When you have multiple automations running and one of them is move item to another board, you can’t control the order in which they run. So most times the item is moved and the other automations never ran.
I am posting dates before moving them but it doesnt work, so I am moving them manually in batches at the minute.
If you could build in a default delay on the ‘Move Item to board’ automations then this would allow us to move things automatically without there being missing data.
Hope that makes sense. Thanks in advance
Some amazing updates on the dashboards lately with multiple boards being enabled on stacked charts
Hi @Jack - thanks for sharing this request! I’m wondering if you could use the following automation based on the date you’re adding to your items in order to move them after your other automations run:
With this automation, you could define the When to be 1 day after the due date in order to build in a delay. Do you think that sounds like it could work for you?
Hi @melissav-monday.com thanks for your reply. I did play around with this but i decided against it as I only want to delay a minute or so max really before the lead moves over over to the closed board.
I worry that if they stay there for a day and for whatever reason they are updated again (e.g change their mind and and are moved back to active stage, or moved into closed by accident), that automation will still run and they will move the next day. As there is no visible schedule for automations or a way of cancelling them I’m not comfortable scheduling things too far in the future as it could get a bit messy.
Hi,
This would also be useful when moving item on status change: for example, when I change my status to “done”, the item moves to another group immediatly even before I can post an update.
If a delay is on, it has be to visible on the item.
Any idea if either of these changes are in the pipeline Monday Team?
The simplest solution IMO would be to add in a short delay on any ‘move to board’ automations. Just enough time for all other automations to run first.
I need a delay option as well. Let us delay an automation step by seconds minutes hours or days. I created an update for an item and then it disappeared in front of me when the item moved to another board but I was not done taking action on the item. I had to go to the other board to continue updating the item. If it delayed by a minute or two It would have been less disruptive. Or at a minimum dont make it disappear when the item is open. Leave it open but move the item in the background via automation
As a user, I want to create automation recipes with multiple steps that will run in the sequence in which they are defined on the recipe. I should be able to specify a delay (in seconds, minutes, hours, days) for each step in the automation.
There’s more to unpack here. Product Management team - happy to chime in on requirements
+1 for a delay option. I have an automation that replicates the comments included in a text column into the conversation thread, so there is traceability of the comments modified each week. I would love to have a delay option, as sometimes the people making the updates want to go back correct something that was misspelled and the updates end up getting logged multiple times
Did anyone find a workaround for this? I’m trying to connect two different boards - accounts and contacts- with items that are created from hubspot. Because sometimes contacts are created first and sometimes accounts are created first, the items aren’t always there when the automation runs to connect.
@KTinBK I discovered (just this week) an automation that will delay by “some time” after moving to a group. I created a group for that purpose. Then I wrote the recipe to say “move” after 1 minute.
So far it’s working well!
Hope that helps.
Some automations do not process because the pulse moves to another board before it could run. Seen a lot of others have the same issue. Need to be able to add a small delay before this automation runs so everything else has run before it moves over to the next board.
We need the board move automations to have a default delay built in so they always run last…
If not we need an automation ‘When Status changes to x, Move Item to Board after x amount of time’ but it should have minutes as an option as days/hours would be excessive.
Currently having to manually look at activity logs to fill in dates which were not populated because it moved before that automation could run. PLEASE help!
