Differences Between Automations Pro & Automations

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.

❌

✅

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

Nested Loops

/

Trigger Limit

Some operations do not trigger automations.

Data Limit

The number of records that can be processed for each trigger