Hi @greysonz1997 

Good question.

In the Filter step condition, you’ll want to remove the ()

It’s a warning (not an error), indicating the Zap would not have continued based on the test data from Step 1 that you are using.

Help article about how to change the trigger test data: https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496310366093

Thanks Troy, so I changed it this what the step 2 looks like now. However in step 3, it seems like it is still not finding the slack message that contain the keywords “Create a folder for me, name it”. When I test it in step 4, the folder created in goolge is called “true”. Please see screenshots below.

@greysonz1997 

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Apologies. Please see attached below

@greysonz1997 

You may need to remap the condition variable in Step 2.

You may need to remap the Input field in Step 3.

I just remapped, and still has the same result when i run test in the last step.

@greysonz1997 

The variable you have mapped in step 4 is indicating there was a match found (true).

Try mapping a different variable from the output of Step 3.

These are all the options I have to choose from, i tried all of them under “extract the folder name from the message”,  but non of them give’s me the correct folder name in Gdrive…

@greysonz1997

Try this regex pattern:

\((.*?)\)

Where exactly do i put this pattern after or on?

Hi @greysonz1997 

Hope you don’t mind me jumping in to see if I can lend a hand with this! 

You’d want to put the Regex pattern that Troy suggested directly into the Pattern field on that Formatter action:


Can you give that a try and let us know if that allows it to extract the folder name from the message?

Oh wow, it worked. THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!

Yay! That’s fabulous news @greysonz1997. I’m so pleased that Regex pattern Troy suggested that did the trick! 

One more question. The folder is created now, but it has this “_” after the name I send in the slack. Is there a way to get ride of the “_”?

@greysonz1997 

We would need to see updated screenshots with how your GDrive Zap step is configured.

Here is screenshot for each steps.

@greysonz1997 

This was the Text value from Slack with had a trailing _

This was the extracted pattern value from the Formatter step which had the trailing _.

Bad DATA IN = Bad DATA OUT

That’s weird… Because in the slack message I sent there isn’t a “_” anywhere, but it is in Zapier. (See screenshot below)

@greysonz1997 

The examples from Slack don’t show the example pulled into the Zap trigger:

@greysonz1997 

The closing parenthesis looks to be italicized.

Gotcha, it worked now. Thank you!