Get values for the field using webhook

Dmitry Alabyan

Greetings, community!
I am searching for a solution to get all the option configured for a custom field via REST API.
A bit of context:
setting up an automation, where
WHEN option A, B or C is selected for the customfield in Main project
A corresponding task is created in project A, B or C

Hence the idea:
- send a web request for all the options of the field
- for each smart value with the body of the response compare if field input equals one of the smartvalue options
- trigger following processes

David Foote_h3fjnl

I've found that in automation, in order to dynamically create a card in a project, you need to use the project ID as a smart value, rather than just the project name or project key. (i.e. if I create a variable called {{proj}} and set it to a key like "MH" it won't work, but if I set it to a id like "10015" it will)

With this being the case, I'd suggest either using a lookup table in your automation to link the field values to project ids or, if you have Premium, creating a table in Assets to do something similar.

This has the downside of not dynamically updating as values are added and removed from the field, but the upside letting you use human readable values in your field!

I've done this recently with a custom field, Teams, and an object in Assets that holds the values from the field along with a project id:



And then in the automation, I go lookup the Asset using AQL and use the value I get back from that to create a ticket in the appropriate project:

It would be probably easier to create a lookup table to do this but

1. A lookup table is stored per automation, so if I want to do similar things in different spots that is more tables I have to keep updated

2. I can extend the Asset schema to hold additional info that I can dynamically put in the created card, like Categorization, Labels, Assignee, or Priority.

Of course, if you don't have Premium, lookup tables are your only option!