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Notion action "Find Data Source Item" doesn't allow me to specify the page title

  • January 14, 2026
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roshangupta
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The Notion integration has an action “Find Data Source Item”, which will find an existing item or optionally create one if none is found.

It works great – except for the fact that when creating a new Data Source item, I cannot specify the name of that database item (the page title). That’s the most basic field one can set for a Notion database item, so I’m a bit surprised:
 

 

 

You can see the input step to the action, there seems to be a blank field at the bottom missing a key. I’m guessing that is supposed to be the Page Title, but because the key is missing, it isn’t being exposed as a settable field in the Action UI:

 

 

And you can see in the output of the Zap action, the page title indeed is coming back empty:

 

 

This feels like a bug to me, especially since if I use the “Create Page” Notion Action, I have the option to set a Title when I create a new page:

 

 

 

Am I doing something wrong, or could this be a bug? Without the ability to set the title when creating a page in the same action, I have to create an Update action (and use another task) just to get the name set correctly.

Best answer by roshangupta

Zapier support confirmed it is a bug and known issue, and is being worked on.

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Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
  • January 14, 2026

@roshangupta 

If you think this is a bug, then you can try opening a ticket with Zapier Support: https://zapier.com/app/get-help

 

Workaround options:

  • Find Item > Paths > Create Item, Update Item
  • Find/Create Item > Filter > Update Item

roshangupta
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  • January 14, 2026

I filed a bug, thanks for the link.

I also am already doing workaround #2 - it just uses an unnecessary task for an update step to just set the title of the newly created page (which should be a setting of the previous action to create a new page).


roshangupta
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  • January 16, 2026

Zapier support confirmed it is a bug and known issue, and is being worked on.


SamB
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  • January 16, 2026

Hey there ​@roshangupta 👋 

Thanks so much for flagging this here and with our Support team. I’m so glad you were able to get a workaround in place while the bug is being worked on, and sorry it uses an extra task! I checked the bug report and there aren’t any updates at the moment, but I’ll be sure to follow up here if there’s any news.

Let us know if there’s anything else we can help with in the meantime. And for anyone else comes across this and is running into the same issue, please leave a comment below to let us know so we can make sure you get an email notification once it’s resolved.