Email notifications when user makes a comment on any record

If you use @[user] in a comment box for a record they will receive an email notification. Or it’s non-users you want to notify, you could try using a field that is hidden from general view for people to add comments, which then triggers a notification. If you do this you’ll want to put some kind of time delay on the notification though, because the trigger fires automatically as soon as the user starts typing, so you tend to get a notification with just the first letter of their comment!

Thanks! So tagging triggers an instant notification without using any automation. That’s nifty.

Adding a custom field to take comments can work, except, my requirement is to share a “Comment Only” view of the Airtable with someone. And I would like to be able to get an email notification when the user puts a comment. So they would have no access to any custom fields. I hope I am able to explain.

Create a new view that just shows the comment field. Hide all the other fields. Now create a shared link for that view. Each record in a table has its own URL, so you can use that URL in a notification email to take the user to the record to read the new comment.

If you use @[user] in a comment box for a record they will receive an email notification. Or it’s non-users you want to notify, you could try using a field that is hidden from general view for people to add comments, which then triggers a notification. If you do this you’ll want to put some kind of time delay on the notification though, because the trigger fires automatically as soon as the user starts typing, so you tend to get a notification with just the first letter of their comment!