Can you use the text in an "Update" in an email automation?

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Hey -

I’ve been messing around in Monday with this for a bit now and haven’t been able to figure out how to make this work.

Essentially, I want to be able to use Gmail integration to send an email based off an update that was made on a specific item.

So the flow would be:

-Update created on item
-Automation pulls email address from text column on specific item
-Email sent to the person who’s email was entered in the email text column using the content of the Update that triggered the automation to begin with.

From what I can see, there’s no way through the auto populate field, to pull info from an update, and I’m assuming it’s because there would be no way to distinguish between which update to send, but wasn’t sure if there was some way to do this with a different integration?

The key is that it needs to be able to send an email to someone who isn’t on the board based on the email in one of the text columns.

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

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Hey Noah,

You raise a great point. I am afraid it isn’t currently possible to include specific updates in the content of an email automation. I agree that this would be a valuable addition and encourage you to submit this as a feature request so our community can add their vote.

On that note, you might like to look into our API incase this can be set up using it - monday.api :slight_smile:

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