Hey folks, hope you’re doing well! Been stepping up my Zapier automation game lately and been working on a project that essentially triggers when a spreadsheet is updated with sports event scores and automatically updates a Sportspress event hosted on a Wordpress website.
I’m so close I can almost taste it!
Everything works well until I need to make a dynamic reference to the two teams participating in the games. Essentially I am using a POST request through Zapier App Extensions and I can get everything to update as desired when I have hardcoded team ID numbers. But when I try to reference these variables {{home_id}} and {{away_id}} it seems to read these characters literally instead of recognizing that it should be a variable.
If I use the actual IDs of these teams, everything works as intended. The challenge presents itself when I try to use these variables as it’s reading the variables literally.
I’m attaching some screenshots so you can take a peek and if more information is required I will edit this post accordingly. Any insight into this would be appreciated! I’ve spent a couple days working on this specific project so far and prepared to spend many more, but I seem to be hitting a roadblock with this variable referencing issue and can’t find many tutorials that are specific enough to this issue that would be helpful. If anyone knows of some valuable resources where I can learn more about this I would really appreciate that too!
Here’s the full pasted data as well for the Zapier output if it’s helpful.
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