Summary
In this chapter, you have learned how to enhance the functionality of automation rules by using smart values and smart value functions.
We learned which smart values are set by the various triggers and how you can access their attributes or fields. In addition, you learned about smart value functions and how they can be used in isolation against a particular field or chained together to perform multiple operations on data in a single step.
Finally, we learned about the various smart value functions available for dates, text, lists, and numerical values and how these can be used to format and manipulate data to create extremely powerful and flexible rules.
Smart values and their associated functions can be used in nearly every field in automation rule conditions and actions, and we'll learn throughout the rest of this book how they will help us to create much more powerful and richer rules as a result of their use.
In the next chapter, we will be looking at...
