Ning Zapier integrationAutomate Ning with Zapier.
The Ning Zapier integration gives you 3 triggers, 1 action and 0 searches. New blog posts, new comments and new members can start a Zap, and another app can create a post on your Ning site. Here is how each works, what it costs and where it trips.
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What the Ning Zapier integration does for your community
Ning is a platform for building community websites with social features built in: members, blogs, comments. Connected to Zapier, your Ning site can tell your other tools when a post, a comment or a member arrives, and other apps can publish posts on it for you.
Every new post announced. New Blog Post picks up each post on the blog you choose, so your chat tool, your newsletter tool or a spreadsheet hears about it without anyone copying links.
Comments that get answered. New Blog Post Comment brings each new comment on a blog into Zapier. With a filter behind it, the ones that need a reply can land where your moderators already work.
Posts that come from elsewhere. Create Blog Post writes a post on a Ning blog from content an earlier step carried, and a Save as a draft? option you can set in the step.
A fourth result, if your community grows through sign-ups: New User starts a Zap for each new member.
What Zapier does not do here: every trigger is a polling one, so nothing is instant, and the editor offers no search and no way to edit or delete a post, a comment or a member. Those stay in Ning.
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Zapier words in one minute
Seven terms cover everything below, even if you have never opened Zapier.
- Zap
- The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run each time the trigger event happens.
- Trigger
- The event in an app that starts the Zap. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it, here a new post, comment or member.
- Action
- What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you, like publishing a post.
- Task
- The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. Your plan's allowance is a count of those.
- Polling trigger
- A trigger Zapier checks on a timer: it asks the app for new items at a fixed interval and keeps what it has not seen yet.
- Instant trigger
- A trigger the app reports itself, the moment the event happens. Ning has none: all three of its triggers are polling ones.
- Filter
- A step that lets the Zap carry on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
What a Ning Zap costs you
Ning is not a premium app, so it works on Zapier's free plan. The trigger never costs a task, and the checks Zapier makes for new posts, comments or members are free too.
- Trigger and checksFree, never counted
- Each successful action1 task
- Free plan100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps
- Filter or second actionMulti-step Zap, paid plan
Each action that succeeds is one task; an action that fails is not counted. The free plan gives you 100 tasks a month and Zaps of two steps, one trigger and one action. A filter or a second action makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan. The grid below shows how often Zapier checks the three Ning triggers on each plan. On paid plans you can change it, or run a check by hand from the editor.
Connect your Ning account to Zapier
- 01
Open the connection dialog
In Zapier, open the Apps page of your account and click + Add connection. A connection is your Ning account linked once, then reused by every step that uses Ning.
- 02
Pick Ning
Search for Ning in the dialog, select it and click Add connection. You need an account on Ning, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch.
- 03
Sign in and grant access
A tab opens on Ning. Sign in there and grant Zapier access to the account. The connection then serves the three triggers and the action, in any Zap you build.
Your first Ning Zap: send the comments that need a reply
GoalWhen a new comment lands on a Ning blog and meets your condition, a message goes to the chat channel your moderators watch.
- 01
Create the Zap and set the trigger
Start a new Zap, pick Ning and
New Blog Post Comment, choose your connection, then the Blog to watch. Zapier will check it at your plan's interval. - 02
Test the trigger
Run the test. Zapier brings back the three most recent comments of that blog, so you build on a real one. Read which details come back before going further.
- 03
Add a filter
Add a Filter step and set its three boxes: the field to look at, the rule, the value, picked from what the test returned. A filter needs a paid plan.
- 04
Add the message
Choose your chat tool and its send-message action. Put the comment details you saw at test into the text, then test the step once and read the result.
- 05
Publish
Click Publish to switch the Zap on. From then on, matching comments reach the channel. Comments posted before you published are not sent.
Ning triggers in Zapier
3 events start a Zap when something happens in Ning. Zapier checks for them at the interval your plan allows.
New Blog Post
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new blog post is created.”
Starts your Zap each time a new post appears on the Ning blog you picked. Zapier puts it forward as one of the app's main triggers.
New Blog Post Comment
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new comment is made on a blog post.”
Fires when someone leaves a new comment on a post of the chosen blog. It is the way to keep an eye on discussions without opening the site.
New User
Polling triggerIn Zapier“Triggers when a new user is created.”
Goes off when a new user is created on your Ning site. Unlike the two blog triggers, it asks for no blog: it covers the whole site.
The Ning action in Zapier
Ning gives you 1 action. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Create Blog Post
ActionIn Zapier“Creates a new blog post.”
Creates a new post on a Ning blog from content an earlier step brought in. Zapier highlights it as the app's main action.
When a Ning Zap breaks
Zapier attaches no help article to Ning, so the cases below are the general limits of any Zap, applied to this app.
Read them before you publish. If one of them shows up anyway, open our Zapier troubleshooting guide.
Older posts and members are not sent
A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Posts, comments and members that already existed are not picked up; moving them is a separate job.A Zap that keeps setting itself off
A Zap that writes into the place its own trigger watches can start itself again and again and burn tasks. Keep the blog a trigger watches apart from the one an action writes to.A big batch after an import
When a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold it back.The same post, only once
Zapier keeps track of what it has already seen on a polling trigger, so the same post, comment or member does not start the Zap twice.
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