Google Sheets
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You can add a Google Sheet for your TaskBot to pull data from, update it or append new data to it.
Yes. Simply add new columns directly in your Google Sheet, and then click on Refetch columns from Google Sheet on your TaskBot page, as shown here: .
If you change column names or delete some of the columns in your Google Sheet, those table references that refer to them in your building blocks will no longer be valid. If you click on Refetch columns from Google Sheet, the columns that are no longer present in your Google Sheet will be removed automatically from all the building block references. If you rename or delete columns that are not referenced in any of your building blocks, then nothing happens and no action is needed.
Column matching is not case-sensitive. This means that if you change the case of your column names in your Google Sheet (for example, from "column one" to "Column One"), this will have no impact on your references.
Your TaskBot works with the data in your Google Sheets in batches of 50 rows.
For example, assume you have a Google Sheet with 1,000 rows and you built a TaskBot that updates each row in a loop. The TaskBot will update your Google Sheet after every 100 rows. This means during its run, your TaskBot will update your Google Sheet 10 times in total.
This drastically reduces any risk of hitting your Sheets usage limits. (Official Google Sheets documentation page on usage limits: .)
In case the usage limit happens to be exceeded during a TaskBot run, your TaskBot will wait for a minute and retry. In case the new attempt was not successful it will repeat this wait-and-retry process a few more times. If, after multiple attempts, Google Sheets still returns the error that the rate limit was exceeded, TaskBot will terminate its run and you will see an error message in your Run Reports (see Using Run Reports).
Your TaskBot will check if the Google Sheet link is valid at the start of its run. If it's not valid or your authentication session has expired, it will not proceed with the run and you will see an error message in your Run Reports.
See Convert Native Table to a Google Sheet.
Let's go over an example.
You have TaskBot A with table id 123 pointing to Google Sheet A.
Then you duplicate your TaskBot A. Now TaskBot B is created with a different table id 456 still pointing to Google Sheet A.
The Google Sheet is not re-created in your Google Drive. Both tables point to the same Sheet.
Now you might want to do either of the two:
Keep the new TaskBot B’s table as it is. It will update/use data in the same sheet as TaskBot A.
Link TaskBot B to a different sheet. You can simply click on "Edit Google Sheet link" and add a new Google Sheet in your TaskBot B without having to re-map any of the table references in your building blocks. That's because the reference used is only the table id, the column names do not need to be re-mapped (unless of course the column names in your other Sheet are different and do not match to the column name references in the building blocks).
If you need to re-authenticate to your Google Sheets, you need to first remove its connection from your Google Account.
Go to your Google account settings, click on Data & Privacy, scroll down to Data from apps and services you use, select Third-party apps and services and find ZeroWork in that list. Once you click on ZeroWork, scroll down to the option called Delete all connections you have with ZeroWork. Now you can re-authenticate your connection to Google Sheets.