Resubscribe to an automation email?

Hey all,

A critical member of our workflow has unsubscribed from his approval emails. After doing some digging on the forums I have found a couple solutions:

-Remove his email from the notification list in the workflow, then add him again

-Duplicate the workflow

Neither of these work. The workflow still says the user has unsubscribed.

Any idea how to fix this?

I created a test sheet and unsubscribed from the notification and I can't find a way to resubscribe myself.

Best Answer

  • Genevieve P.
    Genevieve P. Employee
    edited 12/29/21 Answer ✓

    Hi @Ryan Levitz

    To re-subscribe to a workflow, create a Duplicate of the workflow (and delete the original). This should automatically re-subscribe everyone to the new workflow.

    If this hasn't worked, please contact Support with the user's email address, workflow ID, and sheet URL.

    Thanks!

    Genevieve

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Answers

  • sudhirjain
    sudhirjain ✭✭✭

    Hi Ryan,


    Please ask the user to check the notification setting. Its under his Personal Setting.



    Thanks

  • Hi sudjirjan,

    Unfortunately, that setting was still checked. Unchecking, saving, and rechecking the box didn't work either.

  • Genevieve P.
    Genevieve P. Employee
    edited 12/29/21 Answer ✓

    Hi @Ryan Levitz

    To re-subscribe to a workflow, create a Duplicate of the workflow (and delete the original). This should automatically re-subscribe everyone to the new workflow.

    If this hasn't worked, please contact Support with the user's email address, workflow ID, and sheet URL.

    Thanks!

    Genevieve

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  • Deleting the original was the last piece of the puzzle. I had to duplicate the original, put in a dummy recipient, save it, delete the original, and then I was able to add the correct recipient in place of the dummy.


    Thank you!

  • I'm glad you were able to resolve this!

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  • Ami Veltrie
    Ami Veltrie ✭✭✭✭✭✭

    What if you have multiple users that have unsubscribed and you only want to resubscribe one user? Does Smartsheet have a more methodical way to manage this?

  • Hi @Ami Veltrie

    In this instance I would suggest duplicating the workflow. Then once you have a copy you can remove everyone except for the one person you need to subscribe!

    Cheers,

    Genevieve

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  • Adriane Price
    Adriane Price ✭✭✭✭✭✭

    As much as I appreciate having to re-create a workflow, I also have one too many sheets to keep track of to re-creating workflows for every person who decides to unsubscribe. Is anyone aware if there have been any updates so that the user can re-subscribe to workflows? I am not finding anything in regards to this topic and maybe I have searched incorrectly.

    Adriane

  • It is the deleting of the old one that finally allowed me to add the user that unsubscribed. I duplicated the original and kept getting error and then saw one of the comments mentioned deleting the old workflow. I did this and then was able to add the user to the workflow that I duplicated.

    Thanks @Genevieve P.