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Automate It with Zapier

You're reading from   Automate It with Zapier Boost your business productivity using effective workflow automation techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800208971
Length 618 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kelly Goss Kelly Goss
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Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Zapier
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Business Process Automation with Zapier FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Preparing to Automate Your Processes 4. Chapter 3: Building Your First Automated Workflow (Zap) 5. Chapter 4: Managing Your Zaps 6. Chapter 5: Troubleshooting and Handling Zap Errors 7. Section 2: Customizing Your Zaps with Built-in Apps by Zapier – Functionality and Practical Uses
8. Chapter 6: Creating Multi-Step Zaps and Using Built-In Apps 9. Chapter 7: Getting Started with Built-In Apps 10. Chapter 8: Built-In Communication Apps 11. Chapter 9: Exploring Built-In Apps for Extracting and Compiling Data 12. Chapter 10: Other Useful Built-In Apps by Zapier 13. Chapter 11: Advanced Built-In Apps by Zapier 14. Chapter 12: Managing Your Zapier Account with Built-In Apps 15. Section 3: Using the Features of the Formatter by Zapier Built-In App
16. Chapter 13: Formatting Date and Time 17. Chapter 14: Formatting Numbers 18. Chapter 15: Text Formatting Functions in Zapier – Part 1 19. Chapter 16: Text Formatting Functions in Zapier – Part 2 20. Chapter 17: Zapier's Utilities Functions 21. Section 4: Getting the Most Out of Zapier – Business Automation Examples
22. Chapter 18: Automating Your Marketing Processes 23. Chapter 19: Automating Your Sales Processes 24. Chapter 20: Automating Your Operations Processes 25. Chapter 21: Automating Your Finance and Reporting Processes 26. Chapter 22: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices to Enhance Your Productivity 27. Chapter 23: Challenge Your Problem-Solving and Zap-Building Skills 28. Other Books You May Enjoy

Picking data from a list

Have you ever wanted to run a quiz or assign a random result to your participants? Or perhaps you need to assign a support query to a member of your team based on a priority rating. You can easily do this by using the Formatter by Zapier Utilities action event with the Pick from List transform function to choose a value from a list based on its position.

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

  • You might create a single-question fun Q&A that you push out on social media to engage your audience with and drive traffic to your website. You ask them to complete one question in Google Forms, such as "What is your birth month?" and then randomly assign them an "inner mythical beast" based on their answer. You can pick a random result from a list of "inner mythical beast" values, such as Unicorn, Dragon, Pheonix, Kraken, and Pegasus, then display the result on a page on your website.
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