Refresh market demographics before annual planning
Start annual planning with an updated, documented view of the population and households in your priority markets.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Create a File from Text
Creates a new file in google drive from provided text content (up to 10mb), supporting various formats including automatic conversion to google workspace types.
Why this helps
Annual plans can carry forward last year's geographic assumptions without anyone checking the data.
- Gather a consistent demographic set before annual planning begins.
- Keep the data period and geographies with the planning report.
- Make year over year changes easier to review.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Census bureau and Google Drive once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name the annual refresh.
- 3Ask Notis to retrieve your chosen measures and geographies, compare with the prior available period, and prepare an annual planning summary.
- 4Choose an annual schedule, select where run reports go, and test with one real example.
Questions about this workflow
Will the report always contain data for the current year?
Census measures have specific release and reference periods. The report should show the latest available period instead of implying same-year data is available.
Can I include our planning assumptions?
Yes. Include those assumptions in the instruction or request and ask Notis to keep them distinct from Census statistics.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Census bureau to Google Drive. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Census bureau triggers
Google Drive actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Add file sharing preference
Modifies sharing permissions for an existing google drive file, granting a specified role to a user, group, domain, or 'anyone'.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Copy file
Duplicates an existing file in google drive, identified by its `file id`.
Create Comment
Tool to create a comment on a file. use when you need to add a new comment to a specific file in google drive.
Create Shared Drive
Tool to create a new shared drive. use when you need to programmatically create a new shared drive for collaboration or storage.
Create File or Folder
Creates a new file or folder with metadata. use to create empty files or folders, or files with content by providing it in the request body (though this action primarily focuses on metadata creation).
Create a File from Text
Creates a new file in google drive from provided text content (up to 10mb), supporting various formats including automatic conversion to google workspace types.
Create a folder
Creates a new folder in google drive, optionally within a parent folder specified by its id or name; if a parent name is provided but not found, the action will fail.
Create Reply
Tool to create a reply to a comment in google drive. use when you need to respond to an existing comment on a file.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Census bureau and Google Drive, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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