# Example prompts

> Example prompts for Autopilot actions, including expressions and workflow generation.

This page collects example prompts for Autopilot actions. For prompting best practices, refer to the [Prompting guide](prompting-guide-actions.md).

## For expressions

Here are some examples of how you can write effective prompts for expressions in Studio.

### Date and time

* Find the next Sunday date.
* Download emails received today with the date format "dd/mm/yyyy".
* Convert from format "MM/dd/yyyy hh : mm : ss" to format "yyyy-MM-dd hh : mm : ss".
* Put a one second delay.

### Text and number

* Get last 4 digits.
* Get filename from full path.
* Verify if the result is a palindrome.
* Return the first palindrome number greater than 152.

### Data operations

* Fix the expression by declaring and initializing the variable before calling the first method on it.
* Store the list of strings inside an array.

### Files operations

* Get all `.pdf` files from the folder.

### Excel operations

* Read ranges B3 to B9 from the Excel sheet.

## For workflows

Here are some examples of how you can write effective prompts for workflows in Studio.

### Storage services

* When a new PDF is created in OneDrive, split its pages into separate files.
* Combine all PDF files in a OneDrive folder into a single PDF file and upload the merged file to a specified folder.
* Every Saturday, connect to our OneDrive and backup to AWS cloud storage all the new files added in the 'Projects' folder during the week.
* Upload signed Documents from DocuSign to Dropbox.

### Communication services

* Send the recording on Slack once recording is ready on Zoom.
* Send an SMS message via Twilio when a high-priority incident is created in ServiceNow.

### Microsoft 365

* When a new row is added to the vendors table notify the team over Slack and confirm via Microsoft Outlook.
* Add a new line to an Excel Spreadsheet for every unread email in an Microsoft Outlook folder, then mark the email as read.
* Create a flow that reads through the emails in a particular folder using Microsoft 365. Then Download the attachments, only consider those that are PDF. Then read the text from the PDF.
* Extract data from a new invoice file in once drive and store in Excel.
* Notify me on Teams when a critical bug is created in Jira.
* I need to extract the latest Bitcoin data from Yahoo Finance and write it to an Excel.

### Google Workspace

* Extract data from a new invoice file in Google Drive and store it in Google Sheets.
* Download new Zoom Recordings as video files and upload them to Google Drive.
* Trigger an automation from Gmail and store the attachment in the Google Drive.
* Create a new entry in Google Sheets for a new customer support ticket from Zendesk.
* Extract the latest 100 emails from Gmail from the current month and create a Google Sheets Report with the sender and subject.
* For new invoices received to Gmail create an expense report using Expensify.
* Summarize new Gmail email using OpenAI and share the summary via Slack.

### Salesforce

* For a new Salesforce lead, generate a personalized email using OpenAI and send the email via Outlook.
* When a Salesforce opportunity is won, post a kudos message to Slack.
* Send me a message to Teams when a new lead is created in Salesforce.
* Whenever a lead's status changes in Salesforce, send a notification on Slack to the sales team with the lead's details.

### OpenAI

* Scrape product, price and rating from provided URL, send the result to OpenAI to find the best option considering rating and price.