This article covers how to creating a manual review processes that is required for an automation to run. This approach can be helpful for many workflows where having someone personally review a record before running an automation is desired.

Overview

In this article we'll apply this workflow to an example scenario where a marketing team wants to personally check that all invoice details for their contract writers are correct before sending them over to their accounting department. 

Here's a summary of the workflow we'll create for this hypothetical marketing team: 

1. Create a checkbox field to manually approve that the record is ready to be used in an automation
2. Configure a view to only show records with that field checked
3. Configure the automation to only run for records that appear in that view

Create a checkbox field

Start by adding a new checkbox field and naming it Approve automation. This field would be checked off after the relevant information for each contracted article is reviewed. 

Configure a view

Next, you'll need to setup a new filtered view that will be used to display only records that have Approve automation checked. 

As soon as that field is checked the record will filter into this view.

Choose a trigger

The next step is to setup an automation using the When a record enters a view trigger. Select the appropriate table and the Approved Timesheets view we just created. The automation will trigger (run) for every new record that is added to that view. As a reminder, records should only be added to that view once the Approve automation checkbox field is manually clicked.

Add an action

After you've configured and tested the trigger it's time to select an action. For more guidance on adding actions please see Creating an automation.