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adilalich
adilalichZapier Expert
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Possible Zapier bug?

Hi everyone, I’ve faced one issue several times and thought I’d share it with the community to see if it’s a known bug in the system or if I am doing something wrong. In a zap, the backend value for some mapping is generally denoted by {{numericalNumber_nameOfField}}. This value then gets translated to the real value. Front-end value is: QW7PS022C0B90 Backend value is shown in highlighted portion Issue here is Zapier should’ve translated the backend value into the frond-end value and my search action would have worked fine. I think it's a bug? if it’s or not - please recommend a solution.

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nielsmouthaanBeginner
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Use CloudKit Web Services' authentication flow in combination with Zapier

Hi all, I'm developing a Mac app that uses CloudKit as its back-end. Some of my users are requesting the ability to ingest and extract data via an automation/integration service such as Zapier. For this, I need to introduce a web API. I am planning to use CloudKit Web Services to access the app's data. This data is user-specific and hence, resides in a private database. As a result, CloudKit requires user authentication as described here. Essentially the user needs to be redirected to an Apple-hosted authentication page. After successful authentication, an authentication token is provided that can be used for data operations. Similar to how OAuth2 works, but different enough to not work with Zapier's (or probably any other similar services) supported authentication schemes. Who has done something similar? What are my options? I want to keep things as simple as possible and make my web API's implementation as thin as possible. Thanks. Niels

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paddy21Beginner
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Note able to add connection

I’m not able to add connection for my app. I’m facing below error always: Please let me know about this error as I’m not able to figure it out.

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paddy21Beginner
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Refresh token - Only absolute url error

I have implemented zapier for multi tenant app. I have added form field for sub domain and Oauth 2 is working fine and able to connect. But refresh token is not working for dynamic sub domain. It always shows error like : Only absolute URLs are supported. Any help will be much appreciated.Thanks

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Zsolt MiskolcziBeginner
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Trigger input that is a search

Hello, there! We want to create a hidden trigger that should select a user as an input. The trigger’s setup should be the following: first, select organization via a dropdown after that, search for a user (it should work only on the selected dropdown) And the final input that we want to work is the user itself. Unfortunatelly, I haven’t found a way to get that functionality. I have tried to create a hidden trigger that has a dynamic field for organization selection and a dynamic field for the user search. It worked fine, it gave back the list of the mathing users based on the search criteria. After that my next step would just to put that hidden trigger as a parameter of my other trigger. And with this embedded version, it didn’t even showed the inputs of the hidden trigger. As I have checked, it is possible to implement it (Trello has similar functionality), but I have no idea how could I implement it. Do you have any advice on that? Thanks, Zsolt

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CommissionlyBeginner
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How to force an update in api configuration when fields are added to input designer

I am using the Integration online tool to create a Action I need to add additional fields to the Input designer , but when i do the api configurator does not add the fields either in form mode or code mode. Is there a way to force the update without starting from scratch again?

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gungahliaNew
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newbie - can I redirect the zap at completion to go back to another page on my website?

Hi I need to do more automation and link my website to my financials and calendar systems. I have created and tested the first zap which I think will work. the workflow is to access my calendar system (booklikeaboss), then payment (paypal) and invoice (xero). I have done some basic zap creations and tests and all is good so far, but the question is I think more basic. as a last step of the zap, can I redirect the workflow back to a specific page within my website?

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ErncnNew
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Rarely changing ids?

I am developing a zapier integration. When I test my trigger, I can see the polling response with ids. For testing, I added a Gmail action and sent a test email. The problem is that the ids change once a month. I can not get emails for the batch when I activate the zap. How can I solve the issue?

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weetabixNew
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Add input fields dynamically after a dropdown selection

Hello, I am creating an integration for my compagny and I can’t figure out how to add input fields dynamically. I will illustrate my issue with an example : I have a first dropdown in which I can select a user Depending on the user I selected, I have another dropdown with many fields like adress, name, date of birth, etc…. The idea is to be able to select as many fields as I want to edit into my second dropdown and generate dynamically one input field for each field selected to map it to a Google forms. I am able to create the two dropdown but I see no information in the documentation on how I can implement the generation of input fields according to a selection ? Does anyone have an idea ? Is there any other solution ? Thank you

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khakman
khakmanBeginner
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Ordering Output fields

Hi, Is it possible to specify an order for the output fields? We are using dynamic output fields to generate the labels to display for each property returned in the output, but getting the list of these results in the next actions always shows the fields in a different order than what was specified.

