# Connect ShareFile and Timing

When **New Client** fires in [ShareFile](https://apiant.ai/connections/sharefile), your agent runs **Create Project** in [Timing](https://apiant.ai/connections/timing), or **New Project** in Timing to **Add Note** in ShareFile. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

ShareFile **1** trigger ShareFile **18** actions Timing **4** triggers Timing **19** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want ShareFile and Timing to do together?

Give your AI client this address.

`https://mcp.apiant.ai`

Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

### Set it up in your client

### Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

`claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai`

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

[Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code)

### Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

Example flows

## What ShareFile and Timing can do together

### From ShareFile to Timing

- When **New Client** in ShareFile then **Create Project** in Timing
- When **New Client** in ShareFile then **Update Project** in Timing

### From Timing to ShareFile

- When **New Project** in Timing then **Add Note** in ShareFile
- When **New Team** in Timing then **Add user** in ShareFile

Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.

Everything your agent can do with ShareFile and Timing

## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 37 actions

- Trigger

**New Client**

Triggers when a new client user is added to the ShareFile account.

- Action

**Add group**

Creates a new distribution group in ShareFile, optionally shared and with initial member contacts.

- Action

**Add Note**

Creates a note inside a ShareFile folder with a title and optional text.

- Action

**Add share**

Creates a new Send share (sharing files) or Request share (asking recipients to upload into a folder) in ShareFile.

- Action

**Add URL**

Adds a web link (URL) item to a ShareFile folder.

- Action

**Add user**

Creates a new employee user in your ShareFile account and returns the new user.

- Action

**Copy item**

Copies a file or folder into another ShareFile folder.

- Action

**Create Client User**

Creates a new client user in your ShareFile account.

- Action

**Create Folder**

Creates a new folder inside a ShareFile parent folder and returns the new folder.

- Action

**Delete item**

Deletes a file or folder from ShareFile.

- Action

**Find items by name**

Searches ShareFile for files and folders whose name matches the text you enter, and returns the matching items.

- Action

**Get file download link**

Returns a temporary download link for a ShareFile file. For a folder, the link downloads a ZIP archive of its contents.

- Action

**Get item**

Returns a single ShareFile item (file, folder, note or link) by its id.

- Action

**Get user**

Returns a ShareFile user by ID or email address, or the connected user when neither is given.

- Action

**List folder children**

Returns the files, folders, notes and links directly inside a ShareFile folder.

- Action

**List groups**

Returns the distribution groups you have permission to view in your ShareFile account.

- Action

**List shares**

Returns the outstanding Send and Request shares created by the connected ShareFile user.

- Action

**List users**

Returns the employee users in your ShareFile account.

- Action

**Update item**

Updates a ShareFile file, folder, note or link: rename it, change its description or expiration date, or move it to another folder or zone.

- Trigger

**New Project**

Triggered when a new project is created in Timing.

- Trigger

**New Team**

Triggered when you are added to a new team in Timing.

- Trigger

**New Time Entry**

Triggered when a new time entry is logged in Timing.

- Trigger

**New Timer Started and Running**

Triggered when a new timer is started and is still running in Timing.

- Action

**Batch Update Time Entries**

Updates several Timing time entries at once — moves them to a project, retitles them, sets notes, billing status or custom fields. Anything left blank is left untouched on the entries.

- Action

**Create Project**

Creates a new project in Timing, optionally under a parent project, and returns the created project.

- Action

**Create Time Entry**

Logs a finished block of work in Timing between a start and end time, optionally against a project, and returns the created time entry.

- Action

**Delete Project**

Deletes a project in Timing, along with all of its child projects.

- Action

**Delete Time Entry**

Deletes a time entry in Timing.

- Action

**Find Project**

Searches your Timing projects by title and returns the first match, plus the full list of matches.

- Action

**Find Team**

Finds a team you belong to in Timing by its name and returns the first match, plus every team whose name matched.

- Action

**Get Activity Hierarchy**

Returns a readable breakdown of what you worked on in Timing over a date range, as tab-indented text grouped by project and app with durations.

- Action

**List Projects**

Returns the projects you can see in Timing, optionally filtered by title, team, or hiding archived ones.

- Action

**List Teams**

Returns all the Timing teams you are a member of.

- Action

**List Time Entries**

Returns your Timing time entries, optionally narrowed by date range, project, team member, search text or billing status.

- Action

**Show Latest Time Entry**

Returns your most recent time entry in Timing.

- Action

**Show Project**

Returns a single Timing project with its colour, notes, billing default, parent and child projects.

- Action

**Show Running Timer**

Returns the timer that is currently running in Timing. Errors with a not-found if no timer is running.

- Action

**Show Time Entry**

Returns a single Timing time entry with its times, duration, project, notes and billing status.

- Action

**Start Timer**

Starts a running timer in Timing, stopping any timer that is already running, and returns the new entry.

- Action

**Stop Timer**

Stops the timer that is currently running in Timing and returns the finished time entry.

- Action

**Update Project**

Updates a Timing project's name, colour, notes, archive state or billing default. Anything left blank keeps its current value.

- Action

**Update Time Entry**

Updates a Timing time entry — its times, project, title, notes or billing status. Anything left blank keeps its current value.

## Each app on its own

- [ **ShareFile** Securely send, store, and share files – plus discover document workflows designed to improve your client...](https://apiant.ai/connections/sharefile)
- [ **Timing** Timing is an automatic time tracking app for macOS.](https://apiant.ai/connections/timing)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from ShareFile

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- [ **ShareFile to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/sharefile-to-stripe)
- [ **ShareFile to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/sharefile-to-shopify)
- [ **ShareFile to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/sharefile-to-trello)
- [ **ShareFile to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/sharefile-to-zoom)
- [ **ShareFile to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/sharefile-to-twilio)

## More into Timing

- [ **Favro to Timing** Plan a wedding, build an award winning video game or even send a rocket into space.](https://apiant.ai/connect/favro-to-timing)
- [ **Pipefy to Timing** The easy button for processes and workflows Easily organize and run all your processes in one place, leaving...](https://apiant.ai/connect/pipefy-to-timing)
- [ **HubSpot to Timing** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-timing)
- [ **Salesforce to Timing** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-timing)
- [ **Slack to Timing** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-timing)
- [ **Gmail to Timing** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-timing)

Questions

## ShareFile and Timing, answered

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### What can start an automation from ShareFile?

Any of ShareFile's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Client. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in Timing when something happens in ShareFile?

Any of Timing's 19 actions, including Create Project, Create Time Entry, Update Project and Update Time Entry. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Can it also run from Timing to ShareFile?

Yes. When something happens in Timing, your agent can act in ShareFile too. This page covers both directions: Timing's triggers and ShareFile's actions are listed here as well.

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### Do I have to build a connector for ShareFile or Timing?

No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.

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### What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
