Automating Newsletter Content Submissions with HubDB

[cbish]

I’m working on a project where we’re trying to streamline the way partners submit content for a client newsletter. Right now, partners manually enter article information into a shared Smartsheet, and our team pulls it together for the newsletter.

We’d like to automate this process so partners can submit articles via a form, and those submissions feed directly into HubSpot for easier approval and email integration.

Proposed Approach:

• Partners submit articles via a HubSpot form.

• Form submissions write directly to a HubDB table.

• The HubDB table is referenced in the newsletter email for content pulls.

• We set up an approval workflow before finalizing content for distribution.

Technical Requirements:
Each article submission includes:

• Title (with a hyperlink to the article hosted on the partner’s site)

• Description

• Author

• Company

Where I Need Help:

• Is it possible to have HubSpot form submissions write directly to a HubDB table?

• If not, what workarounds have others used to achieve something similar? (Manual CSV uploads are an option for now, but we’d like to eventually automate this.)

• Any best practices for automating the approval process before content is published to the newsletter?

I’d greatly appreciate insights from anyone who has tackled a similar use case or suggestions on how best to implement this workflow within HubSpot.

[chighsmith]

Hi @cbish,

Thank you for posting to the Community!

I'd like to tag in some of our Top Contributors to take a look here - @GiantFocal @alyssamwilie and @ChristinaKay Do you all have any suggestions on this one? 

Cassie, Community Manager