# Automation - Machine Attribute triggers

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/automation-machine-attribute-triggers/9390>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 26, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/automation-machine-attribute-triggers/9390 "2023-09-26T14:50:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![epackirisamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/838e76/32.png) [@epackirisamy](https://community.tulip.co/u/epackirisamy)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/automation-machine-attribute-triggers/9390/1 "2023-09-26T14:50:48Z")

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I would like to update a table record by using Automation (Machine Attribute triggers). Is that possible ? When I chose Machine Attribute trigger, it does not allow table details to be mentioned in a block to proceed further. Tulip university has a training in which the machine attribute triggers changes in other machine attributes. But there is no more training video of what I want.

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**Author:** ![jjj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/jjj/32/4542_2.png) [@jjj](https://community.tulip.co/u/jjj)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/automation-machine-attribute-triggers/9390/2 "2023-09-26T21:00:36Z")

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That’s because you haven’t selected a table to get from yet. Or are you wanting the Table Name for the Get Table Record block to be defined by a variable?

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**Author:** ![epackirisamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/838e76/32.png) [@epackirisamy](https://community.tulip.co/u/epackirisamy)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 9:15am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/automation-machine-attribute-triggers/9390/3 "2023-09-27T09:15:05Z")

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The table detail is entered already. I am aiming to update a Tulip table record if a machine attribute is changed (there is a condition in between to check whether the record needs to be updated or not, but I haven’t linked that block now, because I need to know how to pull a record and update it when a machine attribute is triggered)

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**Author:** ![epackirisamy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/838e76/32.png) [@epackirisamy](https://community.tulip.co/u/epackirisamy)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/automation-machine-attribute-triggers/9390/5 "2023-09-27T15:05:54Z")

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I achieved this by using connector function to get the record ID and store the value what I wanted

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**Author:** ![John\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@John\_L](https://community.tulip.co/u/John_L)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 10:20am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/automation-machine-attribute-triggers/9390/6 "2023-09-28T10:20:17Z")

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I also think it would also be a great addition to automations if there was support to use expressions and also to insert a record into a table without needing the record id (some sort of auto incrementing id)