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Barış YıldırımBeginner
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Legacy web builder async functions

Hello, We're trying to add async await functions to our scripts.I need help from developers.Is it possible to add async await functions to legacy web builder script?If not we tried to move our application from legacy web builder to zapier CLI and even if everything is remained same, we faced with an error. Is there a way to transfer existing app from web builder to CLI?

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2 months ago
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david-ekoNew
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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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2 months ago
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talalBeginner
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Using Zapier platform, i created two triggers for two separate Zap, first one is working but another one is not working.

I have invited user private Zap platform app, i created two triggers for two separate zap 1 is for getting newly created user, and 2nd one for getting updated user data.the 2nd trigger is not working even not show any zap history for it.when i create zap and test, it is working during test data.the webhook looks like this when REST hook subscription.https://hooks.zapier.com/hooks/standard/11942825/58942b0360a7466890c75e6894468332/

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2 months ago
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sociabble_devBeginner
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Show custom error message in case of 400 error code

Hello,I'm trying to display a custom error message to the user when a service call returns a 400 error.Indeed, our services return a 400 error code with a specific message.Example:{"errors":{"":["There should have only one occurrence of each language: fr 2 occurrences","There should have only one default language in Contents"]},"type":"https:/ /tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.5.1","title":"One or more validation errors occurred.","status":400,"traceId":"00-367e5cbb1a26ddb093fc31b10d23115c-53881c67df805217-00 "} In case of error, the user sees only the title content. (only Admin can see the entire content result on the monitoring interface)How can i do to show him the errors content? Thanks a lot for your answer.

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christina.d
Community Manager
2 months ago
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barisyildirimNew
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Cannot refresh default values of input fields

Hello everyone,I have an issue in an action that I created via Zapier CLI.I can populate new fields by changing variables but I cannot change the default values of input fields.Here is a loom record that I recorded from zapier.Even though I have written altersDynamicFields: true, it doesn’t change input field’s default values, but it changes whether input field should be rendered or not.Here is the code that I have written.I fetch other inputFields from the inputValues functionHere is the input values function 

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2 months ago
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Andreas.KBeginner
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Overwriting sample data for existing integration when new JSON data is inserted

Hello, we are trying to overwrite the sample data in the output of an existing integration.  Whenever we insert new JSON data, after reloading the page the data is overwritten. Where are we going wrong?  RegardsAndreas  

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2 months ago
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Michael SchmidtNew
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Zapier Custom Action doesn't pass through data from a dynamic field select list

For an action I use a dynamic field containing a list of users (ids / labels). I collect the users via Rest API and they are presented in the UI.I defined the list in the dynamic field code like:    const options = {        url: 'https://<mysite>.ngrok.io/rest/1.0/<my endpoint>?expand=users',        method: 'GET',        headers: {            'Accept': 'application/json',            'Authorization': `Bearer ${bundle.authData.api_key}`        }    }    return z.request(options)        .then((response) => {            response.throwForStatus();            return {          key: 'coverers',          label: 'Coverers for automatic reassigns',          placeholder: 'Choose a coverer',          choices: response.json.users,          list: true        }    });In the API request for the action I define the "coverers" property and it is filled with an array of the size of the number of users I add in the UI. But the values are all empty objects [{}, {}, {}]. The code for this is:

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2 months ago
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Barış YıldırımBeginner
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Is there a way to send Async request at Legacy web builder?

Hello everyone,The question is simple.How can I use results from the first api call at the second api call by using web legacy builder?From the previous topics I have learned that legacy web builder is not promise aware, but please let me know if there is another way to do this action.All Best.

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2 months ago
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Ryan LearnerNew
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Is it possible to write a unit test for input fields?

*For Zapier CLII am currently working on writing unit tests for my zapier App. The documentation doesn’t really give me a good example of this, but is it possible to write unit tests to cover your input fields that contain altersDynamicFields?The reason why I would like to test this is because the input fields actually makes a call to my API that influences certain fields to appear because the input field has the altersDynamicFields property.Anybody know a good route for this?

