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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

Where to start with automating your operations processes with Zapier

It is always good to do some pre-work before you start automating your processes. In Chapter 2, Preparing to Automate Your Processes, and Chapter 3, Building Your First Automated Workflow (Zap), we covered a few important points that will help you when you are strategizing your operations workflows, and they are as follows:

  1. Map out your operations processes: If you don’t have a clear idea of how your operations processes work with all your tools, follow the steps in the Simplifying your processes and assessing what can be automated section in Chapter 2, Preparing to Automate Your Processes, to visually map out your processes so that you have a high-level overview of how your tasks work with your existing software.
  2. List your operations tools: Make a list of all the operations tools and services that you use in your business to achieve your goals. Then, assess how these tools fit within your mapped...