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Turn a resilience data request into a ready summary

When another tool sends a request, Notis can retrieve the requested Community Resilience Estimates and prepare a concise analysis.

Trigger

Webhook received

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

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

A resilience data request can be easy to lose between intake and analysis, especially when year, variables, and geography need to be gathered first.

  • Starts the research from an HTTP request
  • Keeps required year, variables, and geography visible
  • Returns a summary and highlights absent request details

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Census bureau once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, and name the resilience analysis.
  • 3Tell Notis in one instruction to use the request details to select variables and geography, retrieve Community Resilience Estimates for the specified year, and summarize results while flagging missing inputs.
  • 4Pick the Notis webhook trigger and choose a report channel.
  • 5Test with one real request containing a year, variables, and geography, then review the returned summary.

Questions about this workflow

What information should the request provide?

The retrieval needs a year, selected variables, and geography. The instruction should have Notis flag absent or ambiguous details rather than infer them.

Does the webhook trigger choose the Census variables?

No. The trigger starts the automation from an HTTP request. Your instruction and request context must provide the variables or a clear way to select them.

When this happens · Trigger

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Supported Triggers and Actions

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

Google Drive 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

Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)

Triggers when a new comment is added to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.

TriggerPolling

Get American Business Survey

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

ActionInstant

File Created

Triggers when a new file is created in Google Drive.

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

File Deleted or Trashed

Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.

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

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.

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

File Updated

Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.

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

Google Drive Changes

Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.

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

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