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blopez
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I need to automatically trigger a script that makes use of `Field.updateOptionsAsync`to add options to my single-select field. I first wrote this as an automation script so I could easily set up a trigger, but saw this API is only allowed in scripting extensions. So then, I wrote it as a script extension and couldn't figure out how to automatically trigger it to run. So then I found out about block-cli and released the extension to my base because I misunderstood that `block run --remote` does not run the extension remotely, leaving me with 2 extensions that do the exact same thing. So:

  1. Is it possible to run extensions remotely / trigger them to run automatically? How so if it is?
  2. Can we get the ability to use `updateOptionsAsync` in an automation script?
  3. Is there yet another way to achieve what I am trying to do?

 

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Hi,
I'm not sure it's the best workaround for this, but I described how I solved the problem HERE.
In short, automation can add option when you update record with the new value. So I did dedicated automation for this, triggered by webhook.