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bellawu

Workflow Error Notifications

Receive a notification for whenever one of my workflows encounters an error.

This would avoid missing leads in real time due to undetected errors.

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HubSpot Updates
Delivered
December 08, 2023 01:22 PM

👋 Everyone,

 

Workflow Issue Notifications is now live for all Enterprise customers. You can receive notifications of workflow issues via Slack, Email, Facebook Workplace, MS Teams, Mobile, Browser, or with In-app notifications on a per workflow basis. As a result, less business critical workflows can continue to be managed through the workflows Needs Review tab, but users can receive notifications for higher priority workflow issues every time they occur, or after as set period of time defined by the user. Workflow notifications are available in Enterprise-level HubSpot portals.

 

Two steps are needed for an account to receive this notification: notification recipients need to be selected per workflow, and those recipients need to opt-in to that notification per channel.

 

For the first step, to turn on issue notifications for a workflow, users will go to Workflows > Settings and notifications > Notifications tab. Then they'll set select the desired individuals or teams that will receive notifications for that workflow. Lastly, they'll turn the When Workflow Needs Review toggle to On.

 

For the second step, in order for each of those recipient to receive this notification, they will need to opt-in to one or more notification channels. To do so, users will first go to Settings > Your preferences > Notifications. Then will select the tab for a notification channels Email, Desktop, or Slack.

 

Then, to opt-in for this notification within each desired channel, users will expand the Workflows accordion. Within that accordion, users will check the checkbox next to When a workflow needs review.

 

For more information on setting up user notifications, check out this knowledge article.

 

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback on workflow issue notifications! 

 

Best,

Jess

May 09, 2023 10:38 AM

Also, here's a URL that will take you to all public betas:  https://app.hubspot.com/l/whats-new/betas

In Planning
May 08, 2023 06:09 PM

👋 Everyone,

 

We released the next iteration of workflow issue/error management to public beta last week. With this update you can set preferences for the types of workflow issues you want to monitor. You can choose to ignore trivial issues indefinitely, while critical issues can be set for review every time they occur. You can also set preferences to review specific workflow issues on certain dates or after set time periods. The preferences you set will determine what shows up for review on the tab on the main workflows page. We expect this feature to go to an automated rollout for everyone begin using it next week. If you would like to join the public beta this week, go to Product Updates > Early Access > [Public Beta] Workflows - Issue Details Panel with Reminders.

The next iteration of workflow issue/error management is workflow notifications.

 

Question regarding workflow notifications for anyone who would like to share feedback: Is there a prefered channel through which you would like to receive notifications about workflow issues?  Slack, email, in-app, mobile app, any other channels? I appreciate your feedback!

 

Thank you,

Jess

jhartnagle@hubspot.com

February 03, 2023 01:52 PM

Hi, Everyone,

We are working on a series of error management improvements in 2023,
including notifications. The first improvement (it's not notifications)
will be out of beta and available to everyone next week. It includes
additional information about workflows with errors, along with the ability
to clear the workflow from the workflows with errors list
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Error Notifications is coming - I will definitely update this group with
beta details when it's ready. I appreciate all your insights and patience.

Best,
Jess

In Planning
September 22, 2022 01:40 PM

Hi, Everyone,

 

I'm Jess, a product manager on HubSpot's Automation team. Thank you all for your input for this idea. I'm excited to share the product team is actively working on workflow error notifications, along with some other error management enhancements! If you are interested in participating in the Beta (it will likley be later this year) for workflow error notifications, as well as for other workflow error management features, please contact me directly at jhartnagle@hubspot.com.

 

Again, thank you all for your feedback!

 

Best,

Jess

Being Reviewed
December 15, 2021 11:46 AM

Our team is currently evaluating the best way to notify users about workflow events. If anyone would be interested in speaking with us (the product team) about their use case, feel free to send me a direct message and we can set up some time to talk!

April 20, 2020 09:10 AM

Hi @Herschel. Thanks for the reply here. I had an itchy finger on that one and saved before it was ready.

 

Just to note here, this status does not mean that the idea is rejected. It just means that we have reviewed it, but have not prioritized it in our roadmap. We will update this thread if that changes.

Not Currently Planned
April 20, 2020 09:02 AM

Hi HubSpot Community,

 

Thank you for taking the time to contribute and vote on this idea. We don't currently have this specific feature planned, but we are currently looking at ways to improve our error and alerts system. The current path is to help surface these better in-app. If anyone would like to be a part of the beta when it is available, please let us know.

 

Thank you,

Jesse

Not Currently Planned
April 20, 2020 08:32 AM

101 Replies
Jon-RevenueOps
Contributor | Gold Partner

@jtremblay is there any update on workflow error notifications? 

cjankowski
HubSpot Product Team

Our team is currently evaluating the best way to notify users about workflow events. If anyone would be interested in speaking with us (the product team) about their use case, feel free to send me a direct message and we can set up some time to talk!

CCano
Participant
Hi HS Team!!

