I have automation where if number in employee table is above 6 trigger automation, If I manually select record and run automation it works as it should.. Just not sure why its not being triggered.
So employee was at 7, I created another entry using interface, It moved to 8. Automation did not run.
This is one of those “tricky things” about Airtable’s automations.
Automations will ONLY trigger if the triggering condition was “PREVIOUSLY false” but is “NOW true”.
So if your count field used to have the number 1 in it but now it has the number 8 in it, then your automation will trigger because it went from a FALSE condition to a TRUE condition.
But if your count field currently has 7 in it and then it goes up to 8, those are both TRUE conditions, so your automation won’t trigger.
In your case, you may want to change your trigger to watch for “when a record is updated” and monitor that count field.
Then, your automation will trigger whenever that count field is updated, no matter what the value is.
(To accommodate for this change, you will then need to add more conditional actions into your action steps.)
Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld
Hey
Having said that, please feel free to reach out if you need any help setting this up. I’d be happy to hop on a brief call.
Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation
This is one of those “tricky things” about Airtable’s automations.
Automations will ONLY trigger if the triggering condition was “PREVIOUSLY false” but is “NOW true”.
So if your count field used to have the number 1 in it but now it has the number 8 in it, then your automation will trigger because it went from a FALSE condition to a TRUE condition.
But if your count field currently has 7 in it and then it goes up to 8, those are both TRUE conditions, so your automation won’t trigger.
In your case, you may want to change your trigger to watch for “when a record is updated” and monitor that count field.
Then, your automation will trigger whenever that count field is updated, no matter what the value is.
(To accommodate for this change, you will then need to add more conditional actions into your action steps.)
Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld
Crap, I need to have it trigger each time its above 6… so 6 email, 7 email, 8 email etc.
I suppose no way around this?
I gave you the answer above on how to workaround this.
- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant
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