Action that directly triggers script?

[RedVox]

I have a list of jobs, I'd like the user to be able to select multiple jobs from the list then press a button to have an optimized route created and shown.  My current challenge is creating a trigger that will launch a script with a list of the jobs to be included in the route. 

I suppose I can add "trigger" columns to the table, set them to yes and then define a bot that looks for the change in trigger fields, but that seems really inelegant for my needs.  I'd prefer an approach that simply passes an array that represents the selected rows to a script.  Is that possible?

[Marc_Dillon · Accepted solution]

No that's not possible. I typically use a 2-step setup for such workflows:

1. One action to "flag" several records (by setting a value to a [flag] column)

2. An action that you only click on a single record which triggers the bot, that in turn SELECTs all flagged records.

[RedVox]

Thanks Marc.  Well, that stands out to me as a worthy feature request!

[Marc_Dillon]

It has been previously requested.