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Automations: Support for Team Field

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Automations: Support for Team Field
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May 7, 2026

The new Team field works end-to-end in automations: triggers, actions, loops, and notification routing. Service desks running approval workflows, GRC teams notifying ownership groups of compliance events, and any automation that previously had to fan out to individual members one at a time gets a more direct path.
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Key highlights

  • Team as Action Input: Set a Team field's value from a static team name, a lookup, a formula, or any text source the field picker accepts.
  • Team-to-User Mapping: Setting an Assigned To field from a Team field writes all team members to the destination, with the first member used when the destination is single-value.
  • Smart Email Routing: Send Email actions go to the Team Email when set, or fall back to deduplicated individual member emails when targeting multiple teams.
  • Notification Fan-Out: Send Notification actions reach every team member directly without per-member configuration, mirroring how individual assignment notifications work today.
  • Loop Support: Use a Team field in a Loop step to iterate over team members and run per-member follow-up actions like creating tasks, sending personal updates, or generating reports.
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How it works

  • In any automation action that targets a Team field, use the standard text input control to map the value, with field picker support for dynamic resolution.
  • The Send Email action checks each target team for a Team Email, with the team email handling distribution when present and individual member emails sent (with deduplication across multiple selected teams) when not.
  • Inactive or deleted teams encountered at runtime are skipped silently, consistent with how Assigned To handles deactivated members, so workflows stay running rather than failing on stale references.
  • Validation respects table permissions: a team without explicit access to the target table is skipped at runtime rather than written, with the skip recorded in run history.
  • Triggers fire when a Team field value changes, the same way they do for any other tracked field.
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This release closes the loop on the Team field type: configure it once on the table, and every automation surface treats it as a first-class assignment source.

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