Review Cats Portals on a Schedule
A scheduled portal review keeps your Cats environment visible during ongoing Canvas work, without another task to remember.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get Portals
Tool to list all portals. use when you need to browse portal metadata with pagination after authentication.
Why this helps
Portal status can drift between course events, leaving you to discover issues during a deadline.
- Create a regular portal visibility habit
- Catch metadata changes between Canvas events
- Keep operational reports easy to scan
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Canvas and Cats once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation instructing Notis to retrieve Cats portal metadata and summarize it for current Canvas operations.
- 3Pick a Notis cron trigger and set the recurring schedule.
- 4Choose the destination for run reports.
- 5Test with one manual run using the real connected apps.
Questions about this workflow
Does the schedule read Canvas records?
The workflow uses the schedule as its trigger and the Cats action to list portal metadata. Add any needed Canvas context in the instruction.
Can I schedule this daily?
Yes. Choose the recurring schedule supported by the Notis cron trigger.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Canvas to Cats. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Canvas triggers
Cats actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get Portals
Tool to list all portals. use when you need to browse portal metadata with pagination after authentication.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
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