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How to Connect Snovio as Data Search

How to Connect Snovio as Data Search

Integration with Snovio is implemented as a separate Search block that can be placed between the Source and Destination of data. This will allow you to get data fields in the Data Source, make a request from Snovio to search for a contact or verify an email using the given values, and pass data on contacts or verify an email to the Data Destination fields. Thus, through the search, you can automatically receive data from Snovio and transfer it to the services and systems that you use.

The function allows you to search Contacts or Verify email in Snovio and update data

Navigation:

Connecting Google Sheets as a Data Source:

1. What data can be get from Google Sheets?
2. How to connect your Google Sheets account to ApiX-Drive?
3. Selecting the table and sheet from which rows will be exported.
4. An example of data that will be transferred from Google Sheets.

Connecting Snovio as Data Search:

1. What data can be get from Snovio?
2. How to connect your Snovio account to ApiX-Drive?
3. How to set up data search in Snovio in the selected action?
4. An example of the data that will be transferred from Snovio.

Setting up row updates in Google Sheets:
1. What will the Google Sheets integration do?
2. How to connect your Google Sheets account to ApiX-Drive?
3. How to set up data transfer to Google Sheets in the selected action?
4. An example of the data that will be sent to your Google Sheets.
5. Auto-update and update interval.

Connecting Snovio as Data Search:

Setting Data SOURCE: Google Sheets

Let's look at how the Search function works using the example of updating a Row in Google Sheets.

First, you need to create a new connection.

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Create a connection

Select a system as the Data Source. In this case, you must specify Google Sheets.

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | System selection

Next, you need to specify the action "Get ROWS (all)".

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Action selection

The next step is to select the Google Sheets account from which the data will be uploaded.

If there are no accounts connected to the system, click "Connect account".  

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Connecting account

Select which account you want to connect to ApiX-Drive and grant all permissions to work with this account.

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Select a Google account to connect
Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Select a Google account to connect
Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Select a Google account to connect
Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Select a Google account to connect

When the connected account is displayed in the "active accounts" list, select it.

Attention! If your account is in the "inactive accounts" list, check your access to this account!

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Account selection

Select the Google Sheets table and sheet where the data you need is located.

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Table and Sheet Selection

At this step, you can add a data filter to load not all rows, but only those for which data needs to be updated, for example:

1. Select a column from the table in which you have the data you are looking for.

2. Select the "Does not contain" action.

3. Write a value to filter by, for example "United States".

With such a filter, you will not be downloading rows that already contain the country United States. Why waste extra steps to overwrite the country if it's already listed?

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Data Filter

Now you can see the test data for one of the rows in your Google Sheets.

If you want to update the test data - click "Load test data from Google Sheets".

If you want to change the settings - click "Edit" and you will go back one step.  

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Test data

Now we connect an additional Data Search block. To do this, click on the "+" and select "Add data SEARCH" from the list.

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Add data Search

As the system in which the search will be performed, select "Snovio".

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | System selection

Next, select an action, for example "Find CONTACT".

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Action selection

The next step is choosing a Snovio account.

If there are no accounts connected to the ApiX-Drive system, click "Connect account".  

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Connecting account

Enter your API User ID and API Secret to connect to your Snovio account.

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Entering data for access and connection

The API User ID and API Secret is located in "Integration" under "API" in your Snovio account. Copy the "API User ID" and "API Secret" and paste them into the appropriate fields in the ApiX-Drive account.

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | API User ID and API Secret Location in Snovio

When the connected account is displayed in the "active accounts" list, select it.

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Selecting a Search account

Specify E-mail from the section Source for data search.

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Assigning fields

Now you see test data for one of the Contacts. You can transfer this data to your receive table.

If the test data did not appear automatically, click "Search in Snovio".

If something does not suit you - click "Edit", go back one step and change the settings for the search fields.  

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Test data

This completes the Data Search setup!

Now we can start setting up Google Sheets as a Data Destination system.

To do this, click "Add Data DESTINATION".  

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Setup Data Destination system

Setup Data Destination system: Google Sheets

Select the system as Data Destination. In this case, you must specify Google Sheets.

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | System selection

Next, you need to specify the action "Update ROW".

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Action selection

The next step is to select the Google Sheets account to which the Snovio country will be transferred. If this is the same account, then select it.


If you need to connect another accounts to the system, click "Connect account" and repeat the same steps as described when connecting Google Sheets as a Data Source.

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Account selection

Now you need to select the File (Table) and Sheet in which the Snovio Contact data will be updated.

In the "Search column" field, you need to select the column by which the data will be searched. That is, where to look for data in the table.

Next, in the "Search" field, you need to select a variable from the drop-down list or enter the data manually, by which value the system will search for data to update the row you need. In our case, we select the "E" column, which contains the contact's email data. The system will update the data in the required row only if it matches the contact's email.

Also, you need to specify the Search Type, in case several lines with the same email are found:

"First found row" - searching and updating data will occur in the first found row that satisfies the search conditions.
"Last found row" - searching and updating data will occur in the last found row that satisfies the search conditions.
"All found rows" - search and update of data will be performed on all found rows that satisfy the search conditions.

Also specify the option how to Overwrite data:

- Overwrite old data - new data will be written over the old ones.
- Append to old data - new data from the Data Source will be appended to the old data.

Now you need to assign the contact country variable, which we take from the Data Search block, to the empty column. In the future, this column will be updated with data on the country of your contact.

After setting, click "Continue".

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Assigning fields
Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Assigning fields
Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Assigning fields

Thus, the Data Search block takes the field in the Data Source in which your contact email is registered, queries Snovio for contact data, in this case, the country of the contact, and passes this country in the Data Destination field, for example, in the "F" column.

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Test data
Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Test data

This completes the Data Destination system setup!

Now you can start choosing the update interval and enabling auto-update.

To do this, click "Enable update".        

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Enable auto-update

On the main screen, click on the gear icon to select the required update interval or set up scheduled launch. To start the connection by time, select scheduled start and specify the desired time for the connection update to be triggered, or add several options at once when you need the connection to be triggered.

Attention! In order for the scheduled run to work at the specified time, the interval between the current time and the specified time must be more than 5 minutes. For example, you select the time 12:10 and the current time is 12:08 - in this case, the automatic update of the connection will occur at 12:10 the next day. If you select the time 12:20 and the current time is 12:13 - the auto-update of the connection will work today and then every day at 12:20.

To make the current connection transmit data only after another connection, check the box "Update connection only after start other connection" and specify the connection after which the current connection will be started.       

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Update interval
Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Update priority

To enable auto-update, switch the slider to the position as shown in the picture.

To force the connection, click on the arrow icon.  

Setting up Snovio Contact Search in Google Sheets | Enable auto-update

This completes the Snovio Contact Data Search setup! See how easy it is!?

Now don't worry, ApiX-Drive will do everything on its own!