Ways to trigger an automation via a column being filled

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Currently a customer uploads a photo, then needs to press process photo to do an API call to get values pulled from it. It would go a lot quicker if, as soon as that column is filled, the api call and necessary json queries, setting of column values, and proceeding to next step gets done automatically.

I am aware we can do so in Make and have it watching the column, however is there a way to do this inside of Glide? Where an action can be triggered via a column being filled, not with pressing a button/a time schedule/a webhook or email trigger?

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You could try the Call API column in the data editor with a custom form.

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A form container is still showing a submit action to click, unless I am missing something?

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Unfortunately there isn’t a way to watch a column for instantaneous, you would need to build a workflow where to upload the photo to the row you need go through some custom form / edit screen that Eric was suggesting, on “submit” the photo it would send the api request

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A custom form is just a one row table with some user specific columns. If you upload a photo to a user specific column then you could pass it through the Call API column, chain together other columns, and display whatever you need on screen.. all without pressing a button.

Set column values without pressing a button is above my pay grade… maybe some Ai component.

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If you’re inside a native form, you can upload the image to a user-specific column residing in your User Profiles table.

Then, do all the necessary API and JSON queries based on that column, and do the next step with the values you get, from your User Profiles table.

Basically a temporary exit from the sandbox environment of native forms to calculate something.

The alternative is a custom form.

This take is correct imo. Call API, as a column, doesn’t need you to click anything.

AI component can help you set column values based on an input JSON.

I have a use case just a while ago. I upload an image, process its content, and set values to bounded variables through an AI component.