Reply Email to Trigger / Continue Workflow

[shane6836]

Hey everyone - have a workflow that is triggered from a webhook when a folder name is updated in Sharepoint (this is captured in Make and the data sent to Pabbly via a Webhook - Pabbly then goes and updates specific data across multiple places).

The issue is that we have discovered a couple of things that end up triggering this that are not really possible to circumvent.

Ideally, I would like a step in Pabbly where an email is sent to me directly to alert me of the workflow being initiated and essentially asking for approval to proceed (so when it is triggered as a result of something else we don't want to trigger it, I can chose to stop the workflow at that point.

Anyone have any ideas around how we could achieve this? My thoughts would be that the workflow would send me an email, and I would reply either "Yes" or "No" to tell it what to do - if needed, I could split the workflow into two different ones - one to catch the Make webhook and do the prep work, and then send me the email, and then a second workflow to capture my response and proceed accordingly

 

[Preeti Paryani]

Hello @shane6836,

Thank you for sharing the details.

This functionality is not natively supported in Pabbly Connect; however, you can achieve a similar result using a two-workflow approach as a workaround.

Workflow 1 – Logging and Awaiting Approval

• Trigger this workflow via the webhook from Make when the folder name is updated in SharePoint.
• Add an action step that records all the relevant information in a Google Sheet, including a blank column titled "Approval" or "Status".
• This workflow stops after the data is recorded in the sheet.

You can then review the sheet and manually enter your approval by typing "Approve" or "Reject" in the designated column.

Workflow 2 – Processing Based on Approval

• Set up a second workflow that uses Google Sheets as the trigger.
• This workflow will be triggered only when an entry is made in the approval column.
• If the status is marked as "Approve", the workflow proceeds with the required actions across your connected platforms.

This setup gives you manual control over whether the next steps in your workflow are executed, and helps prevent unintended triggers from moving forward automatically.

 

[shane6836]

This is excellent - thanks!!!

Knew there would be a way, but just couldn't come up with something

 

[Preeti Paryani]

Hello @shane6836.

We are glad that we could have helped.