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Developer Discussion

Technical discussions about building integrations on the Zapier platform.

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Mary BrittoBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Zap is not working properly for Update Customer in QuickBooks

This post has been edited by a moderator to remove personal information. Please remember that this is a public forum and to remove any sensitive information prior to posting.Hi,We have configured a zap to update customer in Quickbooks.In Step 1, we have set up a polling trigger to get data for updated customer from our application.In Step 2, we are finding customer in the QuickBooks using Email field. Also, we have checked the option to create customer in QuickBooks if it does not exist.In Step 3, we are calling the Update Customer Event of the QuickBooks. In this step for Id field we have passed Id received in Step 2. Other customer data received in Step 1 passed in corresponding QuickBooks fields.This zap is working fine if we update the customer once. If we try to update the same customer again, zap is not working. Also we don't get any error.For example: Consider we updated customer having name John Smith. First time zap runs successfully and we can see details in zap runs history.

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GetUWired
11 months ago
anna12345
anna12345New
asked in Developer Discussion

authorization with login page

Hello,I’m trying to create an app that has authorization that first logins and ask for authorization.Like: facebook, ignition. what kind of authorization they use, is there an example for it? Thanks,Anna  

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johnsmith
6 months ago
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WDES2021Beginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Invalid API - I get missing the "id" property when I already have an "id" property

Hello,I have an “id” property already in my response, under children: "kind": "Listing", "data": { "after": null, "dist": 1, "modhash": "", "geo_filter": "", "children": [ { "kind": "t3", "data": { "approved_at_utc": null, "saved": false, "mod_reason_title": null, "gilded": 0, "removal_reason": null, "link_flair_background_color": "", "id": "pc39rj", "is_robot_indexable": true, } } ], "before": null }}This is my API Endpoint Code…return z.request(options) .then((response) => { response.throwForStatus(); const results = response.json; // You can do any parsing you need for results here before returning them return [results]; });I don’t really understand why it won’t pick it up... I am guessing I would need additional code in the parsing section?Any help would be appreciated! WDes

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W
2 years ago
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helidonaBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Line Item Group not structured as nested/collected

Hello,I am currently working on an APP in Zapier, where I created a module to POST the data to the API.I have this example structure how should the body parameters send to the endpoint: { "orderNumber": "ABC-123-456", "shopToken": "SHOP1", "language": "de", "customerNumber": "654321", "shippingAddress": { "firstName": "Test", "lastName": "Test", "street": "Main Street", "streetNumber": "17a", "city": "Test", "postalCode": "12345", "country": "DE", "email": "user@example.com", "addition3": "string", "addition2": "string", "addition1": "string", "department": "Marketing", "company": "Test GMBH", "salutation": "Herr" }, "billingAddress": { "firstName": "Test", "lastName": "Test", "street": "Main Street", "streetNumber": "17a", "city": "Test", "postalCode": "12345", "country": "DE", "email": "user@example.com", "addition3": "string", "addition2": "string", "addition1": "string", "department": "Marketing",

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H
2 years ago
urlbox
urlboxNew
asked in Developer Discussion

performResume step not being called in create action?

Hi there, I have a `perform` and `performResume` step in my create action. I call `z.generateCallbackUrl()` and pass that to my API in the perform step. My API sends a POST request back to that callback url after about 10 seconds.  By looking at `zapier logs` I can see that only the perform step is being run. The `peformResume` step is never being called even though I can see that my API has successfully sent a POST request to the callbackUrl it was given. The Zapier Zap builder does not seem to wait for the performResume step either, it just returns data from the initial API call, which is not helpful because it does not contain the final result. I have tried a bunch of things and even copied the ‘callback’ example from github to see if I need to return something special from the perform step in order to tell zapier to wait for my webhook, but nothing seems to work.

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urlbox
2 years ago
shamimbdpro
shamimbdproBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

How to build trigger for updated user data?

I’m updating user data in my API. how i can develop a new trigger while update user?

