Automation email person selected in a form

[Kgreenlee (Kristin Greenlee)]

I’m fairly new to monday.com so forgive me if this is really basic! I have a Board that has items created based on input from a form. On the form, I have a dropdown of employees that can be selected for that item. I’d like those people to be notified when they are selected on a form, but none of the automations allow me to do anything with the column that contains those people’s names. I create an automation that says when date arrives, send email to X. Under X my only choices are email (column), team member, people (column), board subscribers, team or guest. How can I get it to offer up the column that’s on my form?

[dkahan91 (David Kahan)]

I have a similar issue. Check out this thread it seems to be the only way to do it is through the status column rather than a dropdown.

Assign Person column within form

Ah I see what you’re doing. A status column where each person is entered as a status. And then an automation for each person “when a status changes to something, assign someone as the assignee”. It works but if your team changes, you will need to remember to go back and update the column and automations. It was be nice to not have to do this workaround.

Hopefully Monday.com will improve this functionality and allow a people colun to be added to a form as at the moment it feels like a hack.