What Are Automation Triggers?
Triggers are the backbone of automation in Taskade. They are predefined conditions that, when met, initiate a series of automated actions within. Essentially, they're the "if" part of an "if this, then that" equation, monitoring for specific events or changes.
💡 Note: New to automations? Check the Getting Started guide first.
Available Triggers
Here are the triggers you can use in your workflows:
💡 Note: All Triggers which are not "Instant" trigger at 15-minute intervals.
Taskade Triggers
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
Triggers actions through requests received from external services. | |
Enables AI Agents to optionally run actions during a conversation. | |
Triggers when a form is used. | |
Task Completed | Activates when a task is marked as completed. |
Task Assigned | Triggers when a task is assigned to you or a team member inside a project. |
Task Due | Triggers when a task with a due date is due. |
New Comment | Triggers when a new comment is made on tasks. |
New Due Date | Triggers when a new due date is added to a task. |
Triggers when a custom field is updated. | |
Triggers when the public agent conversation comes to an end. | |
Schedule | Schedules the automation to run every hour, day, week, or month. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
Event Scheduled | Triggers when a new event is scheduled in Calendly. |
Event Canceled | Triggers when a scheduled event is canceled. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
New Message | Triggers when a new message is submitted. |
New Channel | Triggers when a new channel is created. |
New Mention | Triggers when the Taskade Bot name is mentioned. |
New Reaction | Triggers when a new reaction is added to a message. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
New Submission | Activates upon receiving a new form submission in Typeform. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
New Email | Kicks off actions when a new email arrives in Gmail. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
New Row | Triggers when a new row is added to Google Sheets. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
New Response | Initiates a process with a new response in Google Forms. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
New Folder | Triggers when a new folder is created in a Google Drive. |
New File | Triggers when a new file is added to a Google Drive. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
New Form Submission | Initiates an action with a new form submission in Webflow. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
New Deal | Triggers when a new HubSpot CRM deal is found. |
New Contact | Triggers when a new HubSpot CRM contact is found. |
Deal Stage Reached | Triggers when a HubSpot CRM deal enters a selected stage. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
New Video | Triggers when a new video is added to a YouTube channel. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
New Item Added | Triggers when a new item is added to an RSS feed. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
New Item Added | Triggers when a new message is sent to a Discord channel. |
⚡️ Trigger | 🔤 Description |
New or Updated Event | Triggers when an event in a Google Calendar is created or updated. |
What Are Actions?
While triggers are the starting point in Taskade's automation, actions are the steps that follow. They are the "then" in the "if this, then that" automation sequence. When a trigger's conditions are met, actions are executed to perform tasks automatically.
New to automations? Check the Getting Started guide first.
Available Actions
Here are the actions you can use in your workflows.
Taskade Actions
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Create Project | Sets up a new project in your workspace/folder. |
Adds a new task to an existing project. | |
Uses a pre-defined or custom template. | |
Move Task | Moves a task to a different space. |
Assign Task | Assigns a task to someone. |
Uses AI to answer questions. | |
Uses AI to generate content or responses. | |
Automatically provides AI-generated responses. | |
Uses a custom AI agent to respond to a query. | |
Uses a custom AI agent command. | |
Transcribes knowledge and adds it as knowledge to an agent. | |
Structures the output of agent replies. | |
Extract the contents of a web page. | |
Convert a source file into text. | |
Turn a YouTube video into text. | |
Adds an URL to the media tab. | |
Makes an API request to an endpoint. | |
Iterates data tasks. | |
Performs actions only when the data meets a certain condition. | |
Creates different paths within your workflow, depending on certain conditions. | |
| Updates custom fields within projects. |
Search Web | Searches the web for information to add to a project or for the AI to analyze. |
Find Task(s) | Searches for tasks within projects.
This action is compatible with loops. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Send Channel Message | Posts a message to a selected channel. |
Send Direct Message | Sends a personal message to a user. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Send email | Sends an email through Gmail to a specified recipient. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Trash file | Moves a file to the trash in your drive. |
Duplicate file | Duplicates a file from Google Drive. Returns the ID of the new file. |
Create new folder | Creates a folder in your Google Drive. |
Create new file | Creates a new text file from input text. |
Search | Searches a Google Drive folder. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Insert Row | Adds a new row to a Google Sheets document. |
Delete Row | Deletes a row in a Google Sheets document. |
Update Row | Updates a row in a Google Sheets document. |
Get Row | Retrieves a row in a Google Sheets document. |
Find Row(s) | Retrieves specific rows from a Google Sheet based on defined criteria.
This action can be used with loops. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Create Document | Creates a document on Google Docs. |
Append Text | Appends text to a Google doc. |
Find Document | Searches for a Google doc by name. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Delete event | Deletes an event from Google Calendar. |
Create Quick Even | Creates and even with a start time when the action is run, with a duration of 1 hour and a notification 10 minutes before. |
Create Event | Creates a new Google Calendar event. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Add contact | Creates a new contact in Mailchimp. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Create post | Publishes a new post on WordPress. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Send SMS | Sends out a text message via Twilio. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Create New Contact | Creates a new contact in HubSpot CRM. |
Create New Deal | Creates a new deal in HubSpot CRM. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Create Reply | Creates a reply to a post on X/Twitter. |
Create Post | Creates a new post on X/Twitter. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Create Share Update | Publishes a post to your LinkedIn profile. |
Create Company Update | Publishes a post to your business/company LinkedIn page. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Create Channel | Creates a new channel. |
Send Channel Message | Sends a message to a channel. |
Send Chat Message | Sends a message in an existing chat. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Send Message | Sends a message to a discord channel. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
Create Page Post | Posts updates, announcements, or any content directly to your Facebook Page |
Create Photo Post | Shares photo content on your Facebook Page to capture attention and boost interaction with your followers. |
⚙️ Action | 🔤 Description |
(Action) Send Message | Sends a text message to a specified contact or group on WhatsApp. |
(Action) Send Template Message | Sends a pre-designed template message for consistent communication. |
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