Controlling when an update is sent?

[Adam_W (Adam Wilson)]

We use Monday for managing customer engagements and often (particularly early in the process), we see a lot of changes in the due dates of items as things move around.

Because of this, I’m trying to create a bit less notification spam for our team by seeing if it’s possible to send a notification of a (date) change once a day, rather than every time it’s updated. So, it’d essentially be an Automation that triggers once a day, and only notifies if a change has happened.

Looking here, this might not be possible? But do you have any workarounds?

[GeorgeBaker]

Possibly:

Date update status (Has date updated today? “yes/no”)

Automation 1:
When date changes, if “Has Date Updated Today” = no, then set “Has Date Updated Today” to Yes.

Automation 2:
Every day at X time (end of work day perhaps), IF “Has Date Updated Today” to yes, then notify “person”, then set “Has Date Updated Today” to no.

This setup checks if the date has changed today before notifying anyone with anything.

Set the time, and notification text, to whatever you/your team needs/wants.

Hope this helps!

[GeorgeBaker]

Oh wait I see now… There’s no way to add a condition to the “every time period” automation…
To replace that, a workflow may work

That replaces the automation, and you can add delays, and set it for multiple boards if you need.

Sorry for missing it in my first message! This should be it though.

So, TL;DR, Automation 1 stays, replace Automation 2 with a Workflow matching above image.

Hope this helps!

[Adam_W (Adam Wilson)]

Thanks, George! This would work well if the if the workflow supported similar variables to the automations.

Unless I’m missing something (definitely possible!), we can’t set this to monitor all items, nor have it notify the {owner} of an item. You have to configure each item and person individually.

I might have to file a feature request.