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VivekVishwanat2's avatar
VivekVishwanat2
Qrew Cadet
5 years ago

Can Change in formula field trigger a Notification?

Hi,  I have Created a Notification field, which has to be triggered every day. So I created a Today() field(a Formula-date field). --> Whenever Today() field Changes, trigger a Notification. But, ...
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MarkShnier__You's avatar
MarkShnier__You
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Right, an email Notification will only Fire when a record is edited not via the passage of time or the change in a  lookup or Summary field. 

Instead, you will need to make a Subscription report of qualifying records to be delivered daily, weekly or monthly. You can also use Reminders, which also will be evaluated each day..

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SrinathM_R2
Qrew Member
4 years ago
Hi Mark, 

I have a similar situation where in when a formula checkbox is checked a notification needs to be sent out. This formula compares 2-time stamps in the same table and if the duration is greater than certain time the checkbox is check and I need to send a notification during that time. What can I do to achieve that?

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    MarkShnier__You
    Qrew Champion
    4 years ago
    QuickBase cannot natively send out email notifications based on formula Fields which changed due to the passage of time. 

    The only native tool we have in QuickBase which can run things based on a certain time of day is a pipeline. You could probably contrive a pipe line that would run every hour (Well in fact, you would have to create your perfect pipeline and then copy it eight or nine times to cover every hour of the day)  And this would then need to update records which are past due in order to trigger an email.

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      SrinathM_R2
      Qrew Member
      4 years ago
      Thanks Mark. But that will be a lot of step run consumption for us since most of our activities are short term.

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        MarkShnier__You
        Qrew Champion
        4 years ago
        Well QuickBase does not natively support Subscriptions based on the time of day.  I guess that you will need to calculate how many step runs would be used if it runs every hours for 10 hours a day, for example.

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