I have a zap that starts with info coming in via webhook. This zap has the following steps
30 day delay
Then an order is placed in Shopify
Then another 30 days delay
Then a second order is placed in Shopify.
I need to edit the zap to add some new steps in there. But I’m concerned that editing the zap will have an impact on people who are working their way through it.
Will editing a zap of this nature for an hour or so have any impact on users currently going through the zap?
Thanks
Dan
Best answer by christina.dBest answer by christina.d
Hiya
Our team did some digging for you and wanted to ask if you’ve had a chance to check out out Drafts? It’s currently in Beta but you can opt-in here.
It sounds like it may be a good option to build your new flow while keeping the current zap active. We double checked with the squad and the expected behavior at the moment is if your zap is updated in the middle of a delay the next task will run against the new zap once it’s published from Drafts.
Here’s where you can read up on how to “Create drafts of your Zaps” if you’re curious!
+7Hello
Once you start editing any Zap built inside Zapier it will be turned off and all the automated actions will not processed.
I wouldn’t suggest you edit the existing zap.Instead try duplicating the zap and make the changes until you build the zap completely ready for your usecase.
Later turn the Duplicate Zap ON and turn off the old zap.
+14Hi
Good question.
To avoid a situation like this it’d probably be better to log all the data in an Airtable Base.
Airtable has Views. (cuts of data)
Views have Filters. (e.g. Create Date is 30 days ago)
Views can be used to trigger Zaps.
Thus you remove the need for Delay steps in Zaps, because the View Filter would be configured to act as the Delay.
+9Hiya
Our team did some digging for you and wanted to ask if you’ve had a chance to check out out Drafts? It’s currently in Beta but you can opt-in here.
It sounds like it may be a good option to build your new flow while keeping the current zap active. We double checked with the squad and the expected behavior at the moment is if your zap is updated in the middle of a delay the next task will run against the new zap once it’s published from Drafts.
Here’s where you can read up on how to “Create drafts of your Zaps” if you’re curious!
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