Concatenate Connected Data

This action will concatenate information from connected records.

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With the action “Concatenate Connected Data”, you can concatenate information from connected records automatically when the chosen trigger is activated.

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Trigger -> Action

The most important thing about a trick is understanding its conditions and actions. They have a simple generic structure:

When the condition (trigger) happens, then do (action).
Trigger -> Action

How to create

You just have to click on the "+ Automations" icon on the upper right corner of the screen to open the No code automations panel, and then on the "+ Create new automation" button:

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Select the trigger of your choice to activate the action, then select the "Concatenate Connected Data" action, and fill in the options:

  • Choose table to get data from:
    • Select the table that has a connected field to the record you wish to update
  • Choose field to get data from:
    • Choose the field that holds the data that will be concatenated
  • Choose the connected field:
    • Choose the field that points to the record that will be updated
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  • Choose table to be updated:
    • Choose the table that holds the record that will be updated
  • Choose field to be updated(optional):
    • Choose field to receive the concatenated data. If no field is chosen, record won't be updated and concatenated data will be returned for posterior actions.
  • Choose record to be updated/used to aggregate:
    • Write or select the id of the record to be updated
  • Write separator:
    • Write text to be inserted between connected data (example: "," will put a comma before each data input).

Click on save

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