Auto-Create Welcome Folders for New Telegram Members
New team member joins Telegram? Notis instantly creates a personalized Google Drive folder with all their onboarding materials, so they know exactly where to find what they need.
Trigger
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Action
Create a folder
Creates a new folder in google drive, optionally within a parent folder specified by its id or name; if a parent name is provided but not found, the action will fail.
Why this helps
New members join but don't know where to find onboarding docs, team guidelines, or resources. Manual setup is tedious, and people feel lost.
- New members feel welcomed and guided immediately
- Onboarding is consistent for every hire
- No manual folder creation or permission management
- Reduces support questions and ramp-up time
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Google Drive to Notis.
- 2Create an automation named 'Member Onboarding'.
- 3Tell Notis: 'When someone new joins my Telegram group, create a Google Drive folder with their name and populate it with links to our Handbook, Guidelines, and Team Intro. Share it with them.'
- 4Set the trigger to New Chat Member from Telegram.
- 5Test by adding a new member to your Telegram group and checking Drive.
Questions about this workflow
Can I customize the welcome materials for different roles?
Yes. In your Notis prompt, specify different onboarding sets (e.g., 'For engineers, include Tech Setup. For designers, include Brand Guide').
Who can access the onboarding folder?
Notis creates it and shares it with the new member. You control permissions in the automation prompt.
What if the same person joins twice or there's a duplicate?
Notis can detect repeat members and skip creating duplicate folders if you configure it.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Google Drive. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Google Drive actions
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Add file sharing preference
Modifies sharing permissions for an existing google drive file, granting a specified role to a user, group, domain, or 'anyone'.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Copy file
Duplicates an existing file in google drive, identified by its `file id`.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Create Comment
Tool to create a comment on a file. use when you need to add a new comment to a specific file in google drive.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
Create Shared Drive
Tool to create a new shared drive. use when you need to programmatically create a new shared drive for collaboration or storage.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Create File or Folder
Creates a new file or folder with metadata. use to create empty files or folders, or files with content by providing it in the request body (though this action primarily focuses on metadata creation).
Create a File from Text
Creates a new file in google drive from provided text content (up to 10mb), supporting various formats including automatic conversion to google workspace types.
Create a folder
Creates a new folder in google drive, optionally within a parent folder specified by its id or name; if a parent name is provided but not found, the action will fail.
Create Reply
Tool to create a reply to a comment in google drive. use when you need to respond to an existing comment on a file.
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