# Exercise Review: Your First Automation Hub Project

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| **course_slug** | automate-foundations |
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> Part of **[Automate Foundations](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/automate-foundations)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### Lesson text

# Exercise Review: Your First Automation Hub Project

1\. The Automation Hub Project contains one or more automations. The configuration settings and authorizations are shared within an Automation Hub project.

![er-create-automation.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/bltdfe3ff2a3c263cbe/6648c1205c24835191bc345b/er-create-automation.png)2. The Contentstack Trigger Connector allows us to listen and react to events occurring within the Contentstack UI. For example, the publish entry or save entry events. 

![config-trigger.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt84323b82694e0c34/6648c1a5d4d02eecc82eab76/config-trigger.png)

![trigger-types.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt66a6986f45bfa9df/6648c202acadaf48b07282dc/trigger-types.png)3\. The Action step receives the JSON from the Entry in the event and can access the properties of the Entry.  

![test-trigger.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt7209e595367da050/6648c24e0b508a7d34dcfc62/test-trigger.png)

![test-trigger2.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/bltd7d3aaaee993018a/6648c2613092d0864a63f98d/test-trigger2.png)4\. Access the content fields of the Entry using the 'body.data.entry' property in the Body of the email. Other connectors allow similar access to the Entry content in the Action step.

![email-automate.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt07960e4f683f1151/6648c2c24ac76e5e0740f842/email-automate.png)

#### Key takeaways

- Connect **Exercise Review: Your First Automation Hub Project** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module.
- Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment.
- Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model.

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### Content summary

Exercise Review: Your First Automation Hub Project. Exercise Review: Your First Automation Hub Project 1\. The Automation Hub Project contains one or more automations. The configuration settings and authorizations are shared within an Automation Hub project. ! er-create-automation.png (https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/bltdfe3ff2a3c263cbe/6648c1205c24835191bc345b/er-create-automation.png)2. The Contentstack Trigger Connector allows us to listen and react to events occurring within the Contentstack UI. For example, the publish entry or save entry events. ! config-trigger.png (https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt84323b82694e0c34/6648c1a5d4d02eecc82eab76/config-trigger.png) ! trigger-types.p

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### Asset references

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| er-create-automation.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/bltdfe3ff2a3c263cbe/6648c1205c24835191bc345b/er-create-automation.png` |
| config-trigger.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt84323b82694e0c34/6648c1a5d4d02eecc82eab76/config-trigger.png` |
| trigger-types.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt66a6986f45bfa9df/6648c202acadaf48b07282dc/trigger-types.png` |
| test-trigger.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt7209e595367da050/6648c24e0b508a7d34dcfc62/test-trigger.png` |
| test-trigger2.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/bltd7d3aaaee993018a/6648c2613092d0864a63f98d/test-trigger2.png` |
| email-automate.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt07960e4f683f1151/6648c2c24ac76e5e0740f842/email-automate.png` |

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| er-create-automation.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/bltdfe3ff2a3c263cbe/6648c1205c24835191bc345b/er-create-automation.png` |
| config-trigger.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt84323b82694e0c34/6648c1a5d4d02eecc82eab76/config-trigger.png` |
| trigger-types.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt66a6986f45bfa9df/6648c202acadaf48b07282dc/trigger-types.png` |
| test-trigger.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt7209e595367da050/6648c24e0b508a7d34dcfc62/test-trigger.png` |
| test-trigger2.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/bltd7d3aaaee993018a/6648c2613092d0864a63f98d/test-trigger2.png` |
| email-automate.png | `https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltebc53cfaf0dd6403/blt07960e4f683f1151/6648c2c24ac76e5e0740f842/email-automate.png` |