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Hello,

I am having issues with the Updated Database Item in Notion trigger for my Zap.

I have a Notion Database with several Person properties which, when edited, contain a specific person who will serve as an approver for that DB item. (Example: IT Approval, Cybersecurity, GDPR, etc.)

The Updated Database Item in Notion triggers of every update made, and a specific person (the update that actually triggered the Zap) assigned to a department approval property needs to be contacted as a result.

I thought this would be straightforward by adding a filter or similar step after the trigger which would determine which property was actually updated and find the contents (value) of this update.

In tldr form:

  1. Updated DB item in Notion triggers
  2. Which property was updated?
  3. The value that was edited for this property - person
  4. Find the person in Slack or email
  5. Send a message to this person

Do you think this is something you could help me with or is this not achievable via Zapier?

Hi ​@Andro 

Notion would need to return a data point that indicates which property was updated.

Otherwise, you would may need to add logic to track when a specific field was set/update in another field to use as a reference in a Zap Filter step: https://zapier.com/apps/filter/help

Perhaps native Notion Automations can be used to help: https://www.notion.com/help/database-automations

Hi Troy,

Thank you for the clarification, it helped.

I managed to find a workaround, somewhat. I am using additional date properties for each of the relevant Person properties which get auto populated on edit by the native Notion automation.

Then I filter out the most recent one with a formula - nested IF function to return the name of the last edited property.

It works well except Notion API does not have a timestamp in seconds with the dates so the changes need to be done in at least 1 minute intervals from each other for this to function properly.

That’s awesome, ​@Andro! 🎉 I’m so glad Troy was able to help point you in the right direction—thanks ​@Troy Tessalone! 🤗

Great work on using a nested IF formula to help filter out the most recent one! 🙌 That’s a really smart approach.

Such a shame that the timestamp from Notion doesn’t contain the seconds! I saw that you reached out to our Support team, and they added you to a feature request that’s come up before in the Community:

We’ll be sure to let you know if that feature has been added. Hopefully, spacing out edits by at least a minute isn’t too much of a hassle in the meantime! 🤞

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