Give your project a useful record of Drive changes
A clear summary of Drive activity helps everyone catch up without checking every file individually.
Trigger
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
Action
Create Document in Vault
Tool to create a new document in a Basecamp vault. Use when you need to publish a document in a specific project vault with title, HTML content, and optional publication status.
Why this helps
Multiple Drive changes are hard to track when the project team has no shared summary of recent activity.
- Give project members one place to review detected changes.
- Reduce manual scanning across Drive activity.
- Make catch-up easier after time away from a project.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Drive and Basecamp once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation from Automations, New Automation, or tell Notis what you want from any channel.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to summarize the detected Drive changes and publish the summary as a Basecamp Vault document.
- 4Pick the Google Drive Changes trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real change event and review the summary.
Questions about this workflow
How is this different from the file updated trigger?
Google Drive Changes is a broad changes-detected trigger. File Updated is specific to a file's metadata or content changing.
Does the summary include every detail about a change?
It can include only information provided by the trigger and available to Notis.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Google Drive to Basecamp. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Google Drive triggers
Basecamp actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Complete To-Do
Tool to mark a to-do as completed in Basecamp. Use when you need to complete a to-do item.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Card in Column
Tool to create a new card in a column of a Basecamp card table. Use when you need to add a card to a card table column with optional content and due date.
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
Create Step in Card
Tool to create a step within a card in a Basecamp card table. Use when you need to add a subtask or checklist item to an existing card with optional due date and assignees.
File Created
Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.
Create Chatbot
Tool to create a new chatbot in a Basecamp Campfire chat. Use when you need to add an automated bot to a chat room for posting messages and responding to commands.
File Deleted or Trashed
Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.
Create Chatbot Line
Tool to post a message as a chatbot to a Basecamp Campfire. Use when you need to post messages via a chatbot integration without OAuth authentication.
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.
Create Document in Vault
Tool to create a new document in a Basecamp vault. Use when you need to publish a document in a specific project vault with title, HTML content, and optional publication status.
File Updated
Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Create Project from Template
Tool to create a new project from a Basecamp template asynchronously. Use when you need to instantiate a project based on an existing template. Poll the returned URL to monitor construction progress until status becomes 'completed'.
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
Create To-Do (Deprecated)
DEPRECATED: Use BASECAMP_POST_BUCKETS_TODOLISTS_TODOS instead. Tool to create a new to-do in a Basecamp to-do list. Use when you need to add a task with optional description, assignees, and due date.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Google Drive and Basecamp, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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