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2 months ago
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Maria RestrepoNew
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Change domain on a Zapier connection

Hi,I am new to Zappier and I created a zap to test the connection between my site’s wooCommerce to my Airtable app. Now that I finish testing, I change the domain of my woo site, and need to update my zap with this new domain. Is there a way to do this without mapping, or generating webhooks, etc again? Or do I have to everything do all over again?Thanks for the help!Have a great day!

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3 months ago
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OhMyMiBeginner
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Trying to create middleware from authentication

Hello,I’m trying to create Authentication middleware for bad status code response. I already try create new function called checkAvailability, it work but it seems like it will trigger everytime I turn on new zapier. also I’m trying to use z.request but I think I can’t do that. And also why it trigger twice? 

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3 months ago
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Israel MimouniBeginner
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Dropdown with all the values rather than one value per row

Hi, I have to use dynamic fields for my integration, but when I use the Trigger, I got all the dynamic values in every row rather than one value for each row, someone can explain me how to do it please ??    

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jesse
Community Manager
3 months ago
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Ryan SwabyNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Resthook conventions via CLI

I’m getting started with the Zapier CLI and I definitely would rather use rest hooks than polling. As I’m going through the CLI tutorial I see the example for creating a trigger file and it describes the convention as using a folder named “triggers”. I’m looking at the “How to use resthooks” section of the CLI documentation and I’m confused about the folder convention and file structure of these subscribeHook and unsubscribeHook functions. Are these resthook functions supposed to be separate files or are these functions supposed to be in my trigger file etc? Are there any sample applications that implement resthooks I could take a look at to understand the structure? I’m a backend developer so I understand implementing the resthooks in our API but I’m a little stuck on creating the JavaScript part of the integration via the Zapier CLI.

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3 months ago
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venkateshBeginner
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Testing with a Zap containing more than 2 steps

I am developing a Zapier Plugin for my application as a part of that, I need to test a Zap which has a Formatter step between Trigger and Action and this makes the configured Zap to have more than 2 steps. And Zapier is not allowing me to start the zap because I have a free license and the zap contains more than 2 steps. As a developer, Is there a separate developer license that I can get so that I can test the above scenario or is there any other way for developers to test this.Regards,Venkatesh Taduri

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3 months ago
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vanessaBeginner
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Sharing a Zap containing action Code by Zapier

Hello, I am about to publish my app on Zapier and I’ve come across an issue regarding a Beta Action: the Looping by Zapier. The issue is that I cannot share the zap since it uses a beta action. Does it mean I will not be able to use that action even when my app will be public?  Are Beta Actions not allowed in ‘production’??

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Troy Tessalone
Moderator & Certified Expert
3 months ago
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sicasasNew
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When do developers become partners and what analytics are available?

Good day, we are doing a study of web APIs and development platforms. We are looking at Zapier and other platforms. About Zapier, we have some questions. The developers who build integrations, are they partners at the same time? Are they only partners if they publish their integrations in the zapier directory? What are the analytics that developers and partners can access?

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SamB
Community Manager
3 months ago
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harveygrowformBeginner
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Friendly field labels / names - what format API response should I provide?

Hi folks,I am working on a Zapier integration for an online form builder. Each unique form for our users has lots of long, auto-generated field names.We have a trigger called “New form entries”, which polls our server for form entries, and comes back like this:[ { "id": "6209aee326baa600224d822c", "email_907058157108782": "test@test.com", "phone_589083232390193": "12345", }, { "id": "61fd629f19408200225e1893", "email_907058157108782": "test@test2.com", "phone_589083232390193": "54321", },]However, this results in end users seeing these really long, gross field names in the Zapier interface: My question: how do I get Zapier to display friendly labels to the user, whilst using the unique field IDs behind the scenes?I’m thinking of returning something like the following, but I need to know how to actually use “friendlyFieldName” and “value” in Zapier!-[ { "id": "62179ec5ab9daa0022df7d1d", "text_576692390099896": {

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3 months ago
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Barış YıldırımBeginner
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Requesting to add Async as a function to legacy web builder script.

Hello, We're trying to add async await functions to our scripts.I need help from developers.Is it possible to add async await functions to legacy web builder script, does it support?If not we tried to move our application from legacy web builder to zapier CLI and even if everything is remained same, we faced with an error. Is there a way to transfer existing app from web builder to CLI?