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Z
1 year ago
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pushkar123Beginner
asked in Developer Discussion

how to make multiple level of nested child field schema

my schema is like:-        {          key: 'triggers', required: true,          children: [            { key: 'trigger_name' },            { key: 'template_uuid' },            { key: 'utm_source' },            { key: 'utm_campaign' },            { key: 'utm_medium' },            { key: 'utm_content' },            { key: 'utm_term' },            { key: 'account_adapter_uuid' },            { key: 'custom_url_params' ,children:[{key:"name"},{key:"value"}]},          ],        }, giving error only one level of nested  child is allowed

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P
2 years ago
naz
naz
asked in Developer Discussion

How to achieve filtering effect similar to lodash differenceBy?

I’m looking to possibly achieve a similar effect through Zapier formatter or filter to what lodash does with differenceBy utility function.For example, having a trigger which comes with an object of following format:{ current: { labels: [{ id: '5f212d395422021ebc4b7041', slug: 'old-label-1' }, { id: '5f212d395422021ebc4b7042', slug: 'old-label-2' },{ id: '5f212d395422021ebc4b7043', slug: 'new-label' }] }, previous: { labels: [{ id: '5f212d395422021ebc4b7041', slug: 'old-label-1' }, { id: '5f212d395422021ebc4b7042', slug: 'old-label-2' }] }}The effect of running differenceBy on this data would look like:> _.differenceBy(data.current.labels, data.previous.labels, (i) => i.slug)[ { id: '5f212d395422021ebc4b7043', slug: 'new-label' } ]Would be awesome to achieve this through Zapier utilities otherwise I think the be

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naz
3 years ago
skyvewire
skyvewireNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Input field for getting an object by id or name

The action is to update a Project. We want the user to be able to pass in the project id or the project name, since in our case project names are unique. Currently, we have two fields, one for the id and the other for the name. We have help text that says “Use this field only if the name field is empty” and a similar message on the other field. I think I have seen another zap integration that let the user switch between the two options in a single field but I am not seeing how to do that. Ideally we have the user choose which of the options they like in one field, instead of two. I know I could just use one field for both and do the check on the backend, but that would require doing the search for id and then searching for the name if id doesn’t turn up anything, but it would be nice to have a field that I could use that didn’t need that. 

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skyvewire
5 months ago
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HadarRBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Is it possible to clean user's selected option in dynamic dropdown after change selected option from other dynamic dropdown?

Hi, So I have 3 dynamic dropdown list which depended each other, for example:When user select option from list 1 then → list 2 appearing with values option according to selected value from list 1.When user select option from list 2 then → list 3 appearing with values option according to selected value from list 2. So far so good and i success to manage it using the relevant API calls and the “alter dynamic” option.My problem start when after all those steps above, if the user change again the selected option from list1, then my expected result will expose only the new values in list 2 where list 3 should be disappearing. In addition, the previous selected value from list 2 should be clean as well. Is it possible to implement it?

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M
2 years ago
lucas-quanto
lucas-quanto
asked in Developer Discussion

How to redact fields in auth data?

Hi, we are developing a Zapier Application, and when testing we noticed that the zapier logs are leaking the user private key that we use for autentication. It is on a `gpgprivatekey` field.  Is there anyway I tell zapier which fields are sensitive? It looks like environment and password are already redacted.Btw setting the field to password does redact in log, but removes all line breaks and trims the field which renders the private key invalid.

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ikbelkirasan
2 years ago
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topvovaBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Error when loading `zapier logs`

Hello Zapier team. I have a problem when loading logs in my console.> zapier logs✖ Loading logs › Error: "https://zapier.com/api/platform/cli/apps/109837/logs?status=any&type=console&user=me&limit=50" returned "503" saying "Logs are temporarily unavailable, › please wait 15 minutes and try again"I have been waiting for an hour and still have the same error in the console.Could you help me with that, please? 

