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Hey, I’m trying to achieve a scheduled reminder for the people assigned to the records. I have the whole logic defined, but it looks like the simplest solution of using “Actionable message” within “repeat for each” within the list doesn’t work (as Actionable message is waiting for action before moving forward). 
 
Any other ideas on how to approach it in an easy and clean way without adding extra fields in the database?
Also, Airtable Team, it would be awesome if this could be actually improved on your end if possible :) 

There are 2 ways of accomplishing this:

  1. You can break up your automation into 2 separate automations.

    In your first automation, you would loop through each record and mark each record with a checkbox in a checkbox field.

    Then, your 2nd automation would trigger based on that checkbox field being checked, and that automation is the one that would send the actionable action.
     
  2. You can create your own “custom” actionable messages by using a combination of Make’s Airtable automations, Make’s Slack automations, and Make’s custom webhooks.

    I prefer using Make for advanced automations like this, because it is much more powerful & much more customizable than Airtable’s built-in automations.

    I give step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish this on this Airtable podcast episode. I show how to do this within the context of “sending an email message”, but it’s the same exact thing if you are “sending a Slack message”.

    If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you could instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable.

Hope this helps!

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it looks like the simplest solution of using “Actionable message” within “repeat for each” within the list doesn’t work (as Actionable message is waiting for action before moving forward). 

Hm what problems are you facing with this?  I have an automation that’s set up like this:

  1. Find records to look for multiple records
  2. For each of those records, it sends an actionable Slack message
  3. When the user clicks the button, it updates the checkbox field by ticking it

When I run the automation, if it finds 5 records, it’ll send 5 messages each with their own unique button and I can click any of the buttons independently and they work fine

And so I’m wondering how the setup is different from yours?

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