Differences Between Automations Pro & Automations
Introduction
This article explores the distinctions between Automations Pro and Automations, focusing on three key aspects: the ability to start trigger events, the ability to perform actions, and feature limitations.
Difference
- ☑️: indicates partial support for features
- ✅: indicates full support for all features
- ❌: indicates no support for features
Type | Feature | Automations | Automations Pro | |
Ability to Start Trigger Events | ||||
Form Trigger (Data Change) | Trigger when adding records | ✅ | ✅ | |
Trigger when updating records | ✅ | ✅(Trigger Automations Pro when any fields or any specified fields are updated.) | ||
Trigger when deleting records | ✅ | ✅ | ||
Form Trigger (Workflow Change) | Trigger when workflows flow to next node | ❌ | ✅(Trigger Automations Pro when you submit or return workflows at a specified field.) | |
Trigger when workflows end | ❌ | ✅ | ||
Scheduled Trigger | Trigger based on custom time | ☑️(Only trigger a plugin at a scheduled time) | ✅ | |
Trigger based on Date&Time field | ❌ | ✅ | ||
Triggered by HTTP | Trigger when the specified URL receives third-party data. | ❌ | ✅ | |
Button Trigger | Trigger when clicking custom buttons | ❌ | ✅ | |
Choose Multiple Triggers | You can choose multiple trigger events. When any of the events occurs, automations will run. | ☑️(Only support events, including records addition or update.) | ✅ | |
Trigger Linkage | Tigger other automations | ✅(Enabled for all by default; no trigger rules; it can only trigger other Automations) | ✅You can set the rules:
Note: Automations and Automations Pro do not form trigger linkage. | N |
Ability to Perform Actions | ||||
Add Record | Add one record | ✅ | ✅ | |
Add multiple records based on multiple records | ❌ | ✅ | ||
Add one/multiple record(s) based on a subform | ✅ | ✅ | ||
Update Record | Update one/multiple record(s) | ✅ | ✅ | |
Update records in the current form | ☑️(Update form fields only. Note that the trigger events cannot be the same as actions.) | ✅ | ||
Update form records based on a subform | ✅ | ✅ | ||
Update/add subform records based on a subform | ✅ | ✅(Update a subform with multiple records. Automations Pro supports more options for setting filter conditions.) | ||
Update/add subform records based on a form | ☑️ (Only support updating subform records.) | ✅ | ||
Delete Record | Delete a row in a subform | ❌ | ❌(Do not delete a subform record separately.) | |
Delete one/multiple record(s) | ✅ | ✅ | ||
Delete form records based on a subform | ☑️ | ☑️ | ||
Query Record(s) | Query one/multiple record(s) in a form | ❌ | ✅ | |
Add Path | Perform actions based on different conditions | ❌ | ✅ | |
Add Formula | Perform calculations on existing records, which can be used for subsequent actions, such as adding/updating records. | ❌ | ✅(Perform calculations via the Add Formula node.) | |
Add Plugin | Call a plugin | ✅ | ✅(Call a plugin via the Add Plugin node.) | |
Feature Limitation | ||||
Number of Action Nodes | The number of action nodes that can be processed for each trigger | 5 | 100 | |
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Trigger Limit | Some operations do not trigger automations. |
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Data Limit | The number of records that can be processed for each trigger |
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