# Triggering a workflow every time a note is added to an object **URL:** \ **Category:** CRM\ **Tags:** workaround, workflows, professional, enterprise\ **Created:** [November 28, 2023, 10:29am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/triggering-a-workflow-every-time-a-note-is-added-to-an-object/94914 "2023-11-28T10:29:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PhilThomas](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/philthomas/32/96352_2.png) [@PhilThomas](https://community.hubspot.com/u/PhilThomas)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 10:29am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/triggering-a-workflow-every-time-a-note-is-added-to-an-object/94914/1 "2023-11-28T10:29:06Z")
We’re attempting to create a workflow that triggers every time a note is added to an object. The issues we’re currently experiencing are: **1)** ‘_Activities_’ can only be used to trigger a workflow initially, and cannot be used for re-enrollment. **2)** ‘_Last Activity Date_’ will only ever enroll the object into the workflow once a day, and we need the workflow to run for every note added. Are there any possible workarounds to accurately enroll objects into this workflow each time a note is added? ---
**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 10:33am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/triggering-a-workflow-every-time-a-note-is-added-to-an-object/94914/2 "2023-11-28T10:33:24Z")
Hi @PhilThomas, Not in a way that is 100% satisfactory, but you can get close: 1. Create a contact / company / deal based list 2. Filter for activity type note and activity date is less than 1 day ago 3. Re-enroll contacts into workflow based on list membership This means that only one enrollment can occur per day so it’s a bad solution when there are more than one notes per day, a good solution if it’s typically one max. Best regards! ---
**Author:** ![PhilThomas](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/philthomas/32/96352_2.png) [@PhilThomas](https://community.hubspot.com/u/PhilThomas)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/triggering-a-workflow-every-time-a-note-is-added-to-an-object/94914/3 "2023-11-28T16:56:45Z")
Thank you Karsten! You’re absolutely right, ideally we’d be able to trigger the workflow each time a note is added. Unfortunately the client may add multiple notes to an object per day, all of which need to trigger a workflow. Hopefully one day in the future workflows will be able to use associated objects as re-enrollment triggers. Fingers crossed. ---
**Author:** ![PhilThomas](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/philthomas/32/96352_2.png) [@PhilThomas](https://community.hubspot.com/u/PhilThomas)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 11:58am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/triggering-a-workflow-every-time-a-note-is-added-to-an-object/94914/4 "2023-11-29T11:58:34Z")
To anyone that stumbles upon this thread seeking a solution to a similar issue, we’ve managed to find the property that solves the issue. “Number of Sales Activities” increments by 1 every time an activity is logged against an object record. Using this as a workflow event trigger, allowing re-enrollment, and specifying whether it’s “known” triggers each time an activity is added! ![PhilThomas_0-1701259104754.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/5/a/5a604fb91f15c353ae7b10b4d4a99babe14656b8.png) ---
**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 11:59am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/triggering-a-workflow-every-time-a-note-is-added-to-an-object/94914/5 "2023-11-29T11:59:47Z")
Hi @PhilThomas, How are you determining whether the activity that was added was in fact a note? ---
**Author:** ![PhilThomas](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/philthomas/32/96352_2.png) [@PhilThomas](https://community.hubspot.com/u/PhilThomas)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2023, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/triggering-a-workflow-every-time-a-note-is-added-to-an-object/94914/6 "2023-11-29T12:04:18Z")
In this particular use case we didn’t need to identify whether it’s a note, we just needed a workflow to trigger whenever a note was added. The actual workflow utilises custom code modules that obtain the “hs\_note\_body” values for all notes on a contact, then checks if the string values contain any text that matches a specific RegEx statement. If no matches are found it ends, or if any matches are found it modifies the “hs\_note\_body” values for those notes and updates them.