Learning Workflow

I am starting from zero on Workflow. I am going through the Tutorial and I can follow the part about scheduling an event every Monday at 11:00 am.

But I can't get my mind around "web hooks".

Like suppose this was a dentist office that wanted to send a reminder on the day before your appointment.

How would this be done with Workflow?

Mike

Hey @mdsmith1!
If your appointment data is in a database, the simplest way is to schedule a daily Workflow (e.g., every morning) that checks for appointments happening tomorrow and sends reminders via email or SMS.

You only need webhooks if you want to trigger a Workflow automatically when something happens in another system, like when a new appointment is booked.
For example, your booking tool could send a signal (a webhook) to Retool the moment someone schedules, and Retool can act on it right away (like saving it to a database or sending a confirmation).

This doc walks through the basics: Retool Workflows Quickstart
And this video is super helpful:
:arrow_forward: Intro to Workflows

Let me know if you need help with anything else!

Hey @mdsmith1, thanks for reaching out about Workflows! And thank you @Spacebar for the great answer. Here's our doc on triggering Workflows with webhooks. Hope it's helpful if you decide to explore this in the future! :sunglasses:

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Adnan:

Thank you for your reply.

I will go through your steps and see if I can get this off the ground.

Thank you again.

Mike

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