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Hello, 

I have a spreadsheet where each row corresponds to a person’s information.

The spreadsheet’s headers are : Name + Email address + Contract + Email sent.

I need Zapier to send an email to every person in whose line a certain condition is met (when the column “contract” says “ok”). Once it has sent the email, I need it to indicate it by updating the column “email sent” to “yes” so that it doesn’t send the email again. The idea is that everyone who needs to receive that certain email gets it at the right time, and only once.

 

 

I had created a Zapier that : 

STEP 1- checked if the column “Contract” said “OK” AND the column “Email sent” was empty (didn’t say “yes”)

STEP 2- When both rules were respected, it sent an email to the person in question (through the email address indicated in the column “email address”)

STEP 3- once the email had been sent, it updated the column “Email Sent” of that row to “yes” - that way, the first step was wrong and the email wasn’t sent again. 

 

However, it stopped working recently and now, for my STEP 3, I can only find the action “Update Spreadsheet Row”, where I need to give a fix number of a row. This doesn’t work in my process, as I need the “Email sent” cell of each row to be updated, once the email has been sent. 

 

How can I solve this ? 

 

It used to work and now it doesn’t and I can’t figure out why !

 

Thank you for your help ! 

Hi ​@LaurenBarriere 

In the Zap field, click the h...] button at the right to switch to “Custom” mode, then use the s+] button to map a dynamic variable from a previous Zap step that represents the Row ID, which will be a #.


Hi ​@Troy Tessalone 

Thank you ! 

However, I’m not sure I understood well… I switched to the “Custom” mode and clicked on the i+] button, but I didn’t understand what I was supposed to write there. 

Should I write “Row ID: #” (where I really put the sign 😵 or should I select something, or should I simply write the sign # or… ? 

Because I followed your steps and put in that (see image) and it still didn’t work because it only applied the rule to row 30 even though that one is empty and it shouldn’t have done anything there… 

 


@LaurenBarriere 

Your screenshot shows the correct configuration for the field: Row

TIP: Click field labels to see tooltips with more info about the field.

 


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