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I have a task at hand: I regularly update a Google Sheets document. Sometimes, I delete entire rows, and as a result, Zapier sends me empty strings to notify me of the deleted rows. My question is, how can I determine which specific row was deleted? Is there any marker or unique identification that can help me with this?

Hi @Hinson 

Good question.

Zap triggers from GSheets related to row changes will include the ID/Row.

The problem is if user deleted row and shifted all rows up or down? Then row id becomes useless :(

@Hinson 

It’s documented that deleting data from a GSheets being used in Zaps can cause issues.

You may want to look into using Airtable instead of GSheets.

Airtable Records have a unique Record ID that can be used.

 

 

Thank you very much Troy, I will try to go with Airtable

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