Scheduled Action, Action Triggered by Other Action

[alikl]

How to accomplish these?

1. Need to trigger an action every so often. For example, for a task management app, I need to generate a task every day/week/month. For example, generate a task every week to water the plants.

2. Need to trigger an action caused by other action. For example, if a record added to the table, add 3 more records in another table. Specifically, if “water the plants” task added a records (from previous example), trigger an action of adding 3 more sub tasks of paying water bill, remind to close all water faucets, and send an email these records are generated.

Thanks!

[nathanaelb]

@alikl

Need to trigger an action every so often.

@alikl

Need to trigger an action caused by other action

Currently, actions can only be triggered by a user. Actions cannot be automated, cannot be triggered on a timely basis, cannot be triggered when data changes.

Rumor has it that this will change sometime soon and that automations will make their way to Glide, but I don’t think any release date has been announced. I think we can assume sometime this year.

For now then, automations can be handled outside of Glide, via Make or Zapier for instance.

[ThinhDinh]

@nathanaelb

Rumor has it that this will change sometime soon and that automations will make their way to Glide, but I don’t think any release date has been announced. I think we can assume sometime this year.

A prototype is in staging already, but no actions have been tied to it.