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3 months ago
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sanaNew
asked in Developer Discussion

How to send data to static webhook URL?

I have created a trigger whenever a user status changes, I used REST HOOK instead of polling, and it's working fine whenever the user status changes trigger runs and get the data but when I test it in zap editor every time it's giving a new Webhook URL. Can you please help me how I can use zaiper Static webhook URL?

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3 months ago
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jonathansimmonsNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Can't turn on Zap despite successful test

I am building a Zapier app for a SaaS product and have been fumbling through it. There seems to be a lot of vagueness around how the zap system works. For example, I have my App configured with OAuth 2.0. The authentication works fine; the perform list action is working. I can fully set up a zap with a Zapier Email action sending bits of the payload to myself in an email for a test. However, when I try to enable it, the zap turns itself off. The Zap’s change history shows my it was Zap Version Published, then Zap enabled, followed by: “Zap disabled due to a system or configuration error.”. There is no indication of why.I check my server logs and the only thing odd to me is that the subscribe API endpoint was called twice. both times providing a target URL for the zap but each with a different domain: one with just https://zapier.com the other with https://hooks.zapier.comI have an email out to support but I’m hoping someone here can give me some insight. I paid for a premier account be

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3 months ago
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FInditandsolveitNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Zapier API token validation

Hello, I am trying to create my first zapier app, I choose the authentication to be token based. When ever the end point returns any valid json on testing url the validation passes.How can I fail the validation if token is not valid? Do I return specific http status or there is some sort of json error I need to return, I could find any documentation  

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3 months ago
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jonathansimmonsNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Line Items configuration help.

So I’m working to build a zapier integration for our service. The data payload we send has a few different sets of arrays which I understand zapier refers to as “Line Items” I cannot figure out to work with these for the life of me. For example, we return a “contact like object” that, for the sake of this conversation, looks like  [  {     first_name: “jane”,     last_name: “doe,     email: “jane@email.com”,  },  {     first_name: “john”,     last_name: “doe,     email: “john@email.com”,  },]When I test the Zap, it sees the object and displays them as line items. But when I got to access the data, the first name key returns a comma-separated list of each object's first name. I.e. “jane, john”. This is useless. So I searched, found, and played with the Formatter tool and Looping by Zapier, but no matter what I do or how I configure these according to the docs, I still end up with the exact string. For example, I tried to dumb it down and make a google spreadsheet adding a row just like

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3 months ago
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galiconeBeginner
asked in Developer Discussion

Migration to new endpoint

Hello, Can someone tell me how Zapier knows if some entry is already processed? I have a situation where I am changing application from where Zapier gets data to process and I am curious on which field (maybe id?) Zapier knows that some entries are already processed when it pulls the data. Thanks in advance

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3 months ago
Brilliant16
Brilliant16Beginner
asked in Developer Discussion

How do custom fields work?

hi,I’m populating custom fields with the help of Dynamic Fields. I’ve a situation to confirm.ex: I’ve a dynamic Field API => fetch-dynamic-fields which loads custom fields including (subtype with altersDynamicFields.)Does dynamically created field having  'altersDynamicFields' => true,will depend on fetch-dynamic-fields API1 Here I’ve to build logic by prams. does this normal/correct?2- I’ve to build multiple dynamic-fields to entertain dynamic subtype? currently I’m following approach-1 where my subtype custom field is dependent on parent dynamic-field[ 'key'=> 'subtype', 'label'=> 'How Often Will These to-do Be?', 'choices' => [ 'daily' => 'Daily', 'weekly' => 'Weekly', ], 'altersDynamicFields' => true, 'show_under' => 'recurring'], 

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Brilliant16
3 months ago
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AmarbirNew
asked in Developer Discussion

Is there any way to create templates without publishing app in Zapier?

Just want to know if there is way to create templates without publishing the app in public. We need to create template first and then go for publishing it to public.But the problem is , we are building templates and some users are trying to access those apps as it is publicly available . Is there any way we can hide or restrict users to use our apps till we finished our templates. 

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3 months ago
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