Triggers

You can use Triggers (or conditions) to prevent the execution of a scheduled job. For example, if you had a query that was scheduled to run every 5 minutes and send an email, you could add a trigger that must be met before the email is actually sent. There are three types of triggers:

Add a trigger

  • "Block has rows" checks if another block is currently returning rows.

    Check if another block is returning rows

  • "Block value changed" will check if one of the columns in another block has changed since the last run.

  • "Block value changed by…​" allows you to define a custom JavaScript Conditional (ternary) operator. The current and previous results are available to the operator as cur and prev.

    For example, if you had a column in the trigger block called "users" and you wanted to check if users increased 10% since the last run, you could use the ternary:

    cur.users > prev.users * 1.1 ? true : false
You can only use blocks that are titled and return exactly one row for the "trigger block".
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