topic Using Data Activator to alert (remind) users in Activator

Using Data Activator to alert (remind) users

Steven-conance — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:56:52 GMT

We're investigating the possibilities to use Data Activator as an alerting/reminder tool, to notifiy users to take certain actions. For example to validate time sheets sent it by their team members, or notify that the users' own time sheet is missing.

However the tutorials seem to focus on sending alerts to 1 person, and don't provide explanations on how to set it up like we're aming for; a trigger on the team member level, and an alert to (only) the same team member, and his manager. And of course we're not planning to create a trigger+alert for every single user.

What are your thoughts on the possibilities?

I'm quite sure it should be do-able with a custom action; a Power Automate apply to each like flow. But I'd rather keep all in one place and tool and fix everything in Data Activator

Re: Using Data Activator to alert (remind) users

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 01:56:20 GMT

Hi Steven-conance ,

You're right. You can create a flow in Power Automate that accepts parameters (e.g., team member and manager email addresses) from Data Activator and sends personalized alerts accordingly.

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Neeko Tang

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