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Conditional Email based on field value for the first update

By: Jean Padgett | Asked: 09/01/2024
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Jean Padgett asked 3 months ago
Hi, When sending an email after a form is updated is there a way to add conditional logic to only send the email the first time a field is updated?  My scenario is we have a field that we update based on an event.  When that field is updated I would like to get an email.  I have that setup now but any updates to the form after the initial update the email is sent.  I would like to receive the email only the first time the field is updated. Any thoughts? Regards  
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Rob LeVineRob LeVine answered 3 months ago
There are different variations on the following, so this is just an idea as a starting point. Add a hidden field and default it to 0. Each time you update, increment the field value by 1. In your email notification, add a conditional that the hidden value equals 1. That way it'll fire only after it's been updated once.
Jean Padgett replied 3 months ago

This is an interesting way to handle something like this and I believe I can come up with a variation of this that will work for my situation. Thanks so much for the response

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