Creating an automation via Make

This article walks through creating a sample automation that will create jobs in your Dropboard account with Make, an alternative tool to Zapier.

1. Create a new scenario and entry point

Create a new scenario in your account and add whatever pre-steps are going to come before your integration with Dropboard.

2. Add an HTTP step

3. Create a Dropboard API personal token

Go to Settings > API Tokens in your Dropboard account. Click "Create" to generate a new API token and give it a name like "Make integration."

4. Back in Make, enter your Dropboard credentials

Open the credentials form and enter the following:

Name: "Dropboard API Token"
Key: [paste your key from step 3]
API Key placement: "In the header"
API Key parameter name: "X-API-TOKEN"

5. Enter operation details

In our example we are creating jobs automatically. If you'd like to perform another operation, check out our developer documentation.

URL: "https://api.dropboardhq.com/2024-02/jobs "
Method: "POST"
Body type: "Raw"
Content type: "JSON"
Parse response: "Yes"

6. Format the request to create a new job

In the request content field, you need to enter JSON-formatted data. Use a JSON-editor like this one as you're making edits to be sure everything stays formatted appropriately.

Here is the raw information we're going to put in the "Request content" field:

{
  "title": "This is the title",
  "description": "This is the description",
  "status": "open",
  "responsibilities": "List responsibilities required, one per line (this is optional)",
  "qualifications": "List qualifications required, one per line (this is optional)",
  "hiringManagerEmails": [
    "youremail@address.com"
  ],
  "compensation": "Optionally specify a compensation for this job",
  "locations": [
    "Optional city or address or free text where this job is"
  ]
}

You can use the Make editor to inject variables from other steps as needed. Don't forget to keep the JSON-formatting (quotes around content, etc). Here's an example of what this may look like:

7. You're done!

Click "Ok" to close the window and then give it a test with "Run once." Hop into your Dropboard account and click on "Jobs" and you should see the new job immediately.