An action specifies what should happen in the given step. An Action can be, for example, creating a Task or Meeting, sending a Notification, converting a Lead, sending an Email, or sending a webhook.

Action selection

Individual actions can vary depending on the specific record type.

For all record types, you can add the following actions:

• Create new record
• Edit record
• Export system report
• Export custom template

Actions specific to different record types:

• Add new legal title for Account/Contact/Lead
• Edit Account address
• Retrieve record field from contact database or business
• Add Product to Deal/Quote/Sales Order

Other actions:

• Send webhook
• Send notification
• Send email notification
• Send mass email

Field settings for action

Value

An action does what the user chooses, as opposed to a condition that compares values in order to perform the next step. For both condition and action, we have either absolute or dynamic values. In some cases, it is possible to add a specific contextual record to the action (e.g., adding the original Lead to the Create new account action). In addition, we can also select functions in the Select values from previous steps list.

The function can have both existing and empty values.

There are 3 functions to choose from:

• Security Level (Owner) - select this function if you want to set the default Security Level for the record Owner. This is because the Owner may have a different Security Level set than the Shared Security Level when creating a record (e.g., a Meeting).

• You can also get the Owner variable from the Lead from the previous Create new lead step from the list of values in the Owner field. The security level of the newly created phone call will be selected according to the default security level of the Owner (which is taken from the previous automation step).

• Transfer name from product or Transfer price from product - it is possible to transfer the name and price from the selected Product.

Example: if a specific Product is added to a Deal, the name and selling price are taken from this Product.

• It will be filled in from the record context - when you select a record, the function will be automatically added to those fields that are contextually linked to the record.

Example: when you select Phone Call, the function will be automatically added to the fields that are the record context (of the Phone Call), which can be an Account or a Deal. In a new Phone Call, you will then see both the Account and Deal record in the "Record Context" panel.

Automation examples for selected actions

Example: When the status of a Sales Order is changed, the exported Custom Template is saved as an attachment and an email notification is sent to the Sales Order owner.

• We selected the trigger to be Sales order status is changed.
• We set the condition for the Sales order status change to be from Passed to Accepted.

• We selected the action Export custom template for sales order. In the Sales Order field, we added a variable that will pre-populate the order values from step 1.
  

• And finally, we added the action Send email notification.
• We set the following:
  
  • The Sender and Recipient will be the Sales Order Owner from Step 1. The email will be sent from our email address no-reply@raynetcrm.com.
  • What the Subject line of the email will be. In our case, it will be the text description + Code + Subject of the Sales Order.
  • To the Message field, we added our own text along with values that will be filled out automatically - the Code, sales order Subject, and Export name.
  • And the last thing we added is the Output template to the File field, so that the owner can download it if necessary.

Example: When a quote is accepted, a webhook is sent.

When a Quote is accepted, a Webhook is sent that displays a list of the fields (attributes) we are tracking.

• We selected the trigger to be Quote status is changed.
• We set the conditions to be:
  
  • Status is changed from Draft to Accepted
  • The final price that first was over $50,000 is changed to "price is filled in, in $"

• We created a Webhook for the automation action. Only administrators can create Webhooks.

• In the Webhook field, we selected the Webhook, specifically, the Webhook Quote accepted. Then continued on by selecting the data to be sent. Into the Key field, the field name was added and into the field next to in, the variable.