Multiple Actions on "New Record"?

Since some automation actions are "terminal", meaning that no other actions can happen after these, I tried making several independent automations that all trigger off "When rows are added".

Here's my 3 workflows that all trigger on New Row:

  • 10 New record, Set Status - Actions: Change a cell
  • 15 New record, Set Due Date - Actions: Record a date
  • 20New record, Email Manager - Actions: Alert someone

That seems to work as the three workflows all seem to have executed. But apparently not in the order I need. The email received was shows the record prior to the actions 10 and 15 happening.

How can one enforce the order they happen in?

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  • Hollie Green
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    edited 06/14/23

    The only way I can think of is to have 4 helper columns.

    10 new record helper column - Add an additional action to change this helper column to a 1 when the action runs

    15 new record helper column - Add an automation to have the cell in this column to 1 when the 15 new automation would typically run

    20 new record automation - Add an automation to have the cell in this column to 1 when the 20 new automation would typically run.

    Automation helper - Add a sum formula to sum the 3 helper columns

    Change your 15 new record automation to run when the Automation helper column = 2 and add the criteria to change 15 new helper column to a 2

    Change your 20 new record automation to run when the automation helper column = 3

  • 我想我可以有一个辅助列“自动化tate". The work flows would be:

    10 New Record.

    Trigger:New row added.

    Actions:Change cell value ('Status' to New, 'Auto State' to 10)

    20 New Record, Set Due Date.

    Trigger:Rows Changed ('Auto State' changes to 10)

    Condition:'Due Date' is blank

    Actions:Record date into 'Due Date'

    30 Email Contact.

    Trigger:Rows Changed ('Due Date' changes to anything

    Condition:'AutoState' is 10

    Actions:

    1) Alert Someone

    2) Change cell value ('AutoState' to 20)


    I think that should work. Thanks for the idea to use helper column

Yeah. That does sound like it could take awhile. Haha. And if you knew the sheet I'd, you'd be able to just jump to it in SS instead of needing the api.<\/p>


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Maybe a product enhancement request to expand the workflow portion of the api to include the sheet id is in order.<\/p>"}]}},"status":{"statusID":3,"name":"Accepted","state":"closed","recordType":"discussion","recordSubType":"question"},"bookmarked":false,"unread":false,"category":{"categoryID":321,"name":"Smartsheet Basics","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/smartsheet-basics%2B","allowedDiscussionTypes":[]},"reactions":[{"tagID":3,"urlcode":"Promote","name":"Promote","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":5,"count":0},{"tagID":5,"urlcode":"Insightful","name":"Insightful","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":11,"urlcode":"Up","name":"Vote Up","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0},{"tagID":13,"urlcode":"Awesome","name":"Awesome","class":"Positive","hasReacted":false,"reactionValue":1,"count":0}],"tags":[{"tagID":227,"urlcode":"api-and-developers","name":"API and Developers"},{"tagID":334,"urlcode":"automations","name":"Automations"},{"tagID":448,"urlcode":"workflows-in-smartsheet","name":"Workflows in Smartsheet"}]},{"discussionID":109144,"type":"question","name":"Can you automatically rename\/add prefix to a mapped document?","excerpt":"I'm having an issue where I'm regularly automating a mapped document. The input comes in via a form, the service rep makes sure all content is ok, then hits the \"create PDF\" checkbox. A PDF is created and attaches itself to the row. This is great, and gets around the fact you can't just print a nice looking version of the…","snippet":"I'm having an issue where I'm regularly automating a mapped document. The input comes in via a form, the service rep makes sure all content is ok, then hits the \"create PDF\"…","categoryID":321,"dateInserted":"2023-08-18T14:12:34+00:00","dateUpdated":null,"dateLastComment":"2023-08-18T16:30:13+00:00","insertUserID":162047,"insertUser":{"userID":162047,"name":"Nat","title":"Project Manager","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Nat","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/TGR5VC4AXHS3\/nABTHIGSKZB11.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-08-18T17:09:13+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭"},"updateUserID":null,"lastUserID":45516,"lastUser":{"userID":45516,"name":"Paul Newcome","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Paul%20Newcome","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/082\/nQPUTVFKKWDJ2.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-08-20T03:23:12+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"},"pinned":false,"pinLocation":null,"closed":false,"sink":false,"countComments":8,"countViews":78,"score":null,"hot":3384748967,"url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/109144\/can-you-automatically-rename-add-prefix-to-a-mapped-document","canonicalUrl":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/109144\/can-you-automatically-rename-add-prefix-to-a-mapped-document","format":"Rich","tagIDs":[204,334,539],"lastPost":{"discussionID":109144,"commentID":391421,"name":"Re: Can you automatically rename\/add prefix to a mapped document?","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/discussion\/comment\/391421#Comment_391421","dateInserted":"2023-08-18T16:30:13+00:00","insertUserID":45516,"insertUser":{"userID":45516,"name":"Paul Newcome","title":"","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/profile\/Paul%20Newcome","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6031209\/uploads\/userpics\/082\/nQPUTVFKKWDJ2.jpg","dateLastActive":"2023-08-20T03:23:12+00:00","banned":0,"punished":0,"private":false,"label":"✭✭✭✭✭✭"}},"breadcrumbs":[{"name":"Home","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/"},{"name":"Get Help","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/get-help"},{"name":"Smartsheet Basics","url":"https:\/\/community.smartsheet.com\/categories\/smartsheet-basics%2B"}],"groupID":null,"statusID":3,"attributes":{"question":{"status":"accepted","dateAccepted":"2023-08-18T14:58:45+00:00","dateAnswered":"2023-08-18T14:34:35+00:00","acceptedAnswers":[{"commentID":391406,"body":"

When you are setting up your mapping, you can drag and drop a field into the \"Output Document Name\" portion at the top of the mapping. You would just need a field that contains the document name (usually generated by a formula).<\/p>


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@Anita Barnett<\/a> Ok. I understand you are trying to do a wild card search using the search box in Smartsheet. Using a prefix wild card in the search box is no longer supported.<\/p>

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