Automation Hub FAQs

Automations help you to perform repetitive tasks without human intervention. You can set up an automation using various third party applications. For example, you can notify your team via an email whenever an entry is created in your stack.

To set up an automation, you need to configure your trigger and action connectors. To learn more, refer to the Create Automation step in the Get Started with Automations document.

Connectors are a combination of Triggers and Actions events. When a trigger event is executed, the action connector performs the defined steps. Refer to Automation Hub Connectors to get started.

Trigger connectors are conditions that help set off an automation whenever the selected event is executed. Action connectors is the action performed when a trigger event is executed. For example, an automation is set up to send a slack message (action event) whenever an entry is created (trigger event) in Contentstack.

You can configure only one trigger event in a particular automation. You can configure multiple actions for a single automation. For example, you can set up an automation to perform end to end translation when an entry is created/updated in Contentstack. For this, you need to configure different action connectors to carry out the translation process. To learn more, refer to our End to End Translation using Smartling example.

You can view the logs for your automation in the Execution Log section. This is useful for checking the status of your automations. To learn more, refer to our documentation on Execution Log.

You can view all the connected apps for your project in the Connected Apps section. You can check the authentication status of an app or re-authorize an app. To learn more, refer to our documentation on Connected Apps.

Once you create an Automation, the list of existing automation appears in the Automations sidebar. To edit an automation, hover over it and click on the pen icon to edit the automation. Refer to our documentation on Edit Automation Details.

To delete an existing automation, click on the delete icon to permanently delete the automation. Refer to our documentation on Delete Automation.

Click on the three ellipses visible on the header of a step, you will see an option to rename the step. Add a suitable name for the step and save it. Refer to our documentation on Rename Step.

To re-authorize a connected app, follow the steps given below:

1. In the Connected Apps section, select the app that you want to re-authorize.
2. Hover over a connection and click on the Reauthorize icon.
3. Change necessary permissions and click on the Authorize button.