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Add Automation Rules to Task Templates
Automation rules can now be added directly to task templates. In the past, it was only possible to add automation rules to task templates that belong to a specific change or project template.
Being able to include automation rules in the link between a task template and a change or project template is still useful, because it allows different automation rules to be defined for a task template depending on which change or project template it is a part of. But in many cases, the automation rules for a task template need to be exactly the same regardless of the change or project template that it is linked to. So now automation rules can be related directly to a task template to ensure that these rules are applied no matter which change or project template was used to generate a new task based on the task template.
To add an automation rule to a change or project task template, open it in View mode and select the ‘Automation Rules…’ option from the Actions menu.


A Note From the Road: What SPARK Taught Me About Time
During the second SPARK event in Antwerp, I stood at the back of a training room and watched a customer build a custom integration with our new iPaaS, wiring Xurrent to another system in her stack that had never talked to it before. No services rep doing it for her. No statement of work, no project plan with a kickoff and a go-live date. Just a person with live beta access in her hands, connecting two systems by hand, and finishing it before her coffee went cold. A year ago that would have been a multi-week project with a budget attached. She looked up, a little surprised it had actually worked, and said something I have not stopped thinking about since. She said it just gave her her week back.

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