Hourly

Hear in Slack when a new Canva design appears

Your channel gets the title and edit link of any design created in your Canva account since the last check.

Runs: Hourly
Apps: Canva
AI: Not needed
Access: design:meta:read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every hour, look for new designs in my Canva account and post each one's title and edit link to #design in Slack.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A marketing team shares one Canva account, and designs appear without warning: a colleague drafts a flyer, an agency uploads a social template, an intern duplicates last month's banner. The people responsible for brand consistency or approvals only learn about new designs when they stumble on them, and by then the flyer has already been printed with the wrong logo.

Every hour, ClickRuntime lists the designs in your Canva account and compares their IDs with the list it remembers from the last check. For each design it has not seen, it posts the title and an edit link to Slack. Nothing is announced twice, and the channel becomes a feed of new creative work.

Brand managers, marketing leads and agencies working in a shared Canva account get the most out of it.

What you get out of it

Brand mistakes are caught before they print
Seeing a new design in a channel gives the brand owner a chance to review it early. A wrong logo or off-brand color is much cheaper to fix on screen than on a stack of printed flyers.
Approvals no longer rely on being told
Colleagues do not have to remember to ask for a review. The design announces itself, so the approver can look at it while there is still time to change it.
Duplicated effort is avoided
When everyone can see a new banner has just been created, a second person does not start the same one. Hours of design work are saved across a busy team.
Agency deliveries are visible
Designs uploaded by an outside agency appear in the channel with a link. The internal team knows work has arrived and can begin the review at once. Strong agency relationships depend on prompt reviews, and a visible delivery makes prompt reviews much more likely.
A shared view of creative output
A running list of new designs shows what the team is producing week by week. Managers can see activity at a glance without opening Canva. A weekly glance at the channel replaces a trip into Canva to see what changed, and it helps leaders spot gaps in creative output.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every hour, ClickRuntime lists your Canva designs.
It compares them with the list from last time, so only new designs are reported.
Each new design is posted to your Slack channel with its title and a link to open it in Canva.

Before it runs live

Connect Canva

What you get

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Hear in Slack when a new Canva design appearstoday, 9:00Succeeded

Slack · #designNew Canva design: Acme webinar banner https://www.canva.com/design/DAF.../edit

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Canva steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

new_design_notification.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, report_fetched, state, notify, http, credentials

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    designs = http.get("https://api.canva.com/rest/v1/designs", headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("canva", "main")}, params={"sort_by": "modified_descending"}).json()["items"]
    known = state.get("ids")
    new = [d for d in designs if known is not None and d["id"] not in known]
    report_fetched(len(new))
    if known is not None and not new:
        return {"summary": "No new designs"}
    for d in new:
        notify.slack(f"New Canva design: {d.get('title') or 'Untitled'}\n{d['urls']['edit_url']}", channel="#design")
    state.set("ids", list(set(known or []) | {d["id"] for d in designs}))
    return {"posted": len(new)}

FAQ

Common questions

How soon after creating a design does the message appear?

The check runs hourly, so a new design is announced at the next run, within about an hour of its creation. This is polling, not an instant event, so very fresh designs may take a little while to appear.

Does it announce designs that are only edited?

No. It announces designs whose IDs it has not seen before. Edits to an existing design do not trigger a message, since the ID is already remembered. Only newly created designs appear in the channel.

Will the first run post every existing design?

On the first run there is nothing remembered, so it could announce everything. A careful setup records the current designs as already seen on the first run so that only later additions are posted. Check that behavior in the plan.

What permissions does it need?

design:meta:read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it checks. Checks that find nothing new and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

On a schedule