Ryan,
That's what we used to do on computer and remote desktops behind the scenes in the past, before cloud was popular and all.
Zapier's design is definitely a thing folks learned from the backend architectures for the cloud. You can tell because it reminds one of Microsoft's Power Automate.
I'm very sure it would be safer if you simply used the Google Suite applications to do all that work. The only thing is that you would have to spend time doing some programming yourself. I'm very sure that you can make it safe if you keep your codes and the
data to yourself.
Using outside Saas products like Zapier, it can be safe, too. However, if it is using Google Suite applications, I cannot tell how safe it can be, since it requires you to go through tons of permission prompts to make sure various applications and files communicate
with one another.
Thank you,
Daisy Nip, Systemwide Data Analyst
California Digital Library, UC Office of the President
daisy.nip@ucop.edu | (626) 929 - 1689
(she/her) | Name pronunciation
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Hello All,
Since our ai-sig listserv has been created, I figured that I would kick off the conversation. This week, I discovered a new cool tool, called Zapier (
https://zapier.com/), which allows one to automate workflows.
Zapier includes Microsoft Co-Pilot to help one create workflows and some workflow templates already exist. As the new Aha admin, I'm using Zapier to create a "zap", which retrieves the CSV file attachment in Gmail, which I'm sending of all the enhancements
at 2am PST and it uploads and replaces the file as a Google spreadsheet on Google Drive. I'm then able to share the link to the Google spreadsheet in Aha. It is labeled "Export all enhancement requests (current as of 10am UTC)". We're using UTC as the Aha
system is being used both ELUNA and IGeLU.
Does anyone know of any other tools, which may be useful in automating processes, even with built-in AI?
Thanks,
Ryan
Ryan Edwards, MIT, MLIS, & CASDL
Tenured Systems Librarian/Associate Professor
ASCCC OERI Liaison
ZTC Degree Program Grant Faculty Coordinator
ELUNA Steering Committee
Rialto Liaison and
Secretary
West Los Angeles College
Library and Learning Resources Division
9000 Overland Avenue
Culver City, CA 90230
(310) 287-9020
edwardre@laccd.edu
