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Episode 5 — Automations & approvals

Use a live automation end to end — read the triage workflow, trigger a real run from the board, debug the run that failed, and approve an outbound email yourself.

2 min read

By the end of this episode you'll have used an automation for real: you read the installed triage workflow before trusting it, create a task and watch it get scored and assigned on camera, follow that run through its journal, open the one that failed and trace it to its step — and approve an outbound customer email with your own click, then find that decision in the audit log seconds later. Step by step, at a pace you can follow along with.

Episode 5 — Automations & approvals (6:20, captions available)

What the episode shows

AtScene
0:27The job: a board of unowned tasks
0:48The catalog, and what a bundle's preview panel tells you
1:44Reading the workflow: trigger, score step, schema
2:45The tester — and the honest way to trigger a run
3:04A real task, created and auto-assigned on camera
3:58The red run, diagnosed down to its step
4:40The approval card: read, adjust, submit
5:32The decision in the audit log

Where to go next

Automation concepts and the catalog cover the bundles; the editor, triggers, and execution logs go deep on what you saw. For the card itself, read approval concepts and approvals in workflows — then build one with the editor tutorial a workflow with approvals.

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