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The Label Added to Email trigger starts a workflow when one or more labels are newly applied to a Gmail message. Watch every label change or filter for one exact label name.

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Configuration

Leave Label Filter empty to trigger for any newly added label. A configured filter matches a complete label name, not a partial name.

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Trigger data

A single trigger run can contain several Added Labels. With a filter set, the run still exposes the complete list from that label-change event.

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Example: process manually approved mail

Set Label Filter to Approved, then pass Message ID to Gmail: Get Message by ID. Use the retrieved message as the input to the rest of the approved-mail workflow. This lets a person approve a message in Gmail before the automation reads its contents or takes action.

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Troubleshooting

Filtering compares complete label names while ignoring capitalization. Approved does not match Approved/Priority.
This trigger watches labels being added, not removed.