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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

Early access to new AI features

The Zapier team is hard at work developing new AI features that will benefit users. These features are released in the alpha phase to a select number of test users, and then in the beta phase when enough testing has been done to release it to a larger audience in a staged release to user groups. In other words, even though a feature might be released in beta, you might not have access to the feature. You can, however, sign up for Zapier’s Early Access Program to be included in the early-stage user testing groups. You can do that at https://zapier.com/early-access. You can also sign up for notifications specifically about new AI features due for release at https://zapier.com/ai.

You can read about some of the AI features in development in this article from Wade Foster, Zapier’s CEO: https://zapier.com/blog/ai-open-letter/, some of which we will cover in this chapter.

Important note

You must agree to Zapier’s AI Supplementary...