Hello everyone, i am trying to mimic a function of having the same item in multiple boards (yes, i understand there are apps to do so, but they are out of my team’s budget, so i am trying to solve it myself). Right now i am sending a bunch of webhooks to N8N whenever an action is taken upon an item, subitem or update, when N8N get’s the webhooks it duplicates the updated item and sends it to the target boards. The problem i am facing here is to differ if the changed is caused by the API automation or by a real person. The built in webhooks send a userID, but there is no way to find out if the change was caused by the API, even if i create an APP and use the OAUTH of it, am i missing something? Also, if there is actually no way to find that out by the default webhooks, can i do that by creating custom webhooks via the custom apps?
Way to distinguish action made automatically vs by a person
Hello there @lodidev,
What about creating a “service user” in your account that would work just like any other users but would not belong to a specific person?
Then you could make your API requests using that user’s token, and then you can check who made the change, and if it was that user, you know it came from the API.
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