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My company has a calendar for leads to book an appointment, but I only want it looking at one persons calendar for conflicts and not looking at the CEOs calendar. The only option within the calendar settings was to create a Zap to get the action perform how we want it. However, I’m running into an issue with a loop now.

 

When an event is added to the appointment calendar it triggers zapier to create a new event and send it to the CEOs calendar. However, this created a loop, so I put a filter, but the filter isn’t working as I intended. 

 

What suggestions do you have to make this filter work without creating 100 looped invites?

 

Here are my filter settings:

 

Step 3:

 

Hi ​@KingOfKings 

Can you post screenshots showing how the Zap Filter step conditions are not working in live Zap Runs (DATA IN/OUT)?

https://zapier.com/app/history/

Hi ​@KingOfKings 

Can you post screenshots showing how the Zap Filter step conditions are not working in live Zap Runs (DATA IN/OUT)?

https://zapier.com/app/history/

 

 

 

 

​@KingOfKings 

Here’s why…

In Zap step 3, when you create an Event, it gets a new unique ID.

So in Zap step 3, the Event Subject has the Event ID from Zap step 1, which is different from the Event ID created in Zap step 3.

That means the Filter conditions in Zap step 2, will never be met, because the the Subject has the a different Event ID that being compared when the Zap triggers to run.

 

Instead, try including a common value to use to filter to indicate the GCal Event was created from another Calendar.

e.g. Subject = bSUBJECT] - XXX

Where XXX would be a static value. (Change XXX to whatever you want.)

Then you can Filter by the XXX in the Filter step condition to prevent the looping.

​@KingOfKings 

Here’s why…

In Zap step 3, when you create an Event, it gets a new unique ID.

So in Zap step 3, the Event Subject has the Event ID from Zap step 1, which is different from the Event ID created in Zap step 3.

That means the Filter conditions in Zap step 2, will never be met, because the the Subject has the a different Event ID that being compared when the Zap triggers to run.

 

Instead, try including a common value to use to filter to indicate the GCal Event was created from another Calendar.

e.g. Subject = bSUBJECT] - XXX

Where XXX would be a static value. (Change XXX to whatever you want.)

Then you can Filter by the XXX in the Filter step condition to prevent the looping.

Thank you, a static variable rather than a dynamic indeed fixed it.

Wow! Thank you for confirming that Troy’s resolution got the Zap running. This will significantly help our Community members to have as a reference for the same issue.

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