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This is done (not sent for review yet)

Now… this is what I did… It’s not exactly the same as Zapier, but I think it’s gonna work for ya.

  1. You duplicate the file using Google Drive.

  2. That is gonna return a new file ID.

  3. Then you use that new file ID to modify all the variables using the “Edit file based on template” action (previously known as Create document based on template)

I’ll be making a tutorial on how to use this, but is pretty simple. In the original document, you set variables as before [[VariableName]]. For the images tho, is a little more “complex”. You need to use the Read Document action to get the Object Id of the image in the document. This does not change when you duplicate the file, so you can use the same Id as the original template. Then, you simply set the image URL for that Id. This way, you don’t have to worry about size, or position. You simply put a placeholder image, then you get the ID and that’s it, you replace it within AP.

Example

Values (Variables)
Key - Value
BusinessName - AP
ClientName - Pablo F
etc

Images
Id - Url
kix.35dfb38fm - https://blahblah/image.png
etc

I think this is better than the HTML solution on the zapier blog you sent me.

All of this is done already, but I’ll test it a couple more times before releasing it. LMK what you think @S_M

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