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Hmm in this demo the interface looks exactly like Zapier (automation service).. wonder what relationship they have: https://zapier.com
From the article:
> Some of the companies that built solutions based on the new API during the preview period include Zapier, Netflix, Mailchimp and Final Draft.
FYI the Python quickstart.py is broken on Ubuntu 18.04 (tried both python2 and python3). I've notified the eng in the video, and sent her here. By definition, credentials.json doesn't exist yet and this throws an error. Transcript below. creds = None if os.path.exists('token.pickle'): ... # If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in. if not creds or not creds.valid: if creds and creds.expired…
Read the document you linked: https://developers.google.com/docs/api/quickstart/python
Read directly above and below the giant blue "ENABLE THE GOOGLE DOCS API" button.
Hmm in this demo the interface looks exactly like Zapier (automation service).. wonder what relationship they have: https://zapier.com
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For those of us who work in Docs on a daily basis, it sure does.
Same could be said about Office, yet I don't see posts about minor stuff like this for it.
The upside to a system like that is, the authorization flow is abstracted completely out and handled by Google. You just pick from a dropdown as far as who you want to have access to the Web App URL, and you don't have to deal at all with setting up an OAuth flow.
1. https://developers.google.com/apps-script/
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Maybe? But what's the average life expectancy of a particular workflow? As long as the feature outlives my workflow, I'm a happy camper.
I can’t speak to workflow longevity. My assumption, based on enterprise work experience, is that corporations using Office 365 and MS Flow are going to prefer that workflow over Google Docs (and they’re probably already federated to Azure AD, making access control easy peasy). People want to derisk what they deliver, and want to keep their jobs. Microsoft delivers on that, Google does not. This isn’t about emotion, i…
They will have a lot of catchup to do to get where Office is now. I'm frankly amazed by how good Microsoft Flow has been. So many dumb business processes rely on an Excel doc somewhere, or a stupid manual email somewhere else. But with Flow I've seen just a single smarty-pants able to fully streamline an entire department one rule at a time. They don't need to get permission to bring in a new logo - it's part of Offi…
My team does analytics consulting work for large multi-agency marketing campaigns, and I used Flow and a shared mailbox to create sanity around managing the constant flood of daily/weekly/monthly data snapshots that get emailed and have to be synthesized and combined for end reporting/analysis.
I was also able to use Flow and PowerBI to duct tape together a "starter data lake" architecture for our marketing clients. It's been a wild success with clients, due in part because of it's price (in context to their expectations for traditional "data lake pitches") but even more so due to the fact that it gets rubber stamped through any IT review thanks to being all part of Microsoft. It fits most clients workflows and data volumes, and seamlessly transitions to a true data lake by pulling in Azure services as needs mature.
Most marketing departments are swimming in data but pretty lacking in their access to technical and process/operations resources to truly manage and leverage it. Flow has been a fantastic tool to introduce structured data management and automation for these clients, as it's low cost enough to slide under the radar, already implicitly allowed software as part of their Office 365 license, and gives them tangible results to show when asking for more budget to develop/mature it further. It's far from my favorite stack to use, but it's good enough to get the job done and breezes through all of the checks and objections and red tape that would make virtually any other stack dead on arrival.
This will be nice until they take it away...