Better Zapier compatibility
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Christopher Kay
Recently I was trying to find a way to push Dovetail highlights to a shared Miro board using Zapier, and found I could only push insights, not highlight text. It seems like direct Miro integration has been requested before, but Zapier could accomplish that and more.
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Pat Barlow
Thank you for posting, Christopher Kay! I have a few more questions for you:
- Can you provide more details on how you envision the workflow between Dovetail, Zapier, and Miro?
- What specific data from the Dovetail highlights would you like to push to Miro?
- Are there any other functionalities or features you would like to see in the Zapier integration?
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Christopher Kay
Pat Barlow Sure. What I’d like to do is get Miro objects containing the text of the highlight, some indication of which participant said it, and a link to the highlight video. Currently this can be done in Zapier from the Dovetail side with Insights, using the trigger event ‘New Insight’ and passing the variables ‘Markdown’ and ‘URL’ to Miro’s side. But it can’t be done with highlights.
The trigger event would be something like ‘When [insert tag] is added to highlight in X project’ (so that I could have a ‘transfer to Miro’ tag instead of transferring everything’). The variables would be highlight text, participant, and URL linking to clip.
It'd be great to have support for the People database as well to sync with similar data stored in other places.