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maxwell
asked in General Discussion
Setting Up a Testing Environment

When we get new requests for Zaps, I want to set up a Zap pointing to my test server before I create a Zap pointing to production. I do this by having two versions of my Zapier integrations (1.0.0 pointing to testing and 1.1.0 pointing to production). The problem is that users can see the 1.0.0 integrations that point to the test server. Furthermore, when I finish testing on 1.0.0, I have to essentially recreate the integrations on 1.1.0 which opens the door to mistyping something.Any tips or tricks that would allow me to create a test environment that would hide any integrations in development and promote my test environment to another version?

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Liz_Roberts
4 years ago
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Anonymous
asked in General Discussion
How can I see some app version on dashbord

Can I somehow see app version which used for making zaps. Since users migration process could take a while - we need provide clients ability to see if they run the latest version of our app or yet previous one. It is quite important for closing issues and - reporting new ones if any.Thanks!Vasyl

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jesse
4 years ago
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sajjadx91
asked in General Discussion
How to send dynamic fields data to API?

Hello,I am creating an app that populates dynamic fields based on user's selection in a dropdown menu.When I am creating and test Zap, it doesn't seem to send the data from dynamic fields to API.How may I include dynamic fields in API call? Fields can be pretty random so I cannot hardcode it.

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Danvers
4 years ago
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MilanCSK
asked in General Discussion
Input field problem with children fields

Hi there,I have a problem with children fields output in create action event. In our system we have one field which is an object with three values so I have decided to use children for this. But when I want to add this field to request body I will get something strange from bundle.inputData. The 1st screenshot is log when input fields are created 2nd is UI of that field and 3rd is log from bundle.inputData. currency_id field and base_value should be pushed in that cf_multiple)currencies array and as you can see base_value is there. but the currency_id is not. Can somebody help me with this strange behavior? Currency_id field is dynamic dropdown. Can this be a problem?

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Danvers
4 years ago
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sajjadx91
asked in General Discussion
How to add second dynamic dropdown dependent on the value of first dynamic dropdown?

Hello,I am creating an app using UI. I am trying to create two dropdowns and make second dropdown dependent on the selected value of first dynamic dropdown:First dropdown is dynamic and trigger's API call returns this JSON:[{"key":"1","value":"Slack"}]I feel like this isn't the right response and I am doing something wrong.My question is how can I create second dynamic dropdown and make it get value from first dropdown's selected value?Thank you.

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S
4 years ago
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sajjadx91
asked in General Discussion
Fetching whole input payload in my App's Action

Hello,I am looking forward to build my first Zapier app which will take input from any other app on Zapier and save the input to FireBase (FireStore) via API I will build.In the UI, I don't see a way to fetch the whole input (without field/data mappings) and send to my API.My question is that is there a way (in UI or CLI) to fetch the whole input payload (with all fields) and send that whole payload to my API as JSON?Thank you.

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ikbelkirasan
4 years ago
khakman
khakmanBeginner
asked in General Discussion
How do you add a custom message to the Connection Authentication Error dialog?

The error message below is fairly friendly. However, we'd like to (if possible), add our own message below the red and above the numbered bullets (or elsewhere) to say: ...Your API Key or Account Number were incorrect. Here's how to find the credentials you need https://help.teamworkiq.com/en/articles/3625469...

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ikbelkirasan
4 years ago
Gemma
Gemma
asked in General Discussion
Have you been asked for APK of your app?

Hey guys - wondering if you can help. We have a new app in Zapier, it allows you to trigger your Zaps with NFC Tags. We've had a bunch of users (some of them you!) try it out, and it's looking/feeling good. Question is - we're currently going through the Zapier approval process to go public and it's also going seemingly well (Zapier has been in touch), but it's taking a while, and now this morning we've just been asked to send Zapier an APK of our app. Anyone got a clue as to why Zapier would ask for that? The app is free and downloadable on Android/iPhone. Seems a little out of the ordinary but perhaps I'm missing something. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance,Gem

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EmilyBreuninger
4 years ago
Robert_Segelquist
Robert_SegelquistTinkerer
asked in General Discussion
Mindbody Private App

I'm stepping over my line of experience as I do regularly...Trying to build a private app for Mindbody Online (https://developers.mindbodyonline.com/PublicDocumentation/V6#authentication) but the authentication is killing me.Somebody told me he's also done it with Session Auth, but I'm fouling that up somehow. Pointers would be greatly appreciated, or if someone had time to do a video call for an hour or so, I'd gladly pay for you time.Thanks!

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jesse
4 years ago
khakman
khakmanBeginner
asked in General Discussion
"Got a non-object result" error when testing a Zap

We are building our first app integration with Dynamic Fields, but are getting a "Got a non-object result" error message when testing the Zap that uses the integration...The app Action integration is set up like this...Notice that the "results" we return are the response.headers as a JSON String (see 2nd image below). That's because if we parse the response.headers first, when we test the below Zapier complains that we did not return a string (see 1st image below).We get an "[object Object]" is not a String ERROR if we parse the headers and return an OBJECT... We return a STRING... (the response.headers as JSON), we get no error on this step. BUT... in the Zap shown at the top of this post we get the "Got a non-object response' error.Thus one step requires us to return a STRING, then the next step demands an OBJECT.What are we conceptually missing? What are we doing wrong? What do we need to do do get this working?Thanks for your help!

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jesse
4 years ago
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rizasoylu06
asked in General Discussion
How can we get authentication url information?

How can we get authentication url information?Thank you from now.

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jesse
4 years ago
khakman
khakmanBeginner
asked in General Discussion
How to handle Zapier authentiation failure propertly?

