Trigger an automation when a custom field is changed to a specific value in ClickUp

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Hi there :wave:

I’m using ClickUp and Make to manage a Discord Community. We have a ClickUp Task for every person applying to the Community. When they’re reviewed they receive the right Discord Roles and are invited to a specific Google Agenda recurring event.

Currently, i’m using “Watch Tasks” as a trigger which i limited to the one list that contains all my members. Every 15 minutes, Make checks if a any change has been made within those Tasks.

My issue is I only need Make to take action when a specific custom field is set to a specific value. What happens now is that, whatever other action i perform on a ClickUp Task within that list, it triggers my whole automation, and redo things it already has done (like attributing roles, and inviting people to the event)

I end up with users complaning they received multiple invitations to the same event. I also am burning my monthly operations. :weary:

Is there any way to trigger an automation when a custom field is changed ? That’s like a basic trigger in ClickUp but i can’t find out how to do it in Make. :disappointed_relieved:

Thanks for any help you could provide :pray:

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I think you’ll just have to create a filter immediately proceeding the trigger. That’s what filters are for.

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That’s the solution i have now.

I watch Tasks. If custom field is set to “accepted”, it goes through the process.

My issue with that solution is that every time I make any change on the card, it checks the value of the custom field — which is still “accepted” — so it does the whole process over again anyway. That’s why i was looking for "trigger scenario only when field changes to X

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Hi Guerin,

you can setup an automation in ClickUp to call a webhook when your custom field changes to the specific value. Then change your Make scenario to start with the Custom Webhook module instead. This will save a lot of operations as it will only trigger when you need it to.

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Oh.

That would do the trick :open_mouth:

Thanks !