Operations automations
Announce what landed in the shared folder
Reads a Dropbox folder each morning and posts the most recent arrivals to Slack.
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Free, and no card. It runs for real, five times.
What it does on a run
- 1Read the folder
- 2Say what is new without listing the archive
- 3Tell the team something arrived
When it runs
Every weekday at 9am. You can change the schedule in plain words after you start it.
What it needs
DropboxSlackConnected once, then reused by every automation that needs them.
Where it stops
It halts before the irreversible part and shows you what it is about to do. You see the message, the recipient and the data it read, and nothing is sent until you say so. Once you trust it, you can tell it to stop asking.
Free, and no card. It runs for real, five times.
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