Hello,
I am the team coordinator and would like to be notified when any status in a specific board changes. With the existing automations this works well, but I don’t want to be notified when I change the status by myself. This is quite useless, annoying and also unnecessarily uses actions from the account.
It would be great if the automation is only initiated when the status change is not performed by me. This is what automation could look like:
When a status is changed to something by anyone who is not someone notify someone.
Hey @SKA & @AlexJ - this is great feedback! Currently, the default notifications (after being assigned to an item, for example) will not be sent to you if you are doing the action. If you set up an automation to send specific notifications, though, it will send to everyone regardless of who performed the action.
We appreciate you taking the time to share this request with our team so we can continue to improve the platform!
I’ve just come here to find out if this exact thing is possible. I want to be notified if anyone marks anything as Done, excluding myself, as I’m the one that makes the most changes.
My current automation is: “When subitem Status changes to Done, Then notify Me” but I need to be able to specify which users can trigger it, or ideally, that my actions don’t.
GCavin
(Gilles Cavin - Reinventing Formulas in monday.com)
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Hi Sarah,
You could do this with the Advanced Formula Booster, a 3rd-party game-changing app that allows you to create formulas.
One of its features is its ability to send notifications through the NOTIFY() function. It has many other features including its syntax editor that can accomodate 100 lines.
You use case would be easy to handle. You would create a formula in the Advanced Formula Booster that you’d trigger when the Status column changes. The formula would read:
The formula would check if you are the one who made the modification and stop if it is. If it is not, it would notify you. The message could be a lot more elaborate, use html, etc. (there is library where you can create messages using a html editor).
