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When an Airtable record enters, exits, and re-enters the view, will the Zap trigger again?

  • June 2, 2026
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I am creating a zap that triggers when a record is added to an airable, table. 

The  description shows,(see attached), that the zap is triggered “when 1st added to a selected view”

Does anybody know is a air table record enters, exists, and re-enters the airtable view - will the zap trigger? 

 

Thanks :)  !

 

Best answer by JoeNeedsToKNow

I think I found a solution:

The zap that was not working was Triggered by a New Record Step, filtered by record entering a View, which only allows 1st Time. 

I changed that to Trigger by Updated Record. 

 

This Worked!

 

Thank you for the help!

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Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • June 3, 2026

Hi ​@JoeNeedsToKNow 

Help links for using Airtable in Zaps: https://zapier.com/apps/airtable/integrations#help

 

View is an optional field in the Airtable Zap trigger config.

Zapier has built in deduplication for trigger steps.

So if the same Airtable record triggers the Zap 2+ times while the Zap is ON, then only the first instance will result in a Zap Run.

 

TIP: When in doubt, test it out.


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Thank you!

 

Im working to get past this limitation -- my use case is:

 

I have a airtable field called ‘Status’ which updates frequently. 

How do I setup a zap to trigger every time the status = “pending” 

 

Can Anybody help? 

Thanks 


Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
  • June 10, 2026

@JoeNeedsToKNow 

Create an Airtable View with a Filter that has a condition Status = Pending.

Select that View in the Zap trigger step.

See screenshot below.

 


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FYI

I did try to setup the zap to trigger when an AirTable record is added to a specific View;

A Filter that has a condition Status = Pending, but was not successful (in getting the zap to trigger on a previously triggered AirTable record).

The record did enter the AirTable filter, but the zap did not trigger.

 

Any help would be appreciated 🤗

Thank you

 

 

 


Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
  • June 10, 2026

@JoeNeedsToKNow 

Then you would need to create an Airtable Automation that triggers a Zap.

 

Airtable Automation trigger: When record enters view

This will trigger each time a record enters a view, even for the same record

 

Zap trigger: Webhook - Catch Hook

This generates a unique webhook URL to configure in the Airtable Automation Run Script action step.

 

Follow this guide: 

 


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  • June 10, 2026

I think I found a solution:

The zap that was not working was Triggered by a New Record Step, filtered by record entering a View, which only allows 1st Time. 

I changed that to Trigger by Updated Record. 

 

This Worked!

 

Thank you for the help!


SamB
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  • June 11, 2026

That's great news ​@JoeNeedsToKNow! 🎉 Glad you got it working by switching to the “New or Updated Record" trigger instead. Thanks ​@Troy Tessalone for helping out here. I'll mark this as answered! 😁