How to set up a Zap to send an email when a specific column in a sheet is updated?

Hi @danielle879235 

Good question.

Make sure to review the available help articles for using GSheets in Zaps: https://zapier.com/apps/google-sheets/help

“New or Updated Spreadsheet Row” trigger behavior

If you’re using the New or Updated Spreadsheet Row trigger and choose Any column to monitor, any change to a row will trigger your Zap. If you select a specific column, then the Zap will only trigger when there are changes on that column.

Note

Zaps using New or Updated Spreadsheet Row will also trigger for any new rows in the spreadsheet, even if the specified column is blank. To avoid triggering in those cases, add a Filter step to your Zap.

@danielle879235 

The "Updated Spreadsheet Row" trigger stopped triggering

If you're watching for changes to a column, we only see new values in that column. If you update the column of an existing row to a value that Zapier previously saw in that column, in that row, we won't see the new value. You will need to either choose a column that will only have unique values, or make a new one which will.

For example, if you had X in the Trigger column, then changed it to Y, the Zap would trigger. If you then changed it back to X it would not trigger again, because the Zap has already seen X in that column.

Yes, i am trying to figure out the filter part. Look what i attached as original post-- with those settings, its not triggering a zap. 

@danielle879235 

The Zap Filter step as it’s currently configured will never pass because it’s comparing to itself on both sides.

Try setting a static value on the right side.

Thank you. I want it to trigger if anything changes in the attached, so instead of rev 3, if it changed to rev 4, i want an alert. Basically, if anything in that cell changes, i want an alert

@danielle879235 

In the Zap trigger step you can specify the column to watch.

Then in the Zap Filter step for the middle operator use: exists

sorry- still not getting it. the way currently working, attached, nothing comes up

@danielle879235 

We would need to see screenshots with how all your Zap steps are configured to have full context.