Bring important Drive updates to your team
Let your team know when a file they care about changes, without asking everyone to keep checking Drive.
Trigger
File Updated
Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Action
Publish Message
Tool to publish a message to a specified messaging channel. use when you need to send notifications or events to subscribers after confirming channel and payload.
Why this helps
Important document changes can go unnoticed when collaborators are working across several apps.
- Bring file changes into a shared channel.
- Make recent updates easier to notice.
- Reduce repeated manual checks for document changes.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Drive and Backendless once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation named Drive update team alert.
- 3Tell Notis to publish a concise channel message with available details about the changed file.
- 4Pick the Google Drive File Updated trigger and choose where run reports go.
- 5Test with one real file update.
Questions about this workflow
What counts as an update?
The event fires when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Can I limit alerts to a particular file?
Notis triggers do not use user-built filters. Ask Notis to assess event details if a distinction is needed.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Drive to Backendless. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Drive triggers
Backendless actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Copy File
Tool to copy a file or directory within backendless file storage. use when duplicating files to a new location after verifying source and destination paths.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Directory
Tool to create a new directory at the specified path. use when you need to organize files under a new folder structure.
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Create Backendless Hive
Tool to create a new hive. use when you need to provision a new hive resource before performing hive operations. example: create a hive named 'grocerystore'.
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
Create Backendless Timer
Tool to create a new timer with schedule and code. use when scheduling recurring or one-off tasks to run server-side logic after confirming parameters.
File Deleted or Trashed
Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.
Delete Directory
Tool to delete a directory at the specified path in backendless file storage. use when you need to remove folders after confirming the path.
File Shared (Permissions Added)
Triggers when new sharing permissions are granted to a file or folder. Uses Drive's `changes.list` endpoint with inline `permissions` in the `fields` mask so each change carries the file's current permission set provider-atomically. We diff that against `seen_permission_keys` to identify newly added grants. Drive page tokens are the primary cursor; if Drive rejects a stored token, the trigger raises `PollingTriggerError` without clearing state rather than silently re-baselining and dropping events. Limitation: truly ephemeral permissions (added and revoked between two polls without any other file modification in between) are not detected. Drive Activity API would catch those but requires an additional OAuth scope and a different payload contract.
Delete File
Tool to delete a file at the specified path in backendless file storage. use after confirming the file's relative path and filename.
File Updated
Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Delete Backendless Timer
Tool to delete a backendless timer by name. use when you need to remove a scheduled timer after confirming its name.
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
Directory Listing
Tool to retrieve a listing of files and directories at a given path. use when browsing or filtering file storage directories.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
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