Monitor your visual data rules
Your conditional formatting highlights overdue tasks in red or high-priority items in bold. If someone removes those rules, your visual cues disappear and data becomes harder to scan. Notis alerts Telegram when formatting rules change.
Trigger
Conditional Format Rule Changed
Triggers when conditional formatting rules change in a Google Spreadsheet. Detects when rules are added, updated, or removed. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.
Action
Send Message
Send a text message to a telegram chat using the bot api.
Why this helps
Conditional formatting rules that make data visually scannable (highlighting, color coding, bold text) are accidentally removed by team members, making the spreadsheet harder to use until you notice.
- Catch removed formatting rules before they make data harder to scan
- Keep visual consistency in your spreadsheets
- Audit trail of formatting changes
- Maintain data usability standards
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Sheets and Telegram to Notis
- 2Create an automation: 'Alert me in Telegram when formatting rules in my sheet change'
- 3Write: 'Send a message whenever a conditional formatting rule is added or removed'
- 4Select 'Conditional Format Rule Changed' trigger, pick your Telegram channel, and test by adding or removing a conditional format
Questions about this workflow
Is this really necessary? Formatting doesn't affect calculations.
True, but visual cues improve usability. If your team relies on color-coded statuses or highlighting to scan data quickly, changes matter.
Will it alert for every formatting tweak?
Yes. If that's too noisy, narrow it: 'only alert for high-priority ranges' or 'only for removed rules'.
Can I prevent team members from changing these rules?
Use sheet protection to lock formatting rules. Notis alerts you if they change; protection stops them from changing.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Sheets to Telegram. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Sheets triggers
Telegram actions
Aggregate Metric Changed
Triggers when an aggregate metric (SUM/COUNT/AVG/MIN/MAX) changes in a Google Sheets spreadsheet. This trigger monitors an aggregate calculation on a target column (optionally filtered by a search column/value) and fires when the calculated result changes.
Answer Callback Query
Use this method to send answers to callback queries sent from inline keyboards. the answer will be displayed to the user as a notification at the top of the chat screen or as an alert.
Cell Range Values Changed
Triggers when values in a specified A1 range change in Google Sheets. This trigger monitors a specific cell or range of cells and fires when any values change.
Delete Message
Delete a message, including service messages, with certain limitations.
Conditional Format Rule Changed
Triggers when conditional formatting rules change in a Google Spreadsheet. Detects when rules are added, updated, or removed. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.
Edit Message
Edit text messages sent by the bot.
Data Validation Rule Changed
Triggers when data validation rules change (added/updated/removed) in a Google Spreadsheet. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.
Export Chat Invite Link
Generate a new primary invite link for a chat; any previously generated primary link is revoked. the bot must be an administrator in the chat for this to work and must have the appropriate administrator rights.
Developer Metadata Changed
Triggers when developer metadata entries change (new/updated/removed) in a Google Spreadsheet. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect changes between polls.
Forward Message
Forward messages of any kind. service messages can't be forwarded.
Filtered Range Values Changed
Polling trigger that monitors Google Sheets filtered ranges for value changes. Uses snapshot-based diffing to detect when values matching a data filter change. Emits the matched values when changes are detected.
Get Chat Info
Get up to date information about the chat (current name of the user for one-on-one conversations, current username of a user, group or channel, etc.).
New Rows in Google Sheet
Simple polling trigger that monitors Google Sheets for new rows. Detects when new rows are added and returns the complete row data. Perfect for triggering any workflow based on new sheet entries.
Get Chat Administrators
Get a list of administrators in a chat. on success, returns an array of chatmember objects that contains information about all chat administrators except other bots.
New Sheet Added in Google Spreadsheet
Polling trigger that detects when a new sheet is added to a Google Spreadsheet.
Get Chat History
Get chat history messages. note: this uses the getupdates method with specific parameters to retrieve historical messages.
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