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roboticcxBeginner
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Newbie question - use authentication response payload in subsequent triggers

I have a JSON response from the authentication step that includes a key pair with a customer ID value that I then need in the next trigger as a form parameter for a POST to retrieve some data for that customer. I am probably being very dim but I just can’t how to reference API call response data in the Zapier code.

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AlexandrBeginner
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Same children fields in a different parent fields

I have a `create` with a fields structure like: inputFields: [ { key: 'parent1', children: [ { key: 'child1', label: 'Child1', type: 'string', }, { key: 'child2', label: 'Child2', type: 'string', }, ], }, { key: 'parent2', children: [ { key: 'child1', label: 'Child1', type: 'string', }, { key: 'child2', label: 'Child2', type: 'string', }, ], },] And in this case only the `parent2` group will be displayed in UI of the action. Isn’t it a bug in UI as parent keys are different?

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rahulKicka$$Beginner
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Can I use Zapier to connect my App to Various CRMs

Hi All Customers are requesting our App’s data in their CRMs. Conversely, our app also needs data from a customer’s CRM. Is their a way, we can use Zapier to have our app to talk bi-directionally with various CRMs such as Salesforce, Dynamic CRM, Zoho etc.

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Randall CodingBeginner
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REST Hook not performing action and apparently doesn't accept the data pushed to hookUrl? But no error message.

Some background: I have got everything set up to use REST Hooks except the last part. I have the subscription and delete subscription API endpoints set up and working. I receive the hookUrl parameter upon subscription. If I post to hookUrl without any data I get an action triggered (though with blank data, so no use there). The problem: If I post to hookUrl with data in the body of the request, the response still says OK but no action is triggered. There must some error going on but I’m not being told about it. Can someone give me insight into exactly what my POST data should look like? The documentation doesn’t quite say it. It says an array, but I am providing an array in “body”, just like the array I was using previously for “polling” mode but still getting this silent error.

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keithturleyBeginner
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User Authentication accounts (OAUTH2)

What is the best way to go about making sure transactions are created by the actual end users creating them when calling API’s. We use the Zoho invoice and estimate API’s which have accounts setup via the out of the box API’s within zapier and also we have custom API’s configured with OAUTH2, given that the OAUTH2 deals primarily with authorization and not user authentication every time we create an estimate or invoice via Zapier the created by user is stamped on the host application as the central account user that configured the connected account in Zapier. Is there a way to set the users client credentials to be used with OAUTH2 so that when the API is physically called it recognises the transaction is being created by an actual user of the application or does this require a feature on the API side to handle this?

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MaheshbsNew
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Zapier Integration Authentication

I am trying to integrate zapier to my application, how to get client Id and Client Secret from Zipier for authentication.

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khakman
khakmanBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Instant Trigger deduplication not working

Hi, At TeamworkIQ we’re creating our first Instant Trigger. This trigger is returning a set of items it fetches from our server. Each of the item returned has a uniq id property, but calling the webhook that triggers the zap more than one time will continue to run the next steps with all of the items in the result, it is not filtering out those that have been seen in a previous execution by the id. The perform operation of this trigger is actually shared with another Poll Trigger in our Integration, so we could test the same trigger in both Poll and Instant types, and receiving the same results.

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khakman
khakmanBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Instant Trigger Authentication is possible?

Hi At TeamworkIQ, we’d like to implement a security mechanism for the Webhook requests to be authenticated. Receive a secret as a response for the Subscribe operation that needs to be stored in the Zap context. Validate a header sent on each webhook request before triggering the zap Is it possible to store a property received on the subscribe request in the bundle object for the zap? Or any other place? CleanedRequest documentation mentions we could access the headers property, but trying to test this, I’ve only been able to get the body payload and a querystring property. Is it possible to have this validation on every webhook request received and accessing their header before proceeding to run the zap?

