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Matrix 6 CMS

    • Overview
    • Getting started
      • Accessing the system
      • About the Matrix user interface
      • Working with assets
      • Setting up your user account
      • Creating your first asset
      • Creating your first site and content page
      • Publishing your site
      • Next steps
    • Using
      • Concepts
        • Admin UI overview
        • Access privileges and permissions
        • Asset status
        • Asset version control
        • Design, menu and content
        • Using performance mode
        • Linking assets
        • Using the asset tree
        • Inline edit mode
        • Locking an asset
        • Clearing asset locks
        • Saving an asset
        • Workflow
        • Search indexing and weighting
        • Keyboard shortcuts
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      • My account
        • Account details
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      • Asset screens
        • Details
        • Content
        • Metadata
        • Workflow
        • Linking
          • Child assets
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          • Link an asset
          • Move an asset
          • Delete a relationship
          • How to change menu visibility for assets
        • URLs
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      • Asset settings
        • Dates
        • Designs
        • Paint layouts
        • Layouts
        • Schemas
        • Permissions
        • Tagging
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        • Logs
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      • Content components
        • Code
        • Markdown
        • Nested content
        • Snippet
        • WYSIWYG
      • Working with the asset tree
        • Adding assets
        • Moving assets
        • Linking assets
        • Cloning assets
        • Hiding assets from site navigation
      • Using contexts
      • Inline edit mode
      • Trashing and purging assets
        • Remove an asset from the asset tree
        • Restoring an asset from the trash
        • Purging the trash
        • Scheduling a trash purge
      • The highly-intensive processing object (HIPO)
      • Creating reports
        • Report assets
      • Accessibility auditor
    • Developing
      • Designs
        • Alternative designs
        • Design file examples
      • Content Delivery Network (CDN)
        • Edge Side Includes (ESI)
      • Metadata
        • Metadata field types
        • Configuring metadata schemas
        • Add sections to the component side panel
      • Workflow
        • Concepts
        • Schemas
        • Steps, conditions and escalations
        • Messages
        • Bundles
      • Server Side JavaScript
      • SAML Authentication
      • Working with Marketo
      • Working with Git
    • Manage users and permissions
      • User account types
        • User
        • Content editor
        • Backend user
        • System administrator
        • Root user
        • User account type quick reference
        • User account screens
          • Restrict user group membership based on their IP address range
        • Configure a user account
          • Sign in as another user
          • Morph a user account
          • Force a user to update their password
      • User groups
        • When to use user groups
        • Configure a user group
        • Link user accounts into groups
      • Permissions
        • Permission types
        • Grant and deny permissions
        • Permission type quick reference
      • Roles
        • Use roles to simplify workflow messaging logic
        • Role screens
        • Assign roles to an asset
    • Administering
      • System configuration
        • System configuration screen
        • Configuring contexts
        • Global preferences
        • External tools configuration
        • HIPO configuration
        • Messaging service configuration
        • Outgoing email
        • Password rules configuration
        • Proxy configuration
      • System management
        • Log manager
        • System administrators folder
        • Scheduled jobs manager
        • Remap manager
        • Cache manager
        • System designs folder
        • Import tools manager
        • Search manager
      • Maintenance
        • Active locks
        • HIPO herder
        • Orphaned assets
        • System maintenance
    • Features
      • Calendar assets
        • Single calendar event
        • Multi-date calendar event
        • Calendar events search page
      • Configuration assets
        • Comment
        • Link
        • Persona
        • Regular expression
        • Thesaurus
          • Thesaurus term
          • Structure thesaurus terms using XML
          • How to use thesaurus terms as metadata
          • Synonym searching
        • Triggers
          • About triggers
          • Trigger manager
          • Adding triggers
          • Trigger events
          • Trigger conditions
          • Trigger actions
      • Connector assets
        • File bridge
        • Git file bridge
        • Google Analytics connector
        • Google Analytics view
        • JSON web token
        • OAuth 1.0 Token
        • OAuth 2 token
          • OAuth Provider Settings
        • OAuth 2.0 Token - Two-Legged
        • SugarCRM token
        • SharePoint
          • SharePoint saved search
          • SharePoint CMIS bridge
        • TRIM connector
          • TRIM saved search
        • HPRM connector
          • HPRM saved search
        • LDAP bridge
        • Marketo bridge
      • Core assets
        • Folder
        • Site
      • Data sources
        • Data record
        • DB connector
        • DB data source
        • iCal data source
        • CSV data source
        • JSON data source
        • LDAP data source
        • RSS data source
        • XML data source
        • SOAP data source
        • Shadow assets
      • Design and layout assets
        • Design asset
          • Design customizations
          • CSS design file
          • SCSS design file
        • Designs tags
          • Global variables
        • Design areas
          • Asset lineage design area
          • Body design area
          • Declared vars design area
          • Login form design area
          • Password change form design area
          • Menu normal design area
          • Metadata design area
          • Nest content design area
          • Show if design area
          • Exit design area
          • CSRF token
        • Paint layouts
          • Formatting a paint layout
        • Component templates
        • Custom edit layouts
          • Creating and applying custom edit layouts
      • File assets
        • Image
