Condition

It is possible to perform an automation action only if certain trigger criteria are met.

For example, you may have a table of Orders with an Accepted flag, and you want to send an Email to notify the shopper of their purchase, but only if the order is accepted.

Steps

1. Create an automation using the Row Updated trigger.

The automation builder should now show a Row Updated trigger configured for the Orders table.

2. Add a condition action.
   The updated order must have had the Accepted flag turned on to be able to continue.

The condition step checks whether the Accepted flag is enabled before the automation continues.

Notify on stop

You can optionally enable the Notify on stop toggle. When enabled, if the automation stops at this condition because the criteria were not met, a notification will be displayed on the Budibase home page / builder dashboard. This is useful for monitoring specific business logic flows where a stop is noteworthy but not necessarily an error.

3. Add the send email action.

The final action sends the purchase notification after the condition passes.

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Multiple Conditions

You can add as many condition actions as you like.
When chained in a row, it effectively creates a logical AND expression.