TLDR: the suggestion - can we please have a new automation like the one below that uses “When STATUS changes to XXXXX” as the trigger? The current trigger is way too broad and hard to work with.
I’m having a few issues with the item connection automation:
- Sometimes I don’t want the automation to run every time a column changes - the item is already connected. This means I have make a work-around, like a separate column to trigger the connection, and another automation that detects some change in another column and “changes” the actual trigger column to make sure this automation only happens once.
- I have 5 team project summary boards, and one Project Board board template. When a board is created from a template, I want to run this automation to connect the project’s items to the right team’s project summary board. However, to do this currently, I’d need to have a different status column for each team in the template so that I can trigger only that team’s connection automation. Since we have many items that need to be connected to specific columns, this results in a proliferation of “trigger” status columns (5 teams X 6 connections = 30 trigger columns needed).
If anyone has a work around for this please let me know, but I think the solution is a new automation that takes “When STATUS changes to XXXXX…” as the trigger instead of any change to the column.