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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

Summary

In this chapter, we covered how you can boost your productivity by combining AI and automation. We explored some of Zapier’s built-in AI functionality as well as AI app integrations with Zapier.

First, we explored how to get early access to new Zapier features that have incorporated AI functionality, then we covered an overview of the Create a Zap feature. Next, we looked at the NLA and AI Actions functionality in the Zapier Chrome extension and ChatGPT plugin. Then, we explored how to create AI chatbots with Zapier Interfaces. Next, we covered a few new built-in apps and features such as AI-powered Formatter by Zapier steps, AI-powered Code by Zapier steps, AI-powered troubleshooting, and the AI by Zapier built-in app. Finally, we explored the ChatGPT and OpenAI integrations with Zapier and the basics of GPT AI prompting.

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