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Automator e-mail duplication (70+ times)

User: "Altair Forum User"
Altair Employee
Updated by Altair Forum User

The process below created over 70 messages to tell me (and the IT managers...) that the job started.  How do I keep that from repeating?

I brought in a standard process into the visual process section.  I set up a monitoring trigger and I wanted to notify our IT group that their job had started.  I tested the process, moving the timing of that opening message, until it provided just the one message.  However, upon live implementation, it created over 70 messages as it seemed to loop somehow before completing the process.  Thankfully, the rest of the process is working fine where it creates the reports, distributes them, moves the input file and provides the final message that the job has successfully completed.  I know it's a stupid question, but I'm still learning how to use the Automator (13.5) and visually, to me, it should provide just one sent message to notify the group a job has started.

 

Just as a side note... when migrating from Standard to Visual (to ensure the process happened in the necessary order), I did notice some differences in the file paths required.  When saving files based on keys, in Standard the destination folder would have a "/" at the end while the visual version made me remove it.  I was surprised that it was not a seamless transition from Standard to Visual and also that you can't migrate a visual process back to standard.  However, the changes necessary were minimal and as long as it works, I'm happy whether it's in visual or standard!

 

I appreciate this Community site... great shares.

 

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