It´s fantastic you are reviewing this new potential feature. It would help
us so much to avoid surprises. Sometimes, we identify errors almost by
chance when it's a bit late to reconnect with our leads and they might have
gone cold by then.
.
Please send me your meeting link to book a call with you 🙂

Thanks a lot!
Claudia
ridingforlife07
Participant

Would love to see this implemented!

Elbeon
Participant | Diamond Partner

Wanted to add this idea as well, because we want to receive notifications when a contact get unenrolled (for instance, when it's merged with another contact and doesn't meet the re-enrollment criteria)

comoglu1
Member

We have created nearly 100 workflows that are in active use. It would be great if we could mark the critical ones and receive a special error notification for them.

EmmaClark
Member

Yes this would massively help our team as we've just manually discovered an issue with:

- webhook actions timing out and being skipped

- sms messages not being sent

 

If we had received a notification when these had happened we could have instantly caught and fixed. 

 

To help keep on top of workflow management it would also be useful to be able to mark them as 'fixed' in the workflow error tab as mentioned in this idea

Ellesyanna
Contributor | Diamond Partner

@cjankowski any updates on this? This would be a great feature to have, now there are often errors overseen.

AHeilig
Member

Such a basic idea that is crutial for HS customers to succeed with their operations.......

Simple example that is costing us money:

We set up that the qualification process of a contact is designed by changing statuses on a contacts property - once qualified it creates a new deal and assigns the relevant acount executive for the demo.

 

If something breaks in the process then the automation doesn't due it's job.... meaning we loose deals that have been qualified because we didn't get an alert that the automation is broken.

 

HS product team - you're getting requests for this since 2017 - this is a super easy feature to develop and if it makes your customers lose money than this should be a No-brainer if to add to the road map.

 

I'd love to get a response and understand the status of this simple ability and if still is not a priority.

 

Thanks in advance

leechen
HubSpot Employee

Commenting on behalf of a cust here! Sends out loads of workflows and would be great to know whenever any of them are encountering an error without having to access each and every workflow to check. Thank you!

APearson
Member

+1

Another feature that seems like a no-brainer which should be already possible. Missing a bunch of errors as I have to manually go in and check each workflow. 

thomasjb
Member

Is there any update on this type of feature?

This type of feature is available in most other email ervice providers/CRMs -- I'm surpirsed such a basic functionality doesn't exist.

nlafakis
Top Contributor | Elite Partner

Hey @bellawu!,

 

I've made error checks of my own via internal notifications and placing myself inside of a team, so that when it comes to adding/removing people to get them it's just one place to do that instead of every single error message box. This is what it looks like roughly:

 

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Essentially, everywhere that I wanted to know if something was going to break, I installed an if/then tree, using the "otherwise/else" branch to send an internal email notification. In that way, if someone didn't meet the preceeding criterion (which they should have prior to that point) then it would flag an error and let me know via email asap.

In the end, there are internal marketing automated emails which get sent out to the teams to notify them of the leads. In those cases, I used a Value= tree in order to sus out the success/failure state of the email send, and again installed an internal notification to let me know if it didn't happen. If it did, I left it blank because I don't care if it was successful.

 

Does that help in any way?

Deborah
Contributor

Hello @nlafakis ,

very interessting workaround solution! But I dont know what field to check, if an email was sent correctly or an error appeared. What condition do you check there? What field do you use in the if/then branch?

Thanks.

Deborah

 

nlafakis
Top Contributor | Elite Partner

Hey @Deborah!,

 

So there's a lot of things you can do when it comes to post email send with the Value Equals Branch. Here's the crux of the setup:

 

Starts with the IF/THEN which includes a check in case something failed that as pictured above. One of those branches is going to be for sending an email based on qualifying factors. That's going to be followed up with a Value Equals Branch, and point it to the Send Email box (if you're going to replicate this across multiple places in your workflow, do so BEFORE adding the Value Equals Branch. Once added, from the IF/THEN down, cannot be copied and pasted elsewhere because it would contain a duplicate value).

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Once that's in place, you can determine how you'd like to break down the success/failure of the send. Personally I only need to see the failure, but there's additional options that you can use also!:

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Then you can attach your internal notifications to the end of those branches to notify you of the success/failure of the send:

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For testing purposes of course, you could also create a success notification to ensure the flow is working properly. Depending on traffic through the workflow when live, however, you may not want to have this in place.

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Did that answer your question, sorry if I didn't go into enough detail.

 

Best,

Nico

 

devers
Member

Due to the automated nature of the workflows and how integral they are to our lead process - this is a critical capability.

thechiefgood
Member | Platinum Partner

I'm glad this is being reviewed. We have have had multiple clients where HubSpot updates caused workflows to break and we didn't find out until luckily we happened to be editing one. Similar to the SFDC/HubSpot sync, we need to alerted when a key workflow has a severe error. 

CDunham-Wilkie
Contributor

Really glad to see this is being reviewed! 

TSudarski
Member

absolutely this is very important!

PatrickH429
Participant

+1