Workflows
When something happens, do one thing — like emailing subscribers when a story goes live.
Workflows are on the Pro plan.
Start from a ready one#
Under Explore workflows, press Add on one of these and adjust it:
- Email the list when a story goes live
- Welcome a new subscriber
- A digest every morning and Weekly newsletter
- Tell the desk a story published and Tell the desk the ePaper is out
- Tag new subscribers
Build your own#
- Press New workflow and give it a Workflow name.
- Under When, choose what starts it.
- Under Then, choose what it does.
- Press Create workflow.
- Press Enable — new workflows are saved paused, so nothing goes out before you're ready.
| When | Then |
|---|---|
| An article is published | Send an email to subscribers |
| A subscriber joins | Notify the team (owners and admins) |
| An ePaper edition is published | Tag the subscriber |
| On a schedule — every day, week or month, at a time you choose | Wait before the next action |
Writing the email#
- Write the Email subject and Email content.
- Include the latest stories adds a list of 3, 5, 8 or 10 stories from the last day, week or month, where you put
{{latest_articles}}. A quiet week sends a shorter email; if nothing was published, that part is left out. {{latest_article}}puts in the story that was just published.- Every email has an unsubscribe link at the bottom.
Running workflows#
The list shows each workflow with Pause or Enable, Edit, Runs (when it last ran and what happened) and Delete. Filter by Enabled, Paused or trigger.