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Search Gmail contacts from Coda stakeholder pages

Find the contact context a stakeholder review needs without leaving the Coda workflow.

Trigger

Specific Coda Page Updated Trigger

Triggers when a specific page within a Coda document is updated.

Action

Search People

Searches contacts by matching the query against names, nicknames, emails, phone numbers, and organizations, optionally including 'other contacts'.

Why this helps

Confirming a stakeholder's contact details can lead to repeated searches across Coda, email history, and the address book.

  • Finds contact details from one review request
  • Reduces tool switching
  • Supports cleaner stakeholder records

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Coda and Gmail to Notis once.
  • 2Tell Notis how a stakeholder request on the monitored Coda page should search Google contacts.
  • 3Select Specific Coda Page Updated and choose a report channel.
  • 4Test with a known contact and confirm the expected result.

Questions about this workflow

What can the contact search match?

It can search names, nicknames, email addresses, phone numbers, and organizations.

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Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Coda to Gmail. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Coda triggers

Gmail actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Modify email labels

Adds and/or removes specified gmail labels for a message; ensure `message id` and all `label ids` are valid (use 'listlabels' for custom label ids).

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Create email draft

Creates a gmail email draft, supporting to/cc/bcc, subject, plain/html body (ensure `is html=true` for html), attachments, and threading.

ActionInstant

Coda Document Deleted Trigger

Triggers when a Coda document is deleted.

TriggerPolling

Create label

Creates a new label with a unique name in the specified user's gmail account.

ActionInstant

New Coda Document Trigger

Triggers when a new Coda document is created.

TriggerPolling

Delete Draft

Permanently deletes a specific gmail draft using its id; ensure the draft exists and the user has necessary permissions for the given `user id`.

ActionInstant

New Coda Page Trigger

Triggers when a new page is added to a Coda document.

TriggerPolling

Delete message

Permanently deletes a specific email message by its id from a gmail mailbox; for `user id`, use 'me' for the authenticated user or an email address to which the authenticated user has delegated access.

ActionInstant

Specific Coda Page Updated Trigger

Triggers when a specific page within a Coda document is updated.

TriggerPolling

Fetch emails

Fetches a list of email messages from a gmail account, supporting filtering, pagination, and optional full content retrieval.

ActionInstant

Fetch message by message ID

Fetches a specific email message by its id, provided the `message id` exists and is accessible to the authenticated `user id`.

ActionInstant

Fetch Message by Thread ID

Retrieves messages from a gmail thread using its `thread id`, where the thread must be accessible by the specified `user id`.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Coda and Gmail, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

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