It would be very useful to be able to set text column values via automation. It is possible to set status column values and number column values, but not to set plain text column values. This is a gap in automations function.
The general use of this functionality would open up a number of use cases.
One such case I am very keen on is to use automations to set text column values upon item creation. Our organization does this routinely, and critically, on a number of our corporate boards using the ‘item default value’ functionality. I have learned recently this functionality is ‘automation adjacent’, but without the same level of visibility or audit trail as automations. If automations would perform this functionality I would move the default settings into automations to have all such activities in one place, and more robust visibility into the actions.
Additionally, there are a number of other use cases for setting text column values based upon a change in a column.
(Of course, it would also be desirable for default item values to work more consistently.)