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nicksimard
3 years ago
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kevin_rBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

URLs in integrations

In our application each company that we support has its own domain name. This seems to mean that I would potentially have to create separate integrations for each customer. Is there a way this can be avoided? Do any other of your partners have a similar issue? How have they solved it?

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K
3 years ago
Ruan
RuanBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Dynamic input fields from api

Hi I am trying to create these input fields in the input designer from our own api I want to make a call to our API so all the fields we have would be available here is there a way to do this please advise ? 

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shalgrim
9 months ago
sgee
sgeeBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Trigger Custom Code Error: Invalid API Response: - Results must be an array, got: undefined, (undefined)

Hi! I’m looking for some assistance in troubleshooting the custom code I’m trying to write for a trigger I’m setting up. I’ve referenced the Zapier documentation and other posts similar to the situation here, here, and here. The solution for this situation appears to be wrapping the response as an array “[]”, however, that doesn’t seem to be working in my situation. Below is my code and error response.  In the documentation for the API I’m trying to work with, the example request looks like this:const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {accept: 'application/json'}};fetch('https://api.portal.scanifly.com/api/v1/designs/63fbc6498b05fa000747513b?access_token=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx', options) .then(response => response.json()) .then(response => console.log(response)) .catch(err => console.error(err));When I run this code on npm.runkit.com/supertest I get the following results: Any thoughts on what I’m missing? Thanks!

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sgee
5 months ago
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BukaBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Array only returns first item on Search Zapier CLI

Hello, I have a very simple question that I have not been able to find an answer to in the docs or here. I’m trying to create a custom Search Action that returns a list of objects. I’m trying to figure out how to return an array.  I’m using Zapier CLI . Here is the sample code: sample: [ {  classes: [      { name: "Test1",},     {name: "Test2",},   ],}] However Zapier CLI  throws an error: “sample is not of a type(s) object” I would expect this to be the entire array, NOT throw an error or return just the first object. How do I correct this behavior so that my Zapier Action to return an array and correct the error?

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C
1 year ago
MiToMoTi
MiToMoTiNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Zapier Natural Language Action - Any experience integrating it with Airtable?

I've tinkered a bit with the NLA Beta from Zapier using LangChain and LLM's from OpenAI. Anybody else tried out to hook it up to Airtable?So far I've been following the guide from LangChain (Here's the Quickstart Guide) for  Zapier Natural Language Actions API. I've been successful with the example of finding the latest email of XX in your Gmail and making a summary of it but when it came to Airtable it became a bit more tricky.I've set up an action on Zapier's side and tried out a few different trials for finding records. It often hallucinates imaginary values/records.Here's the result: agent.run("Let's think step by step. Search in Airtable and find three records where in the name field, the word Hogwarts is mentionned. Then, provide me a list with the fulle name field of each record.")> Entering new AgentExecutor chain... I need to find three records that have the word Hogwarts in their name field.Action: Search Record Name FieldAction Input: Search_Value: HogwartsObservation: nu

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Z
6 months ago
bernat
bernatBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

More than one level of nested data, is it possible?

I’m trying to configure my Zapier app to support sending a payload such as:{ "data": { "obj_id": { "text": "Foobar" } }}Looking at https://zapier.github.io/zapier-platform-schema/build/schema.html#fieldschema I figured the above would be possible by defining the following schema:{ "children": [ { "children": [ { "key": "text", "label": "Text", "type": "string" } ], "key": "obj_id", "label": "Object Title" } ], "key": "data", "label": "Data"}However, this doesn’t seem to work. Any ideas on whether what I’m trying to accomplish is possible?

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ikbelkirasan
2 years ago
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david-ekoNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Can I build a zap action that takes in data and converts that data to a defined JSON schema?

