I’m reminding my team of tasks weekly, using a digest.
Some weeks there are 0 tasks (although rare). If this happens, the run is considered a failure, and I’m sent a report about it.
If there are no records to be found , I don’t want a digest to be sent. So in reality I don’t consider it a failure.
Is there any way to adapt the automation to this? Or do I need to await a potential if/then feature?
Unfortunately, the Airtable engineers who designed this feature never considered that finding zero records should never be considered a failure.
I would recommend emailing support@airtable.com to ask them to fix this flaw, but unfortunately, Airtable doesn’t typically listen to user feedback either.
Your only 2 options to workaround this are:
(1) customize your automation by writing your own custom JavaScript script to handle the finding records part,
or
(2) use a professional automation tool like Integromat, which is a low-code environment that doesn’t require any Javascript coding.
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