Use a Google Sheet as the control panel for your Drive. A new row can create a client folder, a status change can move or export a file, and each new file in a folder can add its own row. FlowMattic runs these workflows from your WordPress site and writes the folder and file links back into the sheet.
10 triggers 47 actions 6 example workflows 10 ready-made templates Unlimited runs
When this happens in Google Sheets6 triggers
Do this in Google Drive28 actions
1. TriggerNew Spreadsheet Row2. ActionCreate a FolderWhen Google Sheets fires New Spreadsheet Row, FlowMattic runs Create a Folder in Google Drive with the data from that event.
You build this in the FlowMattic workflow builder on your own site. See the setup steps
Each one uses only triggers and actions the two integrations ship today, plus FlowMattic's own tools. Where the library has a ready-made template, import it instead of building from scratch.
Agencies and accountants add one row per client. The workflow creates the client's folder, shares it with the email in the row and writes the folder link back next to the name.
New Spreadsheet RowCreate a FolderShare FolderUpdate Row
Ready-made templateCourse runners add a row when someone completes. Drive gets a certificate file with their name and date, shared with them, so nobody types certificates by hand.
New Spreadsheet RowCreate File From TextShare File
View the template Ready-made templateEvery week an AI agent reads the rows of your numbers sheet and writes a short report of what moved. The report lands in a Drive folder for anyone who wants the history.
ScheduleGet Row DataAI AgentCreate File From Text
View the template Reviewers change a status column instead of dragging files around. The workflow finds the file named in the row and moves it to the folder for approved work.
Update Specific Column ValueFind FileMove File
Mark a row Final and the document whose ID sits in that row is exported to PDF, given an anyone-with-the-link share, and the link is written into the row for the client.
Update Specific Column ValueExport File to PDFShare File with AnyoneUpdate Cell Data
When a file lands in the shared folder, its name, link and date go into a new row, so the folder has a list people can sort and filter.
New File in FolderAdd New Row
At the end, each new row in your client sheet has its own Drive folder, shared with the client, with the link in the row.
Add a Google Sheets connection and a Google Drive connection under Connects, using an account that owns the sheet and the parent folder.
Give the sheet columns for client name, client email and folder link, and add one sample row.
Create a workflow with the Google Sheets New Spreadsheet Row trigger, pick the spreadsheet and sheet, and capture the sample row.
Add Google Drive Create a Folder named after the client, then Share Folder with the folder ID from that step and the email from the row.
Add Google Sheets Update Row, map the folder link into the folder column, test the run and switch it on.
1. Trigger in Google Sheets
New Spreadsheet Row
2. Action in Google Drive
Create a Folder
3. Action in Google Drive
Share Folder
4. Action in Google Sheets
Update Row
Fields mapped from the earlier steps (a typical setup)
| From Google Sheets | To Google Sheets |
|---|---|
| Client name | Folder name |
| Client email | Share with email |
| Folder ID | Folder to share |
| Folder link | Folder link column |
A trigger starts a workflow. An action is something FlowMattic does in the app as a step.
Google Sheets and Google Drive connect through FlowMattic on your own site, with no separate automation account in the middle and no charge per run.
Your team already edits the sheet. Folders, files and share links follow from what the rows say, and the links come back into the same rows.
The workflow runs on your server with unlimited runs, so a sheet with thousands of client rows costs the same as one with ten.
The same workflow can email the client their folder link, post in Slack or create a WordPress user once the folder exists.
It lets a row in a sheet create folders and files in Drive, share them, move them or export them to PDF, and it can list Drive files back into a sheet. Each step is picked on the workflow builder, so no code is needed.
Yes. New File, New File in Folder and Updated File are Google Drive triggers. A common use here is New File in Folder with Add New Row, which writes each new file's name and link into the sheet.
Yes. Use Create a Sub Folder with the ID of your main clients folder as the parent, so every new folder lands in the same place.
Use Share File with their email, or Share File with Anyone to get a link that works without a Google login. Write the link into the sheet so you can send it on.
Yes. Copy File makes a copy of your template, Update File/Folder Name renames it after the row, and Move File puts it in the right folder.
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Reviewed 23 Oct 2026. The example workflows are written with AI from the real triggers and actions of both integrations and checked against them. Google Sheets integration 2.2.4, Google Drive integration 3.0.0.
