Automate your server
Each automation reads as a sentence: When is what starts it, Then the steps Colossus takes, such as posting a message, giving a role or marking the timeline. Setup › Automations has one page for each way an automation starts. Viewer access reads them; changing them needs Manager or Admin access.
Make an automation
- Open Setup › Automations and the page for how it starts, then press New automation.
- Under When, pick what starts it.
- Under Then, add the steps it takes, in order. A message it posts or sends is one you write in Setup › Library › Messages.
- Press Save.
Enabled on an automation's row switches it off without removing it.
Where each kind lives
- Member events
When a member joins or leaves, gets or loses a role, reaches a level, prestiges or wins a giveaway. Level-up announcements and perks are listed here too.
- Schedules
Once at a time you set, or every hour, day, week or month, in the server's time zone. The weekly briefing is the first row; see Post the weekly briefing.
- Buttons
When a member presses a button or picks an option on a message from the Library. Set what a button does on the message itself; this page lists what every button runs.
- Channel posts
When a message is posted in a channel. Mark on timeline adds a mark to the timeline for each post.
- Integrations
This server for the server's Discord scheduled events, and the Steam games and YouTube and Twitch channels the server follows. Press Follow a source, pick the platform and type the source, then add what it does with Add step: mark the timeline for every update, or post a message in channels you pick, pinging roles if you like. To unfollow, remove the source from the list. Posts go out only for what it publishes after you follow it, each once; marks are filled in from its history too.
- Forms
Forms members fill in on Discord or on a web page, and the automations that run when one is answered.
What each plan keeps
| Free | Pro | Titan | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Member automations | 3 | 15 | Unlimited |
| Scheduled automations | 1 | 10 | Unlimited |
| Channel automations | 2 | 15 | Unlimited |
| Followed sources | 2 | 25 | 100 |
| Steps per automation | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| Conditions per automation | 1 | 3 | 5 |
Direct messages, XP, timed roles, taking a role back and staff notes are steps on Pro and Titan. On Free they show locked, and an automation saved on a higher plan skips them and carries out the rest.
If it doesn't work
- An automation doesn't run. It is switched off, or the page marks it with what is wrong, such as a channel the bot can't post in or a role above the Colossus role.
- A followed source posts nothing. Only updates after you followed it are posted. Sources are checked every few minutes.
- New automation is locked. The page holds as many automations of that kind as the plan keeps.