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  • Creating google drive folders from google form responses, but does not create one if it already excist or has a small variation of it.

Hello there Zapier Community!

We've been doing Zapier for a while and so far we love it. We're only stuck with a certain Zap.

Description:

So what we would like is that we create a folder in Google Drive for a specific customer from a Google Form Response. So there is a possibility that two customers have to fill in the forum for 1 product. These customers then fill in the same title of the product, but sometimes in a different way.

Now my question is whether this can be checked for certain words by means of filters, whether or not zapier creates it.

We've been looking and trying for a while but it doesn't work.

Hope you can help me!

Hi @Kelvin Ruijters ,

 

If I understand correctly, you do NOT want to create a folder if it already exists in Google Drive? In order to do that, the best way is to use the action “Find a Folder” in “Google Drive” and click on “Create Google Drive Folder if it doesn’t exist yet?”. 

 

Doe that help ? 

Hi there MohSwellam,

Thanks for the response! Yes we have done that, but the thing is that some clients fill in the same name slightly different. We’re looking for a way that it can recognize only one or two words. If then Zapier finds it, it won’t create a new one. 

Example

1ste client: Kelvin - Crab House (feat. Rutger) 

2nd client: Kelvin x Rutger - Crab House

 

It’s the same project, but they name it differently, so we’re looking for a way that Zapier is only recognizing two words. In this case ‘Crab’ and ‘House’

 

Thanks for taking the time btw! Really appreciate it 

Hi @Kelvin Ruijters 

 

Unfortunately that wouldn't be possible using the native integration, you can however use Webhooks by Zapier to do that fuzzy match

 

 

You can check the process for that here :) 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63380934/folder-search-for-title-contains-is-doing-a-fuzzy-search-not-exact

Hi @MohSwellam,

Ah that’s unfortunately, but we’ll have a look into it. Thanks for helping me out!

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