I'm trying to display a friendly message on the authentication failure prompt in Zapier. Throwing an Error or HaltedError is always showing the stack trace and the console logs which I'd like to get rid of. Is there a way to only display a custom message we specify?

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Danvers
4 years ago
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ksasa
asked in General Discussion
Action output

Hello,I'm seeing a warning about missing action sample output for one of the actions I've created. I read in docs that actions should have some output data, however in this case, backend API doesn't return any data, so I'm wondering what to do about warning. Adding some dummy output doesn't seem right (as is adding piece of input data)... Thank you!

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Danvers
4 years ago
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jarrett
asked in General Discussion
API Call Retry

We have an endpoint in our API that we are using with Zapier that if it takes to long requires a retry after a few seconds. How could we implement this flow?

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PaulKortman
4 years ago
autogration
autogration
asked in General Discussion
Does subscription_url include what option was selected in the trigger?

This is probably a dumb question, but I'm working on developing my first REST zap. I created a webhook that allows the user to select a landing page to monitor. How do I know which landing page they selected? I assume I am supposed to manage that on my end and then send the update to the hook when that landing page is updated?

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autogration
4 years ago
Michael Lucas
Michael LucasZapier Expert
asked in General Discussion
App API requirements update

I know it's minor, but probably worth adding GraphQL to this. (We have created apps with AWS AppSync and it's working great) Request to add a new app to Zapier

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Danvers
4 years ago
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Anonymous
asked in General Discussion
QBO Invoice Updated Trigger

This discussion was created from comments split from: Polling quicker than 5 minutes.

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Danvers
4 years ago
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iarp
asked in General Discussion
Access integration version for use in header/url/various-other-places

I'm trying to figure out how to access the version of an integration being used for use in the API connection headers/url/...etc. I've tried bundle, authData, inputData and a few others that I guessed but version has not yet been found.

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matthew
4 years ago
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XlevelRetail
asked in General Discussion
Issues running zapier env commands

Hello Please i am new to Zapier and i trying to run the training using the OAuth2 template But i am running into this issue running zapier env 1.0.0. this doesn't seem right...Please will appreciate any guide to get past this line of commands

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X
4 years ago
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[Deleted User]
asked in General Discussion
Zapier logging is not working properly

I'm trying to fix an issue in a webhook trigger so I turn to logging everything via z.console.log to find out what is going wrong.Here's how the operations bit look like in my trigger module:operation: {        type: 'hook',        performSubscribe: subscribeHook,        performUnsubscribe: unsubscribeHook,        perform: getItem,        performList: listItems,        sample: sample    }So, I enable the test zap, fire the webhook and I expect to see some logs when I run the cli command "zapier logs". Running the command, sometimes it gets me a 503 error, saying "Logs are temporarily unavailable, please wait 15 minutes and try again". Some other times it does return things but I would only see logs from the "performSubscribe" function and nothing from the "perform" or the"performList" functions. I have set a send mail action in the test Zap and I do get an email when I fire the hook, so am I right to presume that on

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Danvers
4 years ago
viesturs
viesturs
published in General Discussion
I wrote about my experience with building a custom Zapier integration for Gleebeam

What's interesting about this integration is that my app uses Firebase for the backend so I had to navigate and merge the available features in Firebase and Zapier to create what I now believe is an efficient and secure integration! 🚀I think it turned out well and, in the end, I was able to create it just using the visual builder (there was a bug that prevented pushing code with the CLI at the time).Here's the full post: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/gleebeam/created-a-zapier-integration-for-gleebeam--Lug7RoJuvnwCc9nLTXNIf you're using Firebase for your app, I might be able to offer some help as it was at times not at all obvious to me how to accomplish certain things. Just let me know!

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Danvers
4 years ago
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raffael
asked in General Discussion
How to push app when "version not found"

I have some app source code that I want to deploy as a private app.I'm logged in from the CLII registered the app using `zapier register`I tried `zapier test` / `zapier build`/ `zapier push`This always gives me this error: Error: "https://zapier.com/api/platform/cli/check" returned "404" saying "Version 0.0.3 not found. This can happen when you aren't a collaborator or you haven't pushed your working version."I certainly am a collaborator (the only one)I cannot push anything because of this errorEnvironment:node 12.13.1zapier-platform-core 9.0.0source: https://github.com/alyf-de/erpnext-zapier/tree/develop

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Danvers
4 years ago
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peacetoallsouls
asked in General Discussion
What should I fill in here: Enter an API endpoint URL to test authentication credentials, ideally on

Enter an API endpoint URL to test authentication credentials, ideally one needing no configuration such as /me.

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ikbelkirasan
4 years ago
halftome
halftome
asked in General Discussion
Can I have multiple triggers use a single polling action?

For a quick example, imagine I have N resources. I could set up each of them to have their own triggers, which would result in N API calls per poll.But I have an endpoint which I can poll, which gives me updates on all of these resources in a single call. For example, if I GET /user/history it gives me a list of changed/added resources, and their resource type.I think it would be a complete waste to have each resource do its own polling to the exact same url, when 1 call would be enough. I know webhooks would be the best solution, but unfortunately I don't manage the API, and they do not have support for webhooks. What I would like to do, is to define one procedure/trigger, which in turn could run other triggers. Say I have a hidden trigger called: fetchUpdates which Zapier could use to poll every x minutes, but if the user had multiple triggers for different resources, it would not start making a lot of API calls. With this I could cut API traffic down by a large factor.The onl

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halftome
4 years ago
Vera
VeraZapier Expert
asked in General Discussion
how to tell the Zapier platform that an object is an okay response

Hi guys,I have developed an integration in Zapier Platform but I am getting this error when I use it in zap.when I was testing the API in Postman I got a successful message.Anyone know how to tell the Zapier platform that an object is an okay response in this case?

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Vera
4 years ago
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