🆕 Trigger · Web link clicked · Workflow Automation

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It’s our pleasure to announce that we’ve added the trigger Web link clicked to our supercharged workflow automation.

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Overview

The event that starts an automation with the trigger “When a weblink is clicked” is when someone clicks on a web link. You can create this web link with the action “Create web link”. This allows you to create smart links that are associated with records in Tape and provide them e.g. via the “Send email” action. For a better user experience, you can create custom messages when someone clicks on the web link with the action “Show a message on a web page”.

Simplified:

1. Create a weblink with the action “Create web link”
2. Create an automation with the trigger “Web link clicked” and add optional the action “Display message”

Check out more about the actions Create web link or Display a message on a web page

A simple use case

“When an unsubscribe link is clicked in a newsletter email (Trigger) set the contact who clicked on the link to unsubscribe from newsletter (Action)”.

Create automation using the trigger “When a weblink is clicked”

• First automation block - Trigger - the “When this happens” automation statement
  

  
  • Choose the trigger When a weblink is clicked
  • Set the trigger by selecting the app where the automation should be triggered

• Second automation block - Filter - the “And if conditions are met” automation statement
  

  
  • Set your filter to start actions only if certain conditions are met:
    • A field to be evaluated, at the first dropdown menu
    • An operator at the second dropdown menu, i.e., Contains, Does not contain, Is not, etc.
    • A field value - enter the field value for the selected field from the first dropdown. Note that the operators e.g. “is empty” and “is not empty” do not require you to input a field value

• Third automation block - Action - the “Then do that” automation statement
  

  
  • Click on + Add action and choose between various actions
  • Set up your action depending on your selected action such as in the simple use case above the action Create record
  • Click + Add field - every field type has its own row. Add as many as you like
  • Set up the action condition to create the new record:
    • A field to be evaluated, at the first dropdown menu
    • An operator at the second dropdown menu depends on the selected field type i.e., Set value, Set options, Set date, etc
    • A field value - enter the field value for the selected field from the first dropdown

• Click on Create automation at the top right
  
  

Edit and manage trigger

The automation editor allows you to edit or manage triggers and holds all the important details about your specific automation. To open the editor - click the card with the title of your automation in the gallery of the automation center. From this point, you can choose between various options. Learn more about →

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New to workflow automation by Tape? Here’s a summary of what you need to know about automation.

To enable any type of automation, you’ll need to set up a trigger and one or more actions. Some automations also use filters.

• A trigger is an event that starts an automation. The “When this happens” statement. For example, “When a status changes” Learn more about → 1
• Filters are optional and start actions only if certain conditions are met. The “And if conditions are met” statement. For example, "only if the status changes to done" Learn more about →
• An action is an event the automation performs automatically after it is triggered. The “Then do that” statement. For example, “then send an email to a customer” Learn more about →