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How to Connect JetEngine to Apps Using Uncanny Automator Pro

How to Connect JetEngine to Apps Using Uncanny Automator Pro

The tutorial explains how to connect the JetEngine plugin to different third-party apps using the Uncanny Automator Pro plugin, set triggers, actions, and use tokens.

Before you start, check the tutorial requirements:

  • Elementor (Free version) or Block editor (Gutenberg)

  • JetEngine plugin installed and activated

Downloading and Installing Uncanny Automator Pro

Navigate to the Uncanny Automator site and log in.

log in on the uncanny automator site

Click the Downloads tab of the site and download the plugin. Open the Licenses tab of the site and copy the license key.

downloading the uncanny automator

Install and activate the plugin. Paste the license key into the appropriate field of the WordPress Dashboard > Automator > Settings tab.

uncanny automator activation
Things to know

Read the tutorial to learn How to Install JetPlugins via WordPress Dashboard.

Selecting the Integration Type

To select the necessary types of integration, keep in mind the following features:

  • The JetEngine plugin can be connected with the Uncanny Automator Pro version only.
  • Uncanny Automator provides two types of triggers 一 further actions (so-called recipes) for logged-in WordPress users (the Free version) and for all users (the Pro version).
  • The Pro version supports many triggers per recipe, but the Free version supports one trigger per recipe.
  • The Uncanny Automator recipe type cannot be changed later.

Integration Preparations

To integrate the Uncanny Automator plugin with different applications, create the appropriate account (i.e., Google Calendar, Google Sheets, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more) and set its connection in the Automator > Settings > App integrations or Automator > App integrations tabs. 

Select the necessary application, press the “Connect account” button, or set the connection during recipe specification.

For the current tutorial, the connection is set to a Facebook account.

connect jetengine to facebook account

Connecting JetEngine With Uncanny Automator

For this tutorial, we will automate the addition of a comment with tokens to a pre-created CPT (here, sightseeings) and a message to a Facebook post if a user updates a specific JetEngine field on a specific post type using Uncanny Automation Pro.

Things to know

Read the tutorial to learn How to Create Custom Post Types in WordPress.

Creating the logged-in users recipe type

Navigate to the Automator > Recipes > Add new tab. Select the Logged-in users recipe type.

selecting the logged-in users type of the recipe

Type the recipe name (here, JetEngine integration) in the Add title field.

Setting a trigger

Navigate to the Trigger block and select JetEngine for integration.

select jetengine as a trigger for integration

Set a trigger: “A user updates a specific JetEngine field on a specific post type.”

selecting a jetengine cpt as a trigger

Select the CPT and its field.

selecting post type and a field as a trigger

Press the “Save” button and move the “Draft” toggle to the “Live” position (this toggle is placed at the top right corner of the Trigger block).

Setting an action

Navigate to the Actions block, press the “Add action” button, and select the “WordPress” application for integration.

selecting wordpress as an integration

Select the “Add a comment to a post” option.

selecting the add a comment to a post option

Select the following tokens from the drop-down menus:

  • Post ID: meta field (here, description) of the CPT number 47;
  • Commenter’s email: Common: User email;
  • Name: Common: User username;
  • Comment: type a text.
adding token data to the comments

To find the CPT’s ID, navigate to the selected CPT (Poland) and find its ID in the page’s URL.

cpt id definition

Press the “Save” button to save the action. Move the “Draft” toggle into the “Live” position to make the Actions block active (this toggle is at the top right corner of the Actions block).

If the recipe has one action, move the “Draft” toggle into the “Live” position to make the whole recipe active (this toggle is in the bottom right corner of the current Recipe block on the right sidebar).

Adding multiple actions

This recipe has another action – adding a message to a post on Facebook: press the “Add action” button and specify “Facebook” as the integration application.

Add text to the Message field. Press the asterisk icon if you need to add tokens. 

adding messages on facebook

Press the “Save” button. 

Activate the action: move the “Draft” toggle into the “Live” position (this toggle is at the top right corner of the current Actions block).

Activate the recipe: move the “Draft” toggle into the “Live” position (this toggle is in the bottom right corner of the current Recipe block on the right sidebar).

activation of the recipe

Checking the result

Navigate to the CPT and add data. For this tutorial, we added the data to the Description meta field. Publish the page.

adding metafield data to the page

The WordPress Dashboard > Comments tab will show the added comment.

comments added

Navigate to the connected Facebook account and check the added post.

facebook post added

Navigate to Automator > All recipes to watch the number of completed runs of the recipe.

jetengine integration recipe runs

Now you’ve learned how to connect JetEngine to different apps using Uncanny Automator Pro on the example of adding comments to the WordPress CPT and messages to Facebook posts.

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