The "Send a Discord message" automation action sends a message to your Discord channels when specific events occur in your Grid. Use this to keep stakeholders informed about project changes without manual updates.
If you are not familiar with creating an Automation, please view the following article: Creating an Automation.
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Setup
After creating the Automation, you need to configure the trigger and action. In this example, we’ll create an Automation that sends a message to a Discord channel when a string in the source language column is edited.
Add trigger
- Click Add Trigger, then select Record updated from the dropdown list.
- In Watching columns field, select the column you want to trigger this automation. We'll select the Source language column (Source_enUS) for this example.
Add Send Discord message action
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Click Add Step and select Send a Discord message in the list of actions.
- Webhook URL: Input your webhook URL. If you do not know how to create one, please read this article from Discord.
- Message: you can customize the message to your needs. Click Select input value for action to add value from the Grid such as: cell value, Grid name, etc. Here is a sample message.
The Discord message would look like this.
Advanced: Send messages to a Discord thread
You can also add a Thread ID so that messages will be sent to a thread in the channel.
To find the Thread ID:
- Click and click Create to create a thread in the channel.
- Add a Thread Name and enter a message to start the conversation.
- Right click on the starter message and select Copy message link. Paste it to a note.
- Copy the highlighted part only and paste in to the Thread ID in Gridly.
Test your Automation
- Turn on the Automation using the switch next to Automation name.
- Click Test Automation. If your Automation is not turned on, Gridly will require you to turn it on in a pop-up message.