Hi. We have an Automation where an ontology Action modifies a subset of the input object set. After the action completes, we want to send a single notification to a few users with details about the modified subset. Since Actions cannot return Notification, we are wondering if this is doable?
More details: Our Automation uses a single effect (Action). The action (using a function) iterates through the input object set (say 100 objects), and modifies a smaller subset (say 5 objects). As part of the Automation we want to send out a single email with info about the count of objects modified, and high-level info about the 5 objects modified (e.g. name, status, etc). So looking for a way to communicate the result set modified from the Action to the Notification, or a way to add notifications to an Action.
One way of solving this is to have a second automation to trigger upon modification of the object set and then have a “Group by properties” notification being generated. This may require that you add something like a “batch ID” property to group by on if you want to make sure only those 5 are captured by the notification (in case the previous automation returns multiple batches concurrently or within short timeframes).
To monitor the automations in tandem you could explore using Autopilot.
Thanks. Yeah, I was also thinking about adding a property, but then I don’t think there is a way to reset that property value in the 2nd automation (the notification part). Maybe if I add a new date property (e.g. “updated_at”), run the 1st part (action) daily, and the 2nd part (notification) daily, and the 2nd part can look and notify on objects where “updated_at” was today only. In my case running these daily is OK, but would be great if there was a first-class way to be able to use the output of the action in the notification.
