Overview

Automations are the updated version of Triggers (deprecated) in Gridly - It helps embrace AI technologies to improve content and localization workflows by performing automated actions, all within the well-known spreadsheet interface and without any help from developers needed. 

Automations allow you to set up custom trigger-action workflows right inside your Grid. This can allow you to save hours of your team’s time and reduce unnecessary communication. Learn how to build automations to tackle the repetitive tasks that slow down your productivity. 

Automations can be found on the sidebar in a Grid:

For an automation to run, you need to have at least a trigger and an action. When you turn your automations on, it will run the action steps every time the trigger event occurs.

Actions

An action is a step that performs a task, one example being sending a Slack message. When the trigger fires, the automation is said to be executed. 

Available actions include:

1. Automation action: Send web request  
2. Automation action: Send a Slack message 
3. Automation action: Lambda function  
4. Automation action: Google Text Translate 
5. Automation action: Amazon Text Translate 
6. Automation action: Amazon Text To Speech (Standard/Neural) 
7. Automation action: Google OCR 
8. Automation action: Amazon Sentiment Analysis
9. Automation action: AI Chat Generation 
10. Automation action: AI Text Generation 
11. Automation action: AI Image Generation 
12. Automation Action: Formula Editor 
13. Automation action: Send a Discord message 
14. Automation action: Asana Task Creation 
15. Automation Action: Set value 
16. Automation action: Send a Discord message 
17. IF conditions

To create and run successful automations, please view this article: Creating an Automation.

Triggers

Triggers are set up to start automated workflows whenever you add or update something in Gridly. Available triggers include: 

Record

1. Record created
2. Record updated
3. Record deleted

Column

1. Column created
2. Column updated
3. Column deleted

Tickets

1. Ticket created
2. Ticket updated
3. Ticket deleted
4. Ticket status changed
5. Comment added

Manual

1. Manual Record Trigger

How to install Automation actions

Some automation actions can cost extra fees to your current plan, so you are required to install before using. 

1. Click on the header to open Integrations, then open the Automation actions tab. 
2. Select the actions you want to purchase, click Install, then Confirm.

To uninstall, click and select Uninstall Add-on, then click Confirm. 

To view all the related articles to Automations, click here.