I use software that allows edits to data objects via a JSON import function. It doesn't have an API for this import for various reasons that aren't changing for a while.I'd like to build a zapier action that can receive data from other tools and then reformat that data into our JSON data schema. Then I'd connect that action to a dropbox (or other cloud storage service) file download zap.This is possible to do with a dropbox write to a new txt file zap. That requires knowing how to carefully format a json file in the text editor and would be difficult for others so, I don't want to do that.Is it possible to build a Zap Action for my tool on the Zapier Dev Platform that does this? My plan would be to build this action and then share it with other people in my professional organization so they can hook up their own tools as well and I don't have to support each individual implementation.

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D
1 year ago
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marcin.developerBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Cache request that populates dynamic dropdown

How can I cache the data that was fetched for dynamic dropdown?I am building part of the action form based on user defined fields fetched from my API. { key: 'user_define_fields', label: 'Map user fields', required: false, list: true, dynamic: 'customFields.name', helpText: 'Choose custom fields to be mapped.', altersDynamicFields: true,},function (z, bundle) { if (!bundle.inputData.custom_fields) return []; const selectedFields = bundle.inputData.custom_fields.map(function (el, idx) { return { key: el, type: 'string' }; }); return { key: 'user_defined_custom_fields', children: selectedFields };}The issue is that every time user opens the dropdown to add another field (another line item) the resource `customFields` is fetched again. Is this somehow possible to cache that request? 

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M
1 year ago
A
AbbyDevBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Pre-publishing checklist. Is branding required?

Hello,I’ve been developing a Zapier Integration via the CLI over the past few weeks and we are getting close to submitting the Integration for review. As such I’m currently in the process of going over the Zapier Integration Review Guidelines and making sure that my team has completed all of the necessary steps prior to publishing. However, these guidelines state that prior to publishing we must:ensure all integration information and metadata is complete and accurate. Be sure to follow Zapier's standards for integration branding I’m not fully understanding where I can submit this information prior to submitting the Integration for review? When on the Integration development homepage, after clicking “Publish” the only App Details that I can enter are as follows:  Do we need to add the information described in the Branding Guidelines prior to submission? And if so how can this be done when the Integration is developed via the CLI?

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Brilliant16
2 years ago
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Daniel_GTC
asked in Developer Discussion

Issue with refresh token flow (validate endpoint)

Hi everyone!We’re developing an integration with Zapier, and while most of the OAuth v2 works well, the refresh flow is not working for us. It seems that Zapier instead of polling our triggers in every 15 minutes, and after it gets a 401 calling into the refresh endpoint, it is calling the /validate endpoint for our OAuth platform, which gives back 400 so the refresh flow never happens.Does anyone know when, where, why calls Zapier into the /validate endpoint?Can we alter Zapier’s behaviour to only call into the auth endpoint then the token endpoint, get an access token, call our service with that token over and over until it gets a 401 from our service, then call into the refresh token endpoint on our oauth platform? My team does not own the oauth platform, so I doubt modifying the /validate behavior to give back 401 is a valid route for us.Any ideas?Thanks,Daniel

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Z
2 years ago
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MOKNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Adding a new field in trigger output

Our Zapier Integration is in public beta. While making Zap Templates we’ve realized that we’ll need some more data to power some of the use cases. Do we need to follow the “promote > migrate > deprecate” flow for adding new fields in the API response that powers one of our Triggers? We don’t have any live users besides zaps created for testing. 

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Z
1 year ago
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jalil_bmNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Setup Quickbooks OAuth2 on Zapier

 Hello everyone!I have been trying for two days to connect zapier to QuickBooks but I’m getting always stuck, can anyone here assist me with what is the problem exactly? AND THIS IS WHAT I GET WHEN I CLICK “sign in to app_name….”   If you need any further information I would be glad to provide it!if there is any source from which I can get the correct way to setup a correct connection I would love to check itThanks a lot in advance!

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J
2 years ago
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itsjakegBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Connecting Zapier to US Census Bureau APIs

Hi Zapier community! I am trying to connect a US Census Bureau API to our Bubble platform. Is that possible?

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Troy Tessalone
2 years ago
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