# Creating An Action Outside Of Glide

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-an-action-outside-of-glide/70596
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [February 7, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-an-action-outside-of-glide/70596 "2024-02-07T19:01:57Z")
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### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/creating-an-action-outside-of-glide/70596/2 "2024-02-07T19:14:06Z")

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> [@Automations / triggering actions without user interaction](https://community.glideapps.com/t/automations-triggering-actions-without-user-interaction/65127):
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> It appears you can only trigger an action from a user interaction, like the click of a button - but you can’t trigger actions as a result of some data changing, or from an API call outside the app. Example: A form on a company website is filled in which adds a record to a table → send push notification to relevant user OR A record’s status is updated by one user → send email to another user Even using Make and Zapier, I’m unable to set up any external automations involving Glide that don’t …

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