# Is viable to send and email when distance gets to X?
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-viable-to-send-and-email-when-distance-gets-to-x/10530
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [June 8, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-viable-to-send-and-email-when-distance-gets-to-x/10530 "2020-06-08T15:26:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Madaleno](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Madaleno)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-viable-to-send-and-email-when-distance-gets-to-x/10530/1 "2020-06-08T15:26:06Z")
Would that be possible without zapier (not even sure if with zapier is)? When the user gets away from a location to send an email or an sms saying “you haven’t checked out” thanks to the new distance column?
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-viable-to-send-and-email-when-distance-gets-to-x/10530/2 "2020-06-08T15:53:18Z")
Zapier could do the trick here!
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### Author:  [@Madaleno](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Madaleno)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-viable-to-send-and-email-when-distance-gets-to-x/10530/3 "2020-06-08T16:37:39Z")
I’d rather not user zapier if possible since I’m creating apps just for personal entertainment and I already have a pro one for one year!
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-viable-to-send-and-email-when-distance-gets-to-x/10530/4 "2020-06-08T17:14:41Z")
Could create a script instead.
[https://community.glideapps.com/t/send-a-daily-email-if-cell-is-not-empty/9547/10](https://community.glideapps.com/t/send-a-daily-email-if-cell-is-not-empty/9547/10)
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-viable-to-send-and-email-when-distance-gets-to-x/10530/5 "2020-06-08T17:38:09Z")
But the distance data is not in the sheet, so I don’t think you could script anything.
I also doubt the distance is really updated real time in the Glide data. Most likely it’s handled locally on the device. That would be a data sync nightmare otherwise. Because of that and the fact that there are no internal glide triggers at this time, and the fact that a users current position isn’t tracked in the data, I can’t think of a way send a notification. The user would have to submit a form with the distance value passed through the form, but that defeats the purpose of a proximity alert notification.
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-viable-to-send-and-email-when-distance-gets-to-x/10530/6 "2020-06-08T17:38:28Z")
Oh that’s TRUE!
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### Author:  [@Madaleno](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Madaleno)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-viable-to-send-and-email-when-distance-gets-to-x/10530/7 "2020-06-08T22:23:45Z")
Gotcha, I’ll try!