# Connect Notion > Connect Notion and your automations can file tasks for you — a certificate about to expire, a monitor that went down, a domain coming up for renewal… Source: https://infranest.io/docs/connect-notion Last updated: 2026-09-19 --- Connect Notion so your automations can file work straight into the database your team already uses — a certificate about to expire, a monitor that went down, a domain coming up for renewal — without anyone copying and pasting. This is for anyone setting up automations that need to create or update Notion pages. ## Overview - Lets automations create tasks in a Notion database you choose, and later comment on them or move them along. - Works with a one-click connection or a token, whichever your organisation has set up. - Notion connections can only see the pages and databases you explicitly share with them — this is different from most integrations and worth understanding before you start. > [!NOTE] > A valid connection that hasn't been given access to anything can reach nothing at all. Skipping the sharing step below is the single most common reason a Notion automation fails. ## Connect your workspace 1. Go to **Settings → Integrations**, find Notion, and click **Connect with Notion**. 2. Notion asks you to approve access and to **choose which pages and databases to share**. 3. Pick the database you want tasks filed in while you're there. 4. You'll land back in InfraNest already connected. If **Connect with Notion** is greyed out, your InfraNest administrator hasn't registered a Notion connection yet — use a token instead (see below); it works the same way once set up. ## Connect with a token 1. In Notion, open the developer portal at `app.notion.com/developers/connections`. 2. Under **Internal connections**, choose **Create a new connection**, give it a name, and pick your workspace. 3. Open the **Configuration** tab and copy the **Installation access token**. 4. In InfraNest, go to **Settings → Integrations → Notion** and paste it in. InfraNest checks the token straight away and shows which workspace it belongs to. ## Share the database with the connection Do this even if the connection says it's working — a token on its own can see nothing. 1. In Notion, open the database you want tasks filed in. 2. Click the **•••** menu at the top right. 3. Choose **Connections → Add connection**, and pick the connection you just made. 4. Confirm it can access the page and everything inside it. If you connected with the one-click button and chose the database on Notion's approval screen, this is already done. ![Connect Notion](/media/a5e066af-0172-42a3-9481-b483fba293a8) ## File a task from an automation 1. Build a rule as usual and pick **Create Notion task** as the action. 2. Set **Notion database** — start typing and pick from the databases this connection can see, or paste a database link straight from your browser. If the list is empty, the sharing step above hasn't been done yet. 3. Set **Title** — plain text; you can drop in values from whatever triggered the rule, so the task arrives with the domain name or monitor already in it. 4. Set **Body** (optional) — becomes the text inside the page. 5. Fill in **Properties** (optional) — add a row per column you want to fill: pick the column by name, then type or pick the value. The column's type is shown underneath so you know whether it wants a date, an option, a number, and so on. The task the rule creates is available to later steps in the same rule, so you can post its link to somewhere else straight after filing it — or comment on it and move it, using the actions below. ## Comment on a task, or move it along 1. Add **Comment on Notion page** to add a comment — useful as the other half of a rule that files tasks, so when the monitor recovers, the task says so. 2. Add **Update Notion page** to set any of the same properties — a rule that opened work can also finish it: set **Status** to Done, push a date out, or tick a checkbox. It can also move the page to the trash. You don't need to say which database the page is in — it already knows. 3. For both actions, say which page: paste its link from Notion, or refer to the task an earlier step in the same rule created — the picker of earlier values offers it. ## Troubleshooting - **"Notion cannot see that page or data source."** Open the database in Notion, click **••• → Connections → Add connection**, and add this connection. - **The database list is empty.** Pick a connection first, at the top of the action. If it's still empty, nothing has been shared with the connection yet. - **The property list is empty.** Choose the database first. If the database comes from the trigger rather than being picked, the list stays empty — type the column names instead and the automation works them out when it runs. - **"That Notion database has no property called …"** The column name doesn't match. Notion column names are case-sensitive, and renaming a column in Notion doesn't update rules that name the old one. The message lists the columns the database actually has. - **"Notion computes … itself."** Formula, Rollup, Created time, Last edited by and ID columns are worked out by Notion — nothing can set them, including you, by hand. - **"… is a checkbox — use true or false."** Checkbox columns take `true` or `false`. An empty value leaves the column alone rather than unticking it, so say `false` if you mean unticked. - **"That Notion database has more than one data source."** Pick the one you want from the database list instead of pasting the database's link. - **"Notion refused this because the connection does not have that capability."** Commenting is a separate permission from writing pages, set on the connection in Notion's developer portal. Open the connection there and check its capabilities.