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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

Keeping your Zaps organized

In Chapter 3, Building Your First Automated Workflow (Zap), we worked through the steps required to create your first workflow automation. As you repeat that process, you will build more Zaps to automate your other business processes. It will eventually become more of a priority to ensure that you have created a system for organizing your workflows. It is, therefore, a good practice to understand how best to keep your Zaps organized and start this process when you only have a few workflows built.

These are a couple of steps you can take to help you to keep your Zaps organized:

  • Labeling your Zaps adequately
  • Using folders and sub-folders in the Zap management area

Let’s discuss each of them.

Labeling your Zaps adequately

From an organizational perspective, you should name your Zaps with sufficient information to ensure a title is descriptive enough to understand what the Zap does. Labeling your Zaps in the right way will...