Hi guys, I’m trying to create a flow that does the following:
Can you create a flow that does this. When I send in a message in private slack that says "Create a folder for me, name it xxxx" It will automactly create that folder and according to the name I mentioned in the message.
But it is showing this error in step 2. Any idea on how to resolve this issue? And if my flow was correct?
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The closing parenthesis looks to be italicized.
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The examples from Slack don’t show the example pulled into the Zap trigger:
That’s weird… Because in the slack message I sent there isn’t a “_” anywhere, but it is in Zapier. (See screenshot below)
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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
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We would need to see updated screenshots with how your GDrive Zap step is configured.
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 “_”?
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Yay! That’s fabulous news
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Hi
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?
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Try this regex pattern:
\((.*?)\)
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…
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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.
I just remapped, and still has the same result when i run test in the last step.
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You may need to remap the condition variable in Step 2.
You may need to remap the Input field in Step 3.
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No screenshots were posted.
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.
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Hi
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
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