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Automated Contact Team Sharing

New contacts forwarded via email lack context. This automation shares new Salesforce contacts with your team in Google Drive, giving them a Drive link with complete contact information instead of just a forwarded email with limited details.

Trigger

New Contact Trigger

Triggers when a new Contact is Created in Salesforce.

Action

Add file sharing preference

Modifies sharing permissions for an existing google drive file, granting a specified role to a user, group, domain, or 'anyone'.

Why this helps

New contacts are forwarded via email without context. Team members don't have all the information they need, creating confusion and missed opportunities.

  • Share new contacts with complete information instantly
  • Reduce confusion caused by incomplete email forwards
  • Give team members full contact context immediately
  • Improve team collaboration on new relationships

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Salesforce and Google Drive to Notis in the portal.
  • 2Create an automation by asking Notis 'When a new contact is added to Salesforce, create a contact summary in Google Drive and share it with my team' or use Automations -> New Automation.
  • 3Set your trigger to 'New Contact Trigger' and choose your notification channel.
  • 4Describe who to share with (e.g., 'the sales team' or 'my manager') and what permission level (e.g., 'read-only access') in plain language.
  • 5Test by creating a new contact in Salesforce and verify the team receives access to the contact information in Drive.

Questions about this workflow

What contact information should be shared?

Specify in your prompt (e.g., 'Share name, email, phone, company, title, and LinkedIn profile'). Notis will include those details.

Who should have access to new contact shares?

Describe in your prompt (e.g., 'Share with the sales team' or 'Share with account managers only' or 'Share with the person's assigned territory'). Notis will share appropriately.

What permission level should shared contacts have?

Specify in your prompt (e.g., 'Read-only access' or 'Edit access for notes'). Notis will apply the permission.

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Supported Triggers and Actions

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

Salesforce triggers

Google Drive actions

Account Created or Updated

Triggers when an Account is created or updated in Salesforce. Uses LastModifiedDate high-watermark to capture both creations and updates.

TriggerPolling

Add file sharing preference

Modifies sharing permissions for an existing google drive file, granting a specified role to a user, group, domain, or 'anyone'.

ActionInstant

Contact Updated

Triggers when an existing Salesforce Contact record is modified. Emits changed fields alongside relevant timestamps.

TriggerPolling

Copy file

Duplicates an existing file in google drive, identified by its `file id`.

ActionInstant

Record Updated (Generic SObject)

Triggers when monitored fields change on any Salesforce SObject. You specify the SObject type and which field values should be returned in the payload. The trigger uses SystemModstamp to detect changes regardless of which specific field changed.

TriggerPolling

Create Comment

Tool to create a comment on a file. use when you need to add a new comment to a specific file in google drive.

ActionInstant

New Contact Trigger

Triggers when a new Contact is Created in Salesforce.

TriggerPolling

Create Shared Drive

Tool to create a new shared drive. use when you need to programmatically create a new shared drive for collaboration or storage.

ActionInstant

New Lead Trigger

Triggers when a new Lead is created in Salesforce.

TriggerPolling

Create File or Folder

Creates a new file or folder with metadata. use to create empty files or folders, or files with content by providing it in the request body (though this action primarily focuses on metadata creation).

ActionInstant

New or Updated Opportunity

Triggers when a Salesforce Opportunity is created or updated.

TriggerPolling

Create a File from Text

Creates a new file in google drive from provided text content (up to 10mb), supporting various formats including automatic conversion to google workspace types.

ActionInstant

Task Created or Completed

Triggers when a Task is created or when its status changes to Completed in Salesforce. Supports optional filtering by task Status or Subject.

TriggerPolling

Create a folder

Creates a new folder in google drive, optionally within a parent folder specified by its id or name; if a parent name is provided but not found, the action will fail.

ActionInstant

Create Reply

Tool to create a reply to a comment in google drive. use when you need to respond to an existing comment on a file.

ActionInstant

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