How to add 'Create New Contact' and 'Add Contact to a Group'
I want to set up a ZAP that (1) Creates a google contact and (2) adds the contact, just created, to a group.
Step1 works well, and I find the function to add google contact to a group. But I dont know how to specify the contact just created. Using dynamic data?
Anybody can explain?
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Hi @JVNL
Check out this help article for mapping variables between steps using the ‘CUSTOM’ mapping option.
You’ll need to map the ID of the Contact created in Step 2 to Step 3.
I tried this earlier but keep getting an error. See printscreens attached
@JVNL
Try using the OriginalID instead.
Test of the ZIP is now succesfull!! Thanks a lot!
Last step now is to make a test with real data. But I am confident this works as well.
Hi there. I am also trying to create this Zap - it’s my first ever. In my case, I am using Google Forms to create Google Contacts. Here is what I have set up so far:
I saw this response in the thread:
You’ll need to map the ID of the Contact created in Step 2 to Step 3.
I want to know: since I am using Google Forms to collect the data, should I be using the OriginalID from the Google Forms step, or from the Google Contacts step? Does this matter?
Also I want to confirm that for every unique response to the Google Form, each contact will both be created AND added to the ‘SEND NEWSLETTER’ group. I find it a little confusing that the Set Up Action > Contact field asks to select a particular contact and doesn’t say something like “Use the contact just created”. In other words, I want to be sure that the Zap isn’t trying to add one contact to the group over and over every single time a new response is received (leaving the new responses un-added).
Hi @Caspers Park Foundation
In Step 2, you should map the email from the GForm in step 1, using the ‘CUSTOM’ mapping option.
I want to know: since I am using Google Forms to collect the data, should I be using the OriginalID from the Google Forms step, or from the Google Contacts step? Does this matter?
I also want to do something similar to what DougO did in this post:
I see that his thread has been closed and there are some things I couldn’t visually understand without the help of screenshots. Should I share my screenshots in this thread to ask for clarification or should I start a new thread duplicate to DougO’s?