Automatically launch a process via email
You can launch a process automatically by sending an email to a specific email address.
- To find this address. Go to the edit view of the template you want to add a trigger and select Other options in the triggers section.
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Then, select the Via inbound email option. You should be able to see the email address you have to mail in order to launch your process!
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You can also capture the email body and attachments into a kick-off form field - illustrated on the trigger itself. If the two specially named kick-off fields do not exist - you will be invited to create them with a link named “CREATE IT NOW”
More details on launching via email
Tallyfy makes launching a process via email super simple. Just send an email to a specific address, and the process will start automatically!
The email address format is:
bot+[TemplateID]-launch@tallyfy.com
To find the TemplateID, check the URL when editing your template:
There’s a number of important things to keep in mind:
- If the organization ID doesn’t exist, we’ll send you a failure message.
- If the template ID doesn’t exist, we’ll also send you a failure message.
- Make sure the FROM address matches the email address of a member in the organization. We do this for security reasons - non-members can’t launch processes.
- If the template requires kick-off form fields, you’ll need to fill them out manually. We’ll send you a failure message if you don’t.
- The subject line of your email will become the name of the process.
You can even include the email body and attachments as kick-off form fields.
Adding a comment to a task via an email response
When it comes to replying to a task via email, simply add your comment to the body of the email.
Tallyfy will automatically add it as a comment to the task.
The format of the FROM address should be this:
bot+TASKID-comment-task@tallyfy.com
The body of the email is used as the body of your comment, not the subject line.