Automate Email on Workflow Status Change
Hello,
We have a request form, which is being used for hiring staff. It follows a workflow and our HR department shortlists candidates using the workflow status dropdown list. We want to inform un-successful candidates (i.e. not short-listed) via email automatically as soon as not-shortlisted status is selected from the workflow status. So is this possible to automate this process?
Thanks,
Sajid
Wrike's automation engine does not have a way to generate an email to an external party automatically. (Email can be sent to people following the task, depending on the automation action and their own notification settings, but I don't think that addresses your issue.)
The only way I can think to do this is by using a secondary service that is subscribed to a Wrike webhook and is capable of analyzing tasks to determine of the conditions are correct to send the email to the unsuccessful applicant. (The secondary service must also generate the email, of course).
Whether or not this is more efficient/cost-effective than creating and assigning a "send rejection email" task is up to you...
Hi! Thanks for your kind response. Can you please explain a bit more on using a secondary service with Wrike web-hook - i.e. which web-hook and secondary service work for my use-case. I want a solution, so kindly help me.
Best regards
Hello Sajid Yousaf, our Support team is in touch with you via email in relation to your question here. Please let me know if I can help you with anything else🙋🏻♀️
Hi everyone, opening this old thread to see if anything has changed about the original question?
Is it possible to send an automated email to external party based on the task status change?
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Hi everyone! opening this old thread to see if anything has changed about the original question?
Is it possible to send an automated email to external party based on the task status change? Or Is there a way we could automate a message on Wrike to let the external party knows?
This could also be very useful, especially if we want to send a survey for user experience when a task is complete.
I'd like to add another use case to this thread:
I'd like an automated email to be sent to a specific email address when status changes to a specific status. It seems like there could be an automation where the action is to send an email to XYZ email address that is input by the person creating the automation.
Thank you for sharing your use case Anna Schild, we'll make our team aware of it!
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@... for the automation rules, can you apply the notification to internal user, seen in your screenshot, to a specific workflow and within that workflow to multiple statuses?
Hi Brittany Shuler, welcome to the forums 👋
Yes, you can choose workflows when setting up the rule and then chose multiple statuses by clicking on the checkboxes next to them:
I hope this helps 🙂
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