Hey all, I’m excited to announce that database change triggers are open for public beta testing. They are available on (non-legacy) Person plans and above. If your app is eligible for them, then on the Backend workflows page, you will see: [database trigger] Special thanks to @anna4 , who built …

Thank you @anna4 & @josh :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire:

Is this to say we can implement Excel like functionality? Say I have a simple shopping cart example… if the quantity in cart changes, then trigger this workflow to update the total price to equal the new quantity * price? … but also it could be way more complicated than that.?. like I could instead…

I guess it depends on how fast the database accepts and processes the data. If someone changes cart items super quick, will it get confused?

Love this feature, @josh ! Tons of use cases for it and have been experimenting. A tip for anyone who may not know about it (or forgot about it), use the App Search tool to go through any endpoint you want to convert to a trigger and find each place in your app where you are scheduling that endpoint…

Agreed, this feature is proving super handy and the fact we can reference both the old and new version of the data entry is really useful. Great job guys on this one. Probably a good call with the rename btw: [image] Cheers

Just wanna ask a question, is this good for making some "acitivity log? system? like, when a data is changed, trigger “create new activity log”

@shu.teopengco The short answer is yes, this would make the perfect companion to achieve such a feature like an activity, notification or change log system.

[Public Beta] Database change triggers

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StevenM March 5, 2020, 11:26pm 7

Great news. One thing @josh you might want to look adding some paragraph breaks to the manual text Just to make it more UI friendly!

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