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Kelly Goss
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Kelly Goss is a process automation specialist and company director for Solvaa, a cloud-based automation consultancy. She has worked across multiple industry verticals for providing Zapier consultancy, digital process improvement, process mapping and process automation solutions. Kelly is a Zapier Certified Expert and a speaker at multiple events related to automation.
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Storage by Zapier – saving and storing data

There may be many scenarios where it would be useful to be able to store small sets of data for use in your workflows. The Storage by Zapier built-in app allows you to save and retrieve small data values. With it, you can store reference data each time a Zap runs and then share it with other Zaps by retrieving it.

Storage by Zapier does not operate with user accounts. Instead, you must specify a secret storage key in the format of a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID4), which acts much like a password, to identify and group storage data. You would then use this secret storage key to identify where to add data to and retrieve data from. By doing this, you can have multiple storage keys that identify your storage locations.

You can store individual values or lists of values. You can also use child values (nested values of data) if you want to store and retrieve several values related to a unique identifier – for example...

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Published in: Aug 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803239842

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Kelly Goss

Kelly Goss is a process automation specialist and company director for Solvaa, a cloud-based automation consultancy. She has worked across multiple industry verticals for providing Zapier consultancy, digital process improvement, process mapping and process automation solutions. Kelly is a Zapier Certified Expert and a speaker at multiple events related to automation.
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