Creating an automation feature, which URL?

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Hello,

I am currently working on creating a new feature for my application. As part of this, I need to set up an automation action, but I am encountering an issue.

Being a student and having a preference for application programming, I have very little experience with web development and significant gaps in this area. In particular, the concepts of URLs and servers are quite unclear to me, which complicates my understanding.

At the moment, to create my automation action, I am being asked to provide a URL, but I have no idea which URL to use or where to find it. In my company, which specializes in consulting for Monday.com, we do not have our own server; we exclusively use Monday.com.

Additionally, I have already developed several features that are currently used by our clients, but I have never needed to provide a URL before. So far, I have only tested locally, built my project, and integrated it into Monday.com without any issues.

I don’t understand which URL I should provide to begin developing this feature.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Best regards,
Delépine Tom

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Hello there @TomDel,

The run URL in your custom action is a specific endpoint defined by you. The endpoint (URL) you add there will be called via an HTTP request from our server when the trigger in your recipe is triggered. It is typically hosted on your server (but it can also be hosted in a no-code platform such as Make.com). The purpose is for you to be notified via an HTTP (to that endpoint) when the event of the trigger occurs.

For example: “When a new item is created in monday.com, send its details to an external service.”

In that case, when a new item is created in a board, we would send an HTTP request to the endpoint you define, letting you know an item was created.

Whatever happens after we call your endpoint is up to you.

You can find the article about how this works here :smile:

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Hello,
Thank you for your quick response; it will help me a lot.
Delepine Tom

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Happy to help @TomDel !