I have values that I need to store and be accessible to different zaps. For instance, email addresses, form URLs and other things that may need to change. I don’t want to update dozens of places across numerous zaps, I want to update in 1 place.
This is coding 101 basics… but, I can’t see how to accomplish this in Zapier??
Thanks.
Hi
Good question.
Try using Storage: https://zapier.com/apps/storage/integrations#triggers-and-actions
Similarly you can use GSheets or Airtable to act as a lookup table:
Actually ya, I figured out a hack-ish way yesterday using GSheets to store key/val pairs and then parse the config into a usable list of variables using Python. Seems to work, but it uses 2 task executions in each Zap just to load a basic config.
The Storage by Zapier… how can I load/manage the configuration outside of Zaps? I don’t want to run Zaps to update a config… seems a bit ridiculous. What trigger to use in such case anyway?
It is beyond ridiculous that I need to do such things just to access some global vars/config…
The Storage by Zapier… how can I load/manage the configuration outside of Zaps? I don’t want to run Zaps to update a config… seems a bit ridiculous. What trigger to use in such case anyway?
You can use a Zap that is NOT turned ON to set the Storage variable values.
There is also an API available for Storage.
It is beyond ridiculous that I need to do such things just to access some global vars/config…
Zapier has not had global variables.
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