Life-cycle of a Zap

Question

I am writing this out of curiosity. So let’s take a scenario:

A trigger that creates a contact in app A.
Action in app B where we sends out a message on the contact details received from app A
Search contact in app A
if (no contact made before) Sends another message on the contact details received from app A

Question: Trigger sample data received from app A and the result of search action of app A in step 3 will contain the same information? or would it contain some new information from the action in step 2? Can someone please explain the life-cycle to me?

Troy Tessalone · Accepted Answer

I am writing this out of curiosity. So let’s take a scenario:

A trigger that creates a contact in app A.
Action in app B where we sends out a message on the contact details received from app A
Search contact in app A
if (no contact made before) Sends another message on the contact details received from app A

Question: Trigger sample data received from app A and the result of search action of app A in step 3 will contain the same information? or would it contain some new information from the action in step 2? Can someone please explain the life-cycle to me?

Depends.

If there is no delay between steps 2 and 3, then it’s likely the data from step 1 and step 3 will be the same in the use case you’ve described.

If there is some other integration between App B in step 2 and App A, then there’s a chance data in App A could be updated by data in App B, meaning step 3 could return different data.

adilalich · Answer

@Troy TessaloneThank you for yourreply. What do you mean by “delay” here? Are you referring to the Delay by Zapier action?

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