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Popular Dropbox and Slack workflows and automations
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1.5k - Get Slack notifications when a file is uploaded to Dropbox4
- New files in your Public folder will post to a Slack channel171
- New photos in your Public folder will post to a Slack channel31
Useful Dropbox and Slack integrations
Triggers (If this)
- New file in your folderThis Trigger fires every time any file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
- Any new shared file linkThis trigger fires every time a shared link for a file is created. Note: doesn't include folders.
- New text file in your folderThis Trigger fires every time any text file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
- New photo in your folderThis Trigger fires every time a photo is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 photos per polling period.
Queries (With)
- History of photos in your folderThis query returns a list of every time a photo is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 photos per polling period.
- History of files in your folderThis query returns a list of every time any file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
- History of text files in your folderThis query returns a list of every time any text file is saved in the folder you specify. NOTE: will process up to 15 files per polling period.
- Find file by nameThis query returns a list of files searched by name you specify.
- File metadataThis query returns the metadata of a file.
- List shared file linksThis query returns all shared file links. Note: doesn't include folders.
Actions (Then that)
- Revoke shared linkThis action will revoke the direct link to the file. Note: the file may still be accessible if there are shared links leading to any of the file parent folders.
Post to channelThis Action will post a message to the channel you choose in Slack.- Add file from URLThis Action will download a file at a given URL and add it to Dropbox at the path you specify. NOTE: 30 MB file size limit.
- Move file or folderThis action will move a file or a folder to new location.
- Create a text fileThis Action will create a new text file at the path you specify.
- Append to a text fileThis Action will append to a text file as determined by the file name and folder path you specify. Once a file’s size reaches 2MB a new file will be created.
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