# Automation Rules

Automation Rules provides you the **ability to automate your repetitive tasks.**

For example, you have a Task Manager app and it has got two fields

1\. `Status` – which shows the current status of the task like `Open`, `In Progress`, `Closed`\
2\. `End Date` – which shows the date when the task was completed.

You can define an automation rule to set `End Date` to today’s date when the `Status` is changed to `Closed`.

There are 3 types of Automation Rules you can define – User Based Rules, Record Based Rules and Time Based Rules.

Each Automation Rule can carry out one or more different type of actions depending on the type of the rule.