Ensuring your automation only runs once Follow

Automations check every hour to see if their conditions are met. So an automation must include one of the following:

• an action that nullifies at least one of the conditions, or
• a condition than can be true only once

If there is no nullifying action or true-only-once condition, the unmodified conditions will continue to be met and the automation will continue to fire in an endless loop.

An example of a condition that is commonly nullified is a "ticket priority" condition. A ticket priority condition is usually paired with a "hours since created" condition. For example, if the ticket priority is Normal (Ticket: Priority > Is > Normal), the condition is nullified by including an action that changes the priority to High (Ticket: Priority > High) or some other priority.

An example of a condition that can only be true once is the "hours since open is" condition. This condition doesn't require a nullifying action. For example, if the hours since the ticket is open is 4 hours (Ticket: Hours since created > Is > 4), then the condition will only be true on one check. On the next check, the hours since open will be 5, and the condition will be false.

An easy way to cancel a condition is to add a tag. The automation would check for a tag and, if not present, the automation would add the tag to the ticket and perform any actions (such as, sending a notification). If the tag is present on the ticket, the automation will not perform the action again.