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Published inAug 2023
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ISBN-139781803239842
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Kelly Goss
Kelly Goss
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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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Introducing the Formatter by Zapier Utilities action event

As we have discovered so far, Formatter by Zapier can easily be used to transform a wide range of values from one format into another. We have explored how to manipulate dates and times, numbers, and text into different formats. You might want to upload data from CSV files to use in your automations, find related data such as user IDs linked to a user’s email address, select a value in a specific position in a list such as the first or last, or you might need to manipulate data in the form of line items, which are commonly used in invoicing and e-commerce apps. To account for these requirements, Zapier has created a grouping of these functions in the Formatter by Zapier built-in app, which is available by using the Utilities action event.

When using this action event, you can use the following Utilities transform options. These can be found within the Action section of your action step, listed in the Transform drop...

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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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