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Autopilot user guide

Example prompts

Example prompts for Autopilot actions, including expressions and workflow generation.

This page collects example prompts for Autopilot actions. For prompting best practices, refer to the Prompting guide.

For expressions

Here are some examples of how you can write effective prompts for expressions in Studio.

Date and time

  • Find the next Sunday date.
  • Download emails received today with the date format "dd/mm/yyyy".
  • Convert from format "MM/dd/yyyy hh : mm : ss" to format "yyyy-MM-dd hh : mm : ss".
  • Put a one second delay.

Text and number

  • Get last 4 digits.
  • Get filename from full path.
  • Verify if the result is a palindrome.
  • Return the first palindrome number greater than 152.

Data operations

  • Fix the expression by declaring and initializing the variable before calling the first method on it.
  • Store the list of strings inside an array.

Files operations

  • Get all .pdf files from the folder.

Excel operations

  • Read ranges B3 to B9 from the Excel sheet.

For workflows

Here are some examples of how you can write effective prompts for workflows in Studio.

Storage services

  • When a new PDF is created in OneDrive, split its pages into separate files.
  • Combine all PDF files in a OneDrive folder into a single PDF file and upload the merged file to a specified folder.
  • Every Saturday, connect to our OneDrive and backup to AWS cloud storage all the new files added in the 'Projects' folder during the week.
  • Upload signed Documents from DocuSign to Dropbox.

Communication services

  • Send the recording on Slack once recording is ready on Zoom.
  • Send an SMS message via Twilio when a high-priority incident is created in ServiceNow.

Microsoft 365

  • When a new row is added to the vendors table notify the team over Slack and confirm via Microsoft Outlook.
  • Add a new line to an Excel Spreadsheet for every unread email in an Microsoft Outlook folder, then mark the email as read.
  • Create a flow that reads through the emails in a particular folder using Microsoft 365. Then Download the attachments, only consider those that are PDF. Then read the text from the PDF.
  • Extract data from a new invoice file in once drive and store in Excel.
  • Notify me on Teams when a critical bug is created in Jira.
  • I need to extract the latest Bitcoin data from Yahoo Finance and write it to an Excel.

Google Workspace

  • Extract data from a new invoice file in Google Drive and store it in Google Sheets.
  • Download new Zoom Recordings as video files and upload them to Google Drive.
  • Trigger an automation from Gmail and store the attachment in the Google Drive.
  • Create a new entry in Google Sheets for a new customer support ticket from Zendesk.
  • Extract the latest 100 emails from Gmail from the current month and create a Google Sheets Report with the sender and subject.
  • For new invoices received to Gmail create an expense report using Expensify.
  • Summarize new Gmail email using OpenAI and share the summary via Slack.

Salesforce

  • For a new Salesforce lead, generate a personalized email using OpenAI and send the email via Outlook.
  • When a Salesforce opportunity is won, post a kudos message to Slack.
  • Send me a message to Teams when a new lead is created in Salesforce.
  • Whenever a lead's status changes in Salesforce, send a notification on Slack to the sales team with the lead's details.

OpenAI

  • Scrape product, price and rating from provided URL, send the result to OpenAI to find the best option considering rating and price.

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