Operations automations
Chase the approvals sitting in your inbox
Finds the approval requests from the last two days and posts them to Slack so nothing waits on one person.
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Free, and no card. It runs for real, five times.
What it does on a run
- 1Find what is waiting on a decision
- 2Make the queue visible to more than one person
When it runs
Every weekday at 9am. You can change the schedule in plain words after you start it.
What it needs
GmailSlackConnected once, then reused by every automation that needs them.
Where it stops
It halts before the irreversible part and shows you what it is about to do. You see the message, the recipient and the data it read, and nothing is sent until you say so. Once you trust it, you can tell it to stop asking.
Free, and no card. It runs for real, five times.
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