Check Beeminder account details after a spreadsheet change
When key planning cells change, retrieve Beeminder account details and include the context in your run report.
Trigger
Cell Range Values Changed
Triggers when values in a specified A1 range change in Google Sheets. This trigger monitors a specific cell or range of cells and fires when any values change.
Action
Get Beeminder User Information
Tool to retrieve information about a specified beeminder user. use when you need to fetch details like timezone, goals, urgency, or deleted goals after authenticating successfully.
Why this helps
A change to planning cells can prompt a follow-up, but account details are easy to leave behind while handling the update.
- Tie an account information check to a meaningful spreadsheet update.
- Keep the changed range as context for the run report.
- Reduce the need to remember a separate account check.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Sheets and Beeminder once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis from a channel.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to retrieve Beeminder user information when the relevant planning range changes.
- 4Pick the Google Sheets Cell Range Values Changed trigger and choose where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real change in the watched range.
Questions about this workflow
What account information can this return?
The available action retrieves Beeminder user information, such as timezone, goals, urgency, or deleted goals, after successful authentication.
Can I ask it to change account settings?
No. The listed action retrieves information and does not change Beeminder settings.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Sheets to Beeminder. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Sheets triggers
Beeminder actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Authenticate and Redirect User
Tool to authenticate a user and redirect them to a given url. use when sending a user into the beeminder web ui directly after oauth or token validation.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Charge
Tool to create a new charge for a user. use when billing a user outside of goal pledges; supports dryrun mode.
Aggregate Metric Changed
Triggers when an aggregate metric (SUM/COUNT/AVG/MIN/MAX) changes in a Google Sheets spreadsheet. This trigger monitors an aggregate calculation on a target column (optionally filtered by a search column/value) and fires when the calculated result changes.
Get all goals
Tool to retrieve all goals for a specified user. use when listing a user's active goals.
Cell Range Values Changed
Triggers when values in a specified A1 range change in Google Sheets. This trigger monitors a specific cell or range of cells and fires when any values change.
Get Archived Goals
Tool to retrieve archived goals for a specified user. use when you need to inspect a user's past archived goals.
Conditional Format Rule Changed
Triggers when conditional formatting rules change in a Google Spreadsheet. Detects when rules are added, updated, or removed. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.
Get Beeminder User Information
Tool to retrieve information about a specified beeminder user. use when you need to fetch details like timezone, goals, urgency, or deleted goals after authenticating successfully.
Data Validation Rule Changed
Triggers when data validation rules change (added/updated/removed) in a Google Spreadsheet. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.
Developer Metadata Changed
Triggers when developer metadata entries change (new/updated/removed) in a Google Spreadsheet. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.
Filtered Range Values Changed
Polling trigger that monitors Google Sheets filtered ranges for value changes. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect when values matching a data filter change. Emits the matched values when changes are detected.
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