Watch county business activity every month
See local business activity regularly without rebuilding the same Census query.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
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.
Why this helps
County industry monitoring is easy to postpone when each update requires manual setup.
- Monitor local industry movement
- Support expansion decisions
- Receive a consistent monthly brief
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Census bureau in Notis once.
- 2Create the automation and describe the counties and industries to watch.
- 3Pick the notis_cron trigger and schedule.
- 4Choose a report channel.
- 5Run one test for a selected county and industry.
Questions about this workflow
What does County Business Patterns include?
It can provide county level business establishment and employment statistics for requested industries and years.
Can I monitor several counties?
Yes. Include each county in the automation instruction.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link One drive to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
One drive triggers
Census bureau actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
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Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
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.
Onedrivebasetrigger
Base trigger for OneDrive changes using Gmail-style state management. Subclasses override `filter_changes(...)` to extract only the relevant items.
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OneDrive File Created Trigger
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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.
File Updated
Trigger that fires when a OneDrive file's content or metadata changes. Returns file ID, last modified time, and modifier info.
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.
OneDrive Folder Created Trigger
Triggers when a new folder is created in OneDrive. Uses Gmail-style state management for reliable duplicate prevention.
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.
OneDrive Item Deleted Trigger
Triggers when a file or folder is deleted in OneDrive. Uses Gmail-style state management for reliable duplicate prevention.
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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.
Item Moved or Renamed
Triggers when a file or folder is moved to a different path or renamed in OneDrive. Includes both old and new path/name data in the payload.
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.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
One drive and Census bureau, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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