'contains' vs 'has any of' in automation condition

[Sigurdur_Herman]

TL;DR: what's the difference between 'contains' and 'has any of'?

I'm setting up some automations with a 'when a record matches conditions' trigger.

When I set my 'find records' trigger to the condition 'has any of' the dynamic value I want to use, I get 'invalid value: when a record matches conditions cannot be converted to an array of string'.

When I set the condition to 'contains', it works perfectly.

What is the difference between 'has any of' and 'contains'? In natural language the two are synonymous (to my sense of the language, anyway), but I assume there's some important distinction in the underlying code that I don't understand.

[Abdullah_Yuksel · Accepted solution]

Hi,

"Has any of" requires linked records or lookup values in Airtable. On the other hand, "contains" is a string operator which works in various conditions. 

[Sigurdur_Herman]

I knew it had to be something like that. Thanks, Abdullah 😃