Manual trigger of workflows

[Viktor]

As the title suggests, I was wondering if it’s possible to manually trigger a workflow, perhaps through an action? I couldn’t seem to find anything about it.
I have a few workflows in my app that generates PDFs from different tables and rows, and it would be great if it was possible to create a new PDF manually in case one should get deleted (so in fact I don’t necessarily need to trigger the workflow, but it doesn’t seem to be possible to save files with actions). I only found one other thread here regarding manual triggers, but the questions wasn’t answered there.

Thank you in advance!
Best regards

[Aleksi · Accepted solution]

Hi, yes it’s possible. One workaround is if you add a DateTime field to your table and the action will write NOW() into this column. Then you can write a condition rule like AND(ISNOTBLANK([PdfSent]),[_THISROW_BEFORE].[PdfSent]<>[_THISROW_AFTER].[PdfSent])

[Viktor]

Thanks, I’ll check it out. However, currently, the workflow is triggered by adding a row to the table. I assume I’ll have to change this to adds AND updates? I also assume I’ll have to give [PdfSent] an initial value since it will block the first add trigger if it’s blank

[Austin]

Could copy your workflow and make that second one for the manual trigger while leaving the first working workflow alone.

[Viktor]

True, that would of course also work

[Aleksi]

Yes, an initial value would be a good approach. If you don’t want to do that, you could add an OR() statement like… OR(NOT(IN([Key],TableName[Key])),…)

[Phil]

Aleksi is correct.

Also see topic “Sending Email from an Action Button” in this article https://help.appsheet.com/en/articles/961707-workflow

[Viktor]

I gave the [PdfSent] column an initial value and went with the condition Aleksi suggested. Thank you for your help!