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Published inAug 2023
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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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Picking data from a list

Have you ever wanted to run a quiz or assign a random result to your participants? Or perhaps you need to assign a support query to a member of your team based on a priority rating. You can easily do this by using the Formatter by Zapier Utilities action event with the Pick from List transform function to choose a value from a list based on its position.

Here are a couple of examples of when you can use this transform option:

  • You might create a single-question, fun Q&A that you push out on social media to engage your audience and drive traffic to your website. You ask them to complete one question in Google Forms, such as “What is your birth month?” and then randomly assign them an “inner mythical beast” based on their answer. You can pick a random result from a list of “inner mythical beast” values, such as Unicorn, Dragon, Pheonix, Kraken, and Pegasus, then display the result on a page on your website...
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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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