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What were we doing to transfer all historical data to Sheets via Zapier?

 

Helix

 

Hi @eartechnic

 

Welcome to the community. To automate data transfer from Facebook Potential Customer Center to Google Sheets, set up a Zap using Facebook Lead Ads as the trigger, select 'New Lead', connect your Facebook account, then set up Google Sheets as the action app and map relevant fields, finally test and activate your Zap. Let us know if this helps you jump start your Zap. Thanks!


Thanks @JammerS. But I'm not talking about the new ones coming to me, I'm talking about the 9000 records that are already in the meta potential customer center.


Hi @eartechnic,

At the moment, Zaps are only built to look at new and incoming information, and won't process existing data. You can read a bit more about this here: https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8495906143373-Why-isn-t-my-Zap-triggering-on-existing-records

This means that data created before the Zap is turned on won't be pulled in automatically.

That said, if you're able to export that data as a spreadsheet or CSV file, you may be able to "import" them using a separate Zap. This guide has some great visual references for getting that workaround set up: https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496274335885-Transfer-existing-data-using-a-Zap

Hopefully, this helps.