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I set up a zap to create detailed calendar events from a google sheet.  What I am hoping to figure out is how to set it up so that when a row on a google sheet is changed or updated, that the event is also updated.

2 Zaps

  1. Trigger: GSheet - New/Updated Row
  2. Action: GCal - Create Detailed Event
  3. Action: GSheets - Update Row (log the GCal Event ID)
  1. Trigger: GSheets - New/Updated Row
  2. Action: GCal - Update Event (use the GCal Event ID)

Hi Troy, 

 

What do you then add as ‘Row’ information in 3rd action of the 1st App?

The Row ID of the Trigger Step.

Hi thanks i’ve got it working just about! It’s creating a row ID in spreadsheet and updating changes to rows. However, it’s creating new events and leaving the old ones in the calendar. Any thoughts on how I can clean this up!!?

i’ve tested a few more rows and it seems to be working now, not sure why it wasn’t cleaning out the old events immediately.. but i’ll take it.

Hi there guys

I have this working now, the thing is it it’s using all of my tasks up when I run it.

I think the G Cal event ID is continually creating a new version of itself. Is there any way I can stop this happening or get zaps to ignore this column?

Hey all, just wanted to summarise this thread for future community members:

As Troy mentioned, you can achieve this with 2 separate zaps.

In the first zap, we want to create a zap when a row is updated

  • Trigger: GSheet - New/Updated Row 
  • Action: GCal - Create Detailed Event
    • Then using the row ID from the trigger step, we want to create an action: 
  • Action: GSheets - Update Row (log the GCal Event ID)

Then for the second zap we want to trigger when a row is updated

  1. Trigger: GSheets - New/Updated Row
  2. Action: GCal - Update Event (use the GCal Event ID)
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