Automations

Automations do work for you: when something happens, then do one or more things. Open them from the Automations button under any table.

Triggers — when…

• A row is created in this table.
• A field changes — any change, or only when it changes to (or away from) a specific value, e.g. "Status changes to Done".
• On a schedule — N days before or after a date field, checked once a day (e.g. "3 days before Due date").

Actions — then…

• Update a field on the row — to a fixed value, or copied from another field.
• Create a row in another table, filling its fields the same way.
• Send an email or Send an SMS — the recipient and message can be fixed or copied from the row (e.g. email the address in the "Customer email" field). Delivery goes through your own provider account, added once in your workspace's Settings (email works with Resend, SMS with Twilio) — BaseBlock never supplies or shares keys between businesses.
• Post a notification — shows in the workspace's notification bell for the whole team, instantly and with nothing external involved.
• Call a webhook — send the row to any URL, for connecting tools like n8n, Zapier, and Make.

Automations can chain: if one automation's field update matches another automation's trigger, the second one fires too — follow-up automations, with built-in protection against infinite loops.