Hello,I need to send zaps that create a row in Google sheet. Colums are “email” | “Subject” | “Attachment” The email is always the same, it’s the system email. The subject line has 2 parts: The subject which is the same for all, and than another part of the subject line which is different in each email, and it’s the sender name. For example: subject: new form from ____ the line is the part that changes (sender name)How do I set it in my zap trigger? Thank you,Talia

How can I parse email subjects to create rows in Google sheets?

Hello,

I need to send zaps that create a row in Google sheet.
Colums are “email” | “Subject” | “Attachment”
The email is always the same, it’s the system email. The subject line has 2 parts: The subject which is the same for all, and than another part of the subject line which is different in each email, and it’s the sender name. For example: subject: new form from ____ the line is the part that changes (sender name)

How do I set it in my zap trigger?

Thank you,

Talia

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Hi @Talia

Good question.

Try using this Zap trigger: Gmail New Attachment

Thanks but unfortunately it didn’t work. I need a trigger that has a sentence with a sentence that after it comes a different name. for example:

Subject:contact form from _______ the line stands for the variant that in each subject line is different.

@Talia

The Gmail New Attachment trigger will include the Subject of the email. (see screenshot example)

If you are trying to parse out data from the Subject, then you can use Formatter > Text > Split

Hey there @Talia, Troy’s suggestion is on par for what I’d recommend as well. Were you able to give it a shot?

Unfortunately it didn’t work. Let me try to explain more:

Subject:Reservation of movie theater by John Doe

I need to separate the name John Doe because it is changed with every user.

The zap configuration should create a row in Google Sheets with the colums: date and name (e.g. John Doe).

date	name
12/18/2022	John Doe
12/19/2022	Jane Doe

Thanks so much for your support and sorry for the late reply.

Talia

Hi @Talia

Hm, I’m curious if you can share with us the configuration of the action step of your Zap? Seeing how you have it set up in Google Sheets will likely provide our culprit with where you are getting stuck.

Just a heads up before you post, we will need to have any personal info removed such as email, names, phone numbers. We hope to hear from you soon.

Hey @Talia

Happy to help! So, as long as the subject line stays the same (other than name) a formatter step I think would be your best bet. Rather than split text, perhaps replace?

More info on replace: https://zapier.com/blog/zapier-formatter-guide/#replace

Looking at a test I ran here..

You can see you have your subject line in the input, and we are asking the replace step to find the first half of the subject “reservation of movie theater by” and replace it with a space/nothing, so basically to delete it...

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