New Item Email Trigger Going Off Too Soon

Hi. I’m new to automations within Monday.com, so this is a very newbie question. I have created an automation that sends an email through Gmail once a new item is created. The problem is that the new item trigger, and thus the email being sent, happens before I can populate details in columns for the new item. Therefore, I can’t include important item details in the email.

What do I do to send an email about an item after the item has been created and its details populated?

Two methods, use a form which lets you fill in all the values before creating the item.

Otherwise you can instead change the email to send on a status change, and just set the status when you’re done filling out the item information.

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Perfect solutions. I wasn’t looking outside the box.

In addition to to using the form you can also trigger the autmation by tying it to a status column: when item is created and status is ____ send notification