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My Airtable to Email Zap triggering duplicate emails and Google Sheet entries.

  • 5 December 2023
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Adam From Chalo
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I created an automation where line items from AirTable record are “unpacked” and then processed with Looping by Zapier. Ideally I would like to send emails to each of the addresses, but I noticed that it sends me 2 identical emails to each address every time the Zap is triggered.

For testing purposes, I am sending the records processed by Looping by Zapier to a Google Sheet, but as you can see the rows are duplicated each time as are my mails. 

How can I solve this? Is there some setting I need to set?

AirTable record
Output test on GSheet

 

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Troy Tessalone
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Hi @Adam From Chalo 

Good question.

Please post screenshots with how your Zap steps are configured to give us more context.

Things to check:

  • Is the Zap Webhook triggering twice from Airtable?
  • Check your Zap Runs to see the data and timestamps of the DATA IN/OUT for each step

 

 

⚡ Troy Tessalone - AutomationAce.com | Premier Certified Zapier Expert | #1 Zapier Community Contributor
Adam From Chalo
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I checked the Zap historical, and it shows 6 repetitions. They should be only 3. 

 

 

Adam From Chalo
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This is my Zap configuration. Any advice on how to optimise it, it’s more than welcomed ;) 

 

Troy Tessalone
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@Adam From Chalo 

Perhaps you clicked the button twice in Airtable?

 

The timestamps for what appears to be the first 2 runs are 1 second apart.

 

⚡ Troy Tessalone - AutomationAce.com | Premier Certified Zapier Expert | #1 Zapier Community Contributor
Troy Tessalone
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@Adam From Chalo 

You may want to create an Airtable Automation to trigger the Zap webhook instead of relying on a user to click a button.

⚡ Troy Tessalone - AutomationAce.com | Premier Certified Zapier Expert | #1 Zapier Community Contributor
Adam From Chalo
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Mystery solved! I was clicking anyway just one. 

 

But there’s was some Chrome Extension that was triggering the webhook twice. Very weird, but problem solved. 

 

Thanks for your prompt assistance Troy! 

ken.a
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That’s fantastic news @Adam From Chalo! We’re glad to hear you were able to get it sorted!

Also, big thanks to Troy for lending a hand here!

If you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the Community. We’re always happy to help! 😊

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