Question

Zap to move data from email attachment into a Google Sheets

  • 28 June 2023
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Hello, 

 

I am trying to automate moving data that is emailed to me as an attachment into an existing tab on a google sheet. I would like to overwrite the data on the sheet that it is added to. 

 

Here are are the details of the manual flow:

  1. Receive automated email with attachment (either ASCII or .xlsx file)
  2. Open file on desktop, copy and paste values into an existing tab on a google sheet (paste over old data as new data is always larger).

The total row count is ~12,000 and will probably not got above 16,000. 

 

I would like to make this process trigger automatically whenever a new email with attachment exists. 


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2 replies

Userlevel 7
Badge +14

Hi @joellis90 

Good question.

This will involve advanced approaches to configure.

The GSheets API can be used to clear a worksheet range of cells.

Zap action: GSheets - API Request

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Userlevel 6
Badge +8

That sounds similar to this workflow. Does that help?