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How to trigger off a checked box in GSheets

  • 13 December 2021
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Hi everyone!

I have a google-sheet that is fed information from a form. I’ve added a checkbox to column A and would like to make it so whenever the checkbox is marked Zapier will copy the entire row and transfer the data to a different workbook/sheet. 

Does anyone know how this can be done?

This is my first post here, so go easy ;)


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Hi @Gman 

“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.

 

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.