By using Zapier with your StoryChief account, you can create custom workflows that trigger when you complete actions.

Our Zapier integration allows you to send many different types of data in order to create your article. In this article, we are learning how to convert your article's due date into a Unix timestamp (a time format that our API understands).

Step 1. After adding your main trigger in Zapier, You can add a Zapier action before creating the main StoryChief action

Step 2. Select "format".

Step 3. Select "Date/Time".

Step 4. Select "Format".

Step 5.

1. Set the To Format to unix timestamp (as in the screenshot)

2. Select the To Timezone (the desired Timezone)

3. Select the From Format (how the date is formatted in your data)

4. Select the From Timezone (the current timezone in your data)

Step 6. Click "Continue" to test the action.

Step 7. Now select the transformed value in your Due date field

🎉 you are all set! your date will be converted to a Unix timestamp and will be set in your article.