Ifttt Tutorial

1. HOW TO USE

2. IFTT (If This Then That)
•is an online service that automates Web-
based tasks so that when user-specified
events occur, follow-up tasks are
triggered and handled.

3. •It allows users to create chains of simple
conditional statements, called “Applets”.

4. IFTTT has the following concepts:
• Services
• Triggers
• Actions
• Applets
• Ingredients

5. Services
(formerly known as channels) are the "basic building blocks of
IFTTT", they mainly describe a series of data from a certain web
service such as YouTube or eBay. It can also describe some actions
controlled with certain APIs like SMS. Sometimes, it can represent
information in terms of weather or stocks. There are particular
triggers and actions in each channel.

7. Triggers
•are the "this" part of an applet. They are the
items that "trigger" the action. For example,
from an RSS feed, you can receive a
notification based on a keyword or phrase.

8. Actions
•are the "that" part of an applet. They
are the output that results from the
input of the trigger.

9. Applets
• (formerly known as recipes) are
the predicates made from Triggers and Actions.
For example, if you like any picture in Instagram
(trigger), the photo will be sent to
your Dropbox account (action).

10. Ingredients
•are basic data made available from a trigger.
For example, the data that are available from
the email trigger include subject, body,
attachment, received date, and the sender’s
address.

12. Why use IFTTT?
• If you have multiple channels for your company
and you are posting the same content for each,
IFTTT is the free way in which you can link up a
couple of your accounts together to ensure that
they are sent at the same time.

13. •This would save a lot of time, as you wouldn’t
have to post these one at a time. You can even
save money considering you wouldn’t need to
hire someone to manage it for you and focus
on other tasks the business may have.

16. Key in your preferred web browser.

17. For this tutorial, I’ll use Google Chrome.

18. Type ifttt.com.

19. Then press Enter.

20. It will show the IFTTT site.

21. On the upper right part of the page, click on
Sign-up.

22. Key in the information needed.

23. Key in your email.

24. Then your password.

25. Click Sign up.

26. Welcome to your IFTTT account.

27. Let’s start creating your own IFTTT applets.

28. On the upper right side of the page, click on
your username.

29. It will show this and select – New Applet.

30. Start making your own applet.

31. Click This.

32. Choose between the wide array of IFTTT
services. You can search here, or…

33. Scroll all the way down to check all possible
services.

34. For this sample, I’ll use Facebook, click on your
preferred service.

35. Click Connect.

36. It will verify if the Facebook account pulled up
is correct, then click continue.

37. Click OK if you agree.

38. Click OK after confirming information.

39. Choose your trigger.

40. For this sample, I’ll choose this trigger.

41. Then, let’s work on the action – THAT.

42. Click – That.

43. Select the service.

44. For this sample, I’ll choose Dropbox.

45. Click Connect.

46. Click Allow.

47. Now, choose the action.

48. I’ll choose this action for this sample.

49. Complete the information needed.

51. Select your 1st ingredient.

52. Then select the File Name.

53. Select the path.

54. Click create Action.

55. Review if what you want for your applet is
what you were able to create.

56. Click Finish.

57. ON means that your applet is active.

58. As a sample, I posted a picture of my God
daughter at Facebook.

59. And I saw the pictures posted at my dropbox.

60. Double click and you’ll see the images.

61. You can also delete your applets if you don’t
feel like needing it anymore.

62. From My Applets, click the On button.

63. Then click Settings.

64. You’ll see this screen.

65. Click delete below.

66. It’s very easy to use the IFTTT page.

67. After creating you own applets, you can work
on discovering the page more.

68. Select Discover to check existing applets
available and see if it will be suitable for you.

69. Click on the small arrow on the sides and select
the type of basis on what your applet want to
be.

71. Scroll down the available applets below.

72. Just select your preferred applets and activate.

73. Following the confirmations needed
depending on the services selected.
You can work on exploring the site
more and use it to it’s full potential.

74. References used:
• IFTTT
• http://internetofthingsagenda.techtarget.com/definition/IFTTT-If-This-
Then-That
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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFTTT
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• http://www.creativenerds.org/use-ifttt-can-help-personally-professionally/