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Automate It with Zapier and Generative AI - Second Edition

By : Kelly Goss
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Automate It with Zapier and Generative AI - Second Edition

By: Kelly Goss

Overview of this book

Organizations experience significant issues with productivity when dealing with manual and repetitive tasks. Automate it with Zapier and Generative AI, second edition has been extensively revised to help you analyze your processes and identify repetitive tasks that can be automated between 6000+ cloud-based business applications. This book includes all Zapier’s newest features such as AI functionality using the ChatGPT plugin, drafts, reordering and duplicating steps and paths, subfolders and version history, as well as built-in apps such as Looping, Sub-Zap, Interfaces, Tables, and Transfer. The chapters also contain examples covering various use cases sourced from the Zapier user community. You'll learn how to implement automation in your organization along with key principles and terminology, and take the first steps toward using Zapier. As you advance, you'll learn how to use Zapier’s native functionality and all 27 built-in apps such as Filter, Paths, Formatter, Digest, and Scheduler to enable you to build multi-step Zaps. You’ll also discover how to manage your Zapier account effectively, as well as how to troubleshoot technical problems with your workflows, and use the OpenAI integration to automate AI tasks. By the end of this book, you'll be able to automate your manual and repetitive tasks using Zapier.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with Zapier
7
Part 2: Customizing Your Zaps with Built-in Apps by Zapier – Functionality and Practical Uses
16
Part 3: Using the Features of the Formatter by Zapier Built-In App
22
Part 4: Getting the Most Out of Zapier

Applying title case to a string of words

Following on from the Capitalize transform function, there may be times when you only want to capitalize the first letter of each word in a string of text if it isn’t an article, conjunction, or preposition – in other words, any nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs – as well as the first word in a title or subtitle. This is known as title case, where all major words have the first letter capitalized, and all minor words have the first letter remain lowercase. It is commonly used in titles of books, songs, movies, and blog articles. In this case, you should use the Formatter by Zapier Text action event with the Titlecase transform function. For example, if the string of text were this is an example of the best test to use, the transformed text would be This Is an Example of the Best Test to Use.

Here are a few examples of when you can use this transform option:

  • When your blog writers add a new draft...