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DivyaNew
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IP restriction error while connection Salesforce with Zapier

Hello Team, We are trying to connect Salesforce with Zapier, however, we are receiving the below error. In Salesforce, the user I am trying to login has IP restrictions. Hence, it would be great if you could provide us with the IP ranges used so that we can add the same to Salesforce and see if it works. Thank you!

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khakman
khakmanBeginner
asked in General Discussion
Instant Trigger Zap turns off on every webhook request

Hi, I’m creating a simple demo of an Instant zap using the Recipe sample code for a Hook Trigger, and sending a Slack message as a second action. After the Zap is tested and turned on, every time I do a request to the Webhook URL the zap ends up turning off. The Zap editor doesn’t show any alert/error apart from showing the zap off. Testing both steps are ok. The Monitoring tool doesn’t show any error log, only the webhook request received. No additional information. Zap history doesn’t show any record of the zap running before it is turned off. I createda a “Zap turned off” alert, but the data provided doesn’t have any useful information apart from the time the zap was paused, again, editor, history and monitor doesn’t show any error logs. I am using the CLI to create this trigger, is there a way to get a log from there?

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krupahthakkerBeginner
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"We could not find a client" message On testing a unsubscribe trigger

On sending the subscription request via postman, it returns the below response as expected. Now I want to setup the unsubscribe trigger in my Zapier intergration account but it is giving me the below message. Please advice. I got the following response on executing the webhook. { "id": "e8940575-13ac-4d4f-9cb9-2e0ab6f6b256", "request_id": "60005fd2-fa1b-455b-bc88-15bc7f7a00f0", "attempt": "60005fd2-fa1b-455b-bc88-15bc7f7a00f0", "status": "success" } I then used the “id” property from the above response as a parameter for the unsubscribe request like below. I then saved the API configuration and proceeded to the next step which is Test the API Request. On click of Test Trigger I got the below message. What does this indicate? Do I need to setup anything else in my Zapier Integration Account? Can someone please adivce on how to fix this ? Thanks

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sub150Beginner
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How to edit label of a dynamic field

Hello, I’m building an integration and I have in an action a dynamic dropdown followed by another dropdown which values depends on the first one. In order to do the second dropdown, I used a dynamic field which returns the following : return z.request(options) .then((response) => { response.throwForStatus(); const results = response.json; const field = { key : 'champ_type', choices: results.items.map(x => x['fieldId']) } return field; My problem is that I get a list of fieldId and I would like those items to have an understandable label ( in my case, it’s fieldLabel instead of fieldId). Can someone help me with this ? Thank you. :)

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sub150Beginner
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Polling : Get all data before looking for new entries / updates

Hello, I’m working on an integration and I would like to add the result of my API call to a Google spreadsheet and then check for new entries or updates. The problem is that when I setup the trigger I have to test it and that automatically adds the first element of my returned array to the spreadsheet. It means that it will only check for updates on this element instead of all the elements of the array returned by the API. Is there a way to add those elements to my spreadsheet ? Thank you

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Nevo DavidBeginner
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Trigger Response Empty?

I tried to search in many places, I can’t figure out what’s wrong. I have created a trigger (without the cli). In the subscribing time, I return back an array. But zapier says “We couldn’t find a X”. I even tried to send some mock data. Nothing works. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

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Mercology
MercologyZapier Expert
asked in General Discussion
Authentication: Combination of Session Auth and Basic Auth

Here’s an interesting Authentication approach. This App requires a combination of Basic Auth and Session Auth. Per the documentation https://api2docs.rfms.online/#auth-info-e78eadda-8135-40e5-8fa3-e24bfc70c0f8, the following must occur: Call the "Begin session" method (below) using HTTP Basic Auth to generate a session token. REQUEST URL: https://api.rfms.online/v2/session/begin Method: POST Basic Auth: username:password (in base64) RESPONSE { "storeId": "xxxxxx167b8", "authorized": true, "sessionToken": "rfmsapi-xxxxxxxf9a5d0590", "sessionExpires": "Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:25:27 GMT" } The session token can be used for a limited time. It will expire automatically but is extended each time a method is called. The session token is sent with all API requests as the password using HTTP Basic Auth. User name should be set using the same user name you used in the first step. REQUEST URL: https://api.rfms.online/v2/customers Method: GET Basic Auth: sessionToken:password (in base64) RESPONSE JSON

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