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Review community resilience every quarter

Give risk and resilience a regular place in planning instead of a one-time research sprint.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

Action

Get Community Resilience Estimates

Tool to retrieve community resilience estimates for a specified year. use after selecting variables and geography to get cre data for analysis.

Why this helps

Resilience factors disappear from planning when review depends on someone remembering to ask.

  • Creates a recurring resilience checkpoint
  • Keeps planning context current
  • Supports clearer risk conversations

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Google Docs and Census bureau in Notis once.
  • 2Create an automation named Quarterly Resilience Risk Review.
  • 3Tell Notis to retrieve Community Resilience Estimates for the configured geographies and year, then summarize planning-relevant indicators and changes from the supplied baseline.
  • 4Pick a Notis cron schedule and choose where run reports go.
  • 5Test with one real scheduled run.

Questions about this workflow

What geographies are supported?

Use the geographies supported by the selected Community Resilience Estimates dataset.

Can it compare quarters?

Yes, if you provide prior reports or a baseline for comparison.

When this happens · Trigger

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Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Google Docs to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Google Docs triggers

Census bureau actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Get ACS 1-Year Estimates

Tool to retrieve 1-year american community survey (acs) estimates for a specified geography. use when you need the most recent annual acs data for a given area.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Get ACS 5-Year Estimates

Tool to retrieve 5-year american community survey estimates for a specified year. use when detailed acs data by geography and variables is required.

ActionInstant

New Document Created

Triggers when a new Google Doc is created. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when new documents are detected. Uses timestamp filtering to efficiently poll for new documents.

TriggerPolling

Get American Business Survey

Tool to retrieve annual business survey (abs) data for a specified year and endpoint.

ActionInstant

Document Deleted

Triggers when an existing Google Doc is deleted (moved to trash). This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when documents are trashed.

TriggerPolling

Get Community Resilience Estimates

Tool to retrieve community resilience estimates for a specified year. use after selecting variables and geography to get cre data for analysis.

ActionInstant

Document Placeholder Filled

Triggers when a Google Doc's plain text changes such that a configured placeholder token/pattern is no longer present (i.e., the document has been filled in). This trigger monitors a specific Google Doc and fires when a placeholder pattern that was previously present is no longer found in the document's plain text.

TriggerPolling

Get County Business Patterns

Tool to retrieve county business patterns (cbp) data for a specified year. use when you need county-level business establishment and employment statistics filtered by industry and geography.

ActionInstant

Document Search Update

Triggers when a Google Doc matching a user-defined search query is newly created or updated since the last poll. This trigger uses timestamp filtering to efficiently monitor documents.

TriggerPolling

Get Decennial Census Data

Tool to retrieve decennial census data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need census variables for a given geography.

ActionInstant

Document Structure Changed

Triggers when a Google Doc's structure changes (headers/footers added/removed, tables/images count changes). This trigger monitors a specific document for structural changes like: - Headers added or removed - Footers added or removed - Tables added or removed - Images (inline objects) added or removed - Positioned objects added or removed - Footnotes added or removed

TriggerPolling

Get Population Estimates

Tool to retrieve population estimates program (pep) data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need population or demographic estimates for specific geographies.

ActionInstant

Document Updated

Triggers when an existing Google Doc is updated or modified. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when documents are updated.

TriggerPolling

Get Variable Details

Tool to retrieve metadata for a specific variable in a census dataset for a given year. use when you need the label, concept, data type, attribute codes, and valid-value constraints.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Google Docs and Census bureau, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

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