        • CSS file folder
        • JS file folder
      • Form assets
        • Custom form
          • Fields
          • Field types
          • Contents
          • Sections
          • Formatting the custom form
          • Custom form example
          • Submission logs
          • Selective emails screen
          • Submission actions screen
          • Submission logs screen
          • Incomplete submissions screen
          • Email options screen
        • Decision tree
        • Ecommerce form
          • Ecommerce form page
          • Ecommerce default delivery method
        • Online poll
        • Online quiz form
          • Question group
          • Multiple-choice question
      • Listing assets
        • Asset listing
          • Details screen
          • Display formats screen
          • Column layout screen
          • Asset selections screen
          • Asset sorting screen
          • Asset grouping screen
          • Proxy asset types screen
          • Formatting the asset listing
            • A-Z listing
            • List current asset ID
            • Random listing
            • Tag listing page
            • Structured root selector
            • Position formats
            • Type formats
        • RSS feed
        • Site map
      • Management assets
        • Account manager page
        • Asset builder page
        • Link manager page
        • SAML account manager
        • User group manager page
        • OAuth account manager
        • Keyword Replacements
      • Page assets
        • News item
        • Page contents and components
        • Password reset page
        • Redirect page
        • Standard page
        • Remote content
      • Payment gateway assets
        • Braintree payment gateway
        • SagePay payment gateway
        • SecurePay direct post payment gateway
        • Westpac PayWay payment gateway
        • Windcave payment gateway
      • Search assets
        • Search page
        • Search list
        • Search folder
        • Creating a search page
      • Tools
        • Asset sorting tool
        • Asset syncing tool
        • Bulk file upload tool
        • Clear Matrix cache tool
        • Clear Squid cache tool
        • Data search tool
        • Export assets to XML tool
        • Export files tool
        • Export online quiz to XML tool
        • Import assets from XML tool
        • Mass clone tool
        • Re-indexing tool
        • Structured file import tool
        • Search and replace tool
      • Web services assets
        • REST resource asset
        • REST resource JavaScript asset
    • Tutorials
      • Integrations
        • Sell products on your Matrix site using Ecwid E-commerce
        • Sell products on your Matrix site using Shopify
        • Analyze behavioral data with FullStory
        • Monitor heatmaps with Hotjar
        • Monitor analytics with Heap
        • Monitor analytics with Mixpanel
        • Automate activities with Connect
        • Automate activities with Zapier
        • Create website archives of your Matrix site using Pagefreezer
        • Add push notifications with OneSignal
        • Add SSO with Facebook
        • Add SSO with Feide Open IdP
        • Broadcast events with Slack
        • Use a custom form to create TRIM records
        • Using a custom form to create SharePoint list items
        • List SharePoint saved search results on an asset listing page
        • List TRIM saved search results on an asset listing page
      • Triggers
        • Create an image variety using triggers
        • Sort assets automatically using triggers
      • Listings
        • Create a dynamic asset listing using keywords
        • Create an RSS data source listing
        • Use a calendar search to create an upcoming event listing
        • List assets using SSJS and keywords
      • Designs and templates
        • Adapting an existing design template to work with inline edit
        • Set up a Git bridge
        • Embed image listings with a component template
        • Create a multi-step custom form
        • Creating a robots.txt file
        • Create a menu using ESIs
        • Display cached conditional content in your site
        • Create dynamic title tags using SSJS
        • Create a dynamic asset listing using SSJS
        • Deploy template changes between instances
        • Convert deprecated linked CSS design areas
      • Other
        • Create a training events page using calendar assets
        • Edit assets using an asset builder
    • Release notes
      • What’s new in Matrix 6?
        • New features
        • Improvements
        • Important changes
      • 2023
        • 6.27
        • 6.26
      • 2022
        • 6.25
        • 6.24
        • 6.23
        • 6.22
        • 6.21
        • 6.20
        • 6.19
        • 6.18
      • 2021
        • 6.17
        • 6.16
        • 6.15
        • 6.14
        • 6.13
        • 6.12
        • 6.11
        • 6.10
        • 6.9
        • 6.8
        • 6.7
        • 6.6
      • 2020
        • 6.5
        • 6.4
        • 6.3
        • 6.2
        • 6.1
        • 6.0
      • Supported browsers
      • Deprecations
    • Glossary
    • APIs
      • SOAP API
        • SOAP server
        • Asset service
        • Design lookup service
        • File retrieval service
        • Link service
        • Metadata service
        • Permission and role service
        • Search service
        • Workflow service
      • JavaScript API
      • Content API
        • API overview
        • API tokens
        • API reference
      • Asset Management API
        • API overview
          • Create a token
          • Create a request
        • Create a folder asset
        • Manage metadata
          • Assign a metadata schema
          • Set metadata values
          • Remove metadata schemas
          • Metadata fields
        • Create a page
          • Create a standard page
          • Create a bodycopy asset
          • Create a component asset
          • Create a component content asset
        • API token reference
        • API reference
      • System link values
    • Keyword replacements
      • Common keywords
      • Global keywords
      • Keyword modifiers
      • Conditional keyword modifiers
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Triggers

You can use Triggers to automate tasks that might often be forgotten or overlooked.

  • How to create image varieties using a trigger

    Set up a trigger that can automatically create different image varieties when someone uploads an image asset in your Matrix system.

  • How to sort assets automatically using a trigger

    Set up a trigger action that can change the default sort order of assets created as children of a root node.

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