"New or Updated Event in Google Calendar" triggered without active updates

Hi @AnnaT 

Perhaps these help articles will be helpful…

"Event Updated" is triggering multiple times on the same event

If you have a repeated event and you update the series, the Zap will trigger once per event. So if the event repeats 10 times, it will trigger 10 times. There isn't a way around this, as each individual calendar entry in a series is considered its own event.

• The Event Updated trigger will fire for calendar events autogenerated by Google, such as: birthday calendars, imported .ics files, imported .csv files.
• The Event Updated trigger will also fire whenever you update a recurring event and choose to update multiple events in the series.

The "New Event Matching Search" trigger is firing too often or on old events

If older events in Google Calendar are updated, this can cause the Zap to trigger on them. When checking for events on Google Calendar, Zapier looks at the last updated date and gets any events updated in the last three days, regardless of when they were created.

To avoid this, you can add a Filter step, to check if the Created at date is after a certain date, such as the Zap's creation date, and avoid old events triggering the Zap.

Make sure to check out the available help articles for GCal: https://zapier.com/apps/google-calendar/help

@AnnaT 

Do you have any reminders set on the GCal Event?

@AnnaT 

I suggest opening a ticket with Zapier Support so they can investigate further: https://zapier.com/app/get-help

You’re welcome, @AnnaT! :)

It’s possible that Apple Calendar could well be performing those updates. It may be worth removing the connection to it temporarily to see if the Zap then stops triggering unexpectedly.