“Table record update.Fields” returns an empty array. Seems broken. If I am misunderstanding how this is to be used can someone point me in the right direction? There seems to be very little documentation regarding the usage of expressions in the Automation Editor. I have an automation that fires o…

Did you try what happens if you dont use TOTEXT() but @Table record updated.Fields + '' instead? Usually +'' should result in a list of words without " " and [ ] (top one on screenshot) and TOTEXT() includes " " and [ ] (bottom one on screenshot… [image]

Hi Thorsten, Thanks for the tip, I’ll try it, but the post is not about removing the square brackets, it’s about the lack of values. There should be at least one value in the array if the automation is firing.

[image] eric.alwine: it’s about the lack of values. Yes I got that. I was just wondering if the is in the function or if there is really data missing. So I would just try if you get any data with +'' The rest is only for understanding the difference between the two. If you get data with +'' …

I’ve updated the automation to use the concatenation method instead and it returns empty.

Hi Eric, The Tulip Team looked into this and it appears when we added column filtering to Automations recently @Table record updated.Fields was unintentionally added, even though it does not contain anything (hence why you are seeing an empty array). We will remove this to prevent confusion in the…

Hi Beth, That’s incredibly disappointing. Given that the Automation trigger itself is capable of detecting which columns had changes it seems a natural progression to leverage that same concept in a task. We were counting on getting multiple values when more than one qualifying field is changed. U…

did you end up making this into a product suggestion? I’ve run into this same problem today where i want my second action to be a condition based on the value of updated fields. @Beth could you make this into a product suggestion?

Automation Expression Editor Updated Fields Empty Array

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@eric.alwine Would a feature like this help? Autoload created/updated record in automation

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Automation Expression Editor Updated Fields Empty Array

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