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Status Future consideration
Categories Application
Created by David Willequer
Created on Apr 12, 2024

Add ability to add conditions to automatic actions

What is the challenge?

Currently you are only able to add conditions to the trigger. Sometimes when creating automations, there is a desire to add conditions to the actions themselves.

What is the impact?

This would allow automations to be significantly more versatile and remove the need to create one automation per value in a dropdown if you need to perform different actions based on that value.

Describe your idea

Add functionality that would would allow you to have conditions on actions themselves. This would allow administrators to consolidate multiple automations into a single automation.


For example -

If Feature is created or updated and [FIELD] = Any value AND Status = New

Perform the following actions:

Update the field [FIELD2] to [VALUE X] IF [FIELD] = [VALUE 1]

Update the field [FIELD2] to [VALUE Y] IF [FIELD] =[VALUE 2]


Current state to achieve this same thing you would need to create two separate automations:

If Feature is created or updated and [FIELD] = [VALUE1] AND Status = New

Perform the following actions:

Update the field [FIELD 2] to [VALUE X]
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If Feature is created or updated and [FIELD] = [VALUE 2] AND Status = New

Perform the following actions:

Update the field [FIELD 2] to [VALUE Y]

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  • David Willequer
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    Apr 12, 2024

    Additionally - they conditions should be able to be based on related records. See similar story: https://big.ideas.aha.io/ideas/A-I-15690