Execute automation with reload automation for multiple apps

[davinamoriau]

Hello,

We are working with an automation to reload data in the app by clicking on button in sheet.
Button is set with action "Execute Automation".

Only we use this methode a lot so we created multiple similar procedures to start reload data of this app.

Now I was wondering if we can do this all in 1 automation instead of multiple automations.
My thought was trigger reload button and define variable in automation that check the app id and start reload procedure of that app. Is this something that is possible?

Can anybody help me?

Kind regards,

Davina

[J_Lindberg · Accepted solution]

Hello @davinamoriau , 

When configuring the button you select which automation to run.
Multiple apps can trigger the same automation.
In the automations "Do Reload" block you can add as "App Id" the value you get for App from the "Input" block. This would be different depending on which app triggers your automation:

Keep in mind that this approach for reloads will consume automation runs. An approach to avoid this could be to set the button's action to "Reload data".