Automated actions represent one of the two essential components of automations. The actions are triggered by defined trigger events. Depending on the trigger, SeaTable can perform different automation actions. This article provides you with an overview of the different types of automated actions.
Available automation actions
The latest version of SeaTable offers a total of eleven different automation actions to choose from:
- Send notification
- Send app notification
- Send e-mail
- Addrow
- Lock entry
- Edit entry
- Add links
- Add new entry in other table
- Convert page to PDF
- Run Python script
- Execute data processing operation
- When a new entry is added
- Entries meet certain conditions after editing
- Periodic trigger
- Periodic trigger for entries that meet a certain condition
- When a new entry is added
- Entries meet certain conditions after editing
- Periodic trigger
- Periodic trigger for entries that meet a certain condition
- When a new entry is added
- Entries meet certain conditions after editing
- Periodic trigger
- Periodic trigger for entries that meet a certain condition
- When a new entry is added
- Entries meet certain conditions after editing
- Periodic trigger
- When a new entry is added
- Entries meet certain conditions after editing
- Periodic trigger for entries that meet a certain condition
- When a new entry is added
- Entries meet certain conditions after editing
- Periodic trigger for entries that meet a certain condition
- When a new entry is added
- Entries meet certain conditions after editing
- Periodic trigger
- When a new entry is added
- Entries meet certain conditions after editing
- Periodic trigger for entries that meet a certain condition
- When a new entry is added
- Entries meet certain conditions after editing
- Periodic trigger
- Calculate cumulative values
- Calculate ranking
- Calculate changes
- Calculate percentage
- Compare and copy
- Transfer user name
- Periodic trigger
Automation action: Send notification
By defining "Send notification" as an automated action, you can set a notification to one or more users. The selected users receive a notification each time the corresponding trigger is triggered.
You can edit the recipients and content of the notifications at any time in the automation settings. For the recipients, you can select individual users or users in a specific column of the type employee, creator or last editor.
Users can access their notifications via the bell icon next to their avatar in the top right-hand corner.
The automation action "Send notification" is currently available for the following automation triggers:
The article Sending notifications via automation plays through this automation using a concrete use case.
Automation action: Send app notification
By defining "Send app notification" as an automated action, you can set a notification to one or more users of an app. The selected users receive a notification in the app each time the corresponding trigger is triggered.
In the automation settings, you can define which app and which recipients the notifications should be sent to. For the recipients, you can specifically select individual users or users in a certain column of the type employee, creator or last editor. Enter the desired content of the notification in the text field.
Users of the respective app can access their notifications via the bell icon next to their avatar in the top right-hand corner.
The "Send app notification" automation action is currently available for the following automation triggers:
Automation action: Send e-mail
By defining "Send email" as an automated action, you can send predefined emails to one or more users. SeaTable sends an email to each selected user as soon as the corresponding trigger is triggered. You can edit the recipient, subject, content and attachments of the email at any time in the automation settings.
The automation action "Send e-mail" is currently available for the following automation triggers:
The article Email Sending by Automation plays through this automation using a concrete use case.
Automation Action: Add row
If you define "Addrow " as an automated action, a new entry is added to the table as soon as the corresponding trigger is activated. You can define the exact content of the entry individually for each column in advance.
The automation action "row add" is currently available for the following automation triggers:
The article rows add by automation plays through this automation using a concrete use case.
Automation action: Lock entry
If you define "Lock entry" as an automated action, the row with the entry that triggered the automation is locked for editing. Please note that you can no longer unlock locked rows without administrator rights.
The automation action "Lock entry" is currently available for the following automation triggers:
The article rows Locking via Automation runs through this automation using a concrete use case.
Automation action: Edit entry
If you select "Edit entry" as an automated action, entries in the table are adjusted according to the settings defined in advance after the trigger is triggered. As can be seen in the screenshot, for example, the start date of a new employee who is entered in the table can be automatically set to today's date.
The "Edit entry" automation action is currently available for the following automation triggers:
Automation action: Add links
If you select "Add links" as an automated action, a link to entries in another table is created in the corresponding column when the trigger is triggered. In the automation rule settings, you can specify exactly under which conditions which link is added to the table.
The Add Links automation action is currently available for the following automation triggers:
The article Linking entries via automation plays through this automation using a concrete use case.
Automation action: Add new entry in other table
If you select "Add new entry in another table" as an automated action, an entry is created in another table when the trigger is triggered. In the automation rule settings, you can define individual entries that are added to the selected tables as part of the automation.
The automation action "Add new entry in other table" is currently available for the following automation triggers:
The article Adding Entries to Other Tables via Automation runs through this automation using a concrete use case.
Automation action: Convert page to PDF
If you select "Convert page to PDF" as an automated action, a PDF document is created from the data set and saved in a file column when the trigger is triggered. To do this, select a template that you have previously created in the page design plugin. You can also define the file name in the automation rule settings.
The "Convert page to PDF" automation action is currently available with the following automation trigger:
Automation action: Run Python script
If you select the execution of a Python script as an automated action, SeaTable can execute a pre-defined Python script in the selected table. You can create or edit the script at any time in the script editor and then select it in the automation rule settings.
The Run Python Script automation action is currently available with the following automation triggers:
Automation action: perform data processing operation
If you select the execution of a data processing operation as an automated action, a data processing operation defined in advance in the table is executed when the trigger is triggered. You can define the data processing operation to be executed in the automation rule settings.
You can have the following data processing operations performed with automation:
The "Execute data processing operation" automation action is currently available for the following automation trigger:
