Update or Create Contact with Specific API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Update or Create Contact with the Specific API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Update or Create Contact action
1. Connect your Specific account
2. Select a Contact Email
3. Optional- Select a Company ID
4. Optional- Configure Name
5. Optional- Configure New Email
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Update or Create Contact on Specific

Description:Modify an existing contact's details or create a new one if the specified contact does not exist. [See the documentation](https://public-api.specific.app/docs/types/contact)

Version:0.0.1

Key:specific-update-create-contact

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Code#

import specific from "../../specific.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "specific-update-create-contact",
  name: "Update or Create Contact",
  description: "Modify an existing contact's details or create a new one if the specified contact does not exist. [See the documentation](https://public-api.specific.app/docs/types/contact)",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    specific,
    contactEmail: {
      propDefinition: [
        specific,
        "contactEmail",
      ],
      reloadProps: true,
    },
    companyId: {
      propDefinition: [
        specific,
        "companyId",
      ],
      optional: true,
    },
    name: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Name",
      description: "Contact's name.",
      optional: true,
    },
    email: {
      type: "string",
      label: "New Email",
      description: "New email to update",
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  async additionalProps() {
    const props = {};
    if (this.content) {
      const { data: { customFields } } = await this.specific.query({
        model: "customFields",
        where: "{type: {equals: contact }}",
        fields: "name",
      });
      for (const { name } of customFields) {
        props[`customField-${name}`] = {
          type: "string",
          label: name,
          description: `Custom Field: ${name}`,
          optional: true,
        };
      }
    }
    return props;
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const {
      specific,
      ...data
    } = this;

    const customFields = this.specific.parseCustomFields(data);

    const response = await specific.mutation({
      $,
      model: "createOrUpdateContact",
      on: "CreatedOrUpdatedContacts",
      data: `{
        ${this.companyId
    ? `company: {
              connect: {
                id: "${this.companyId}"
              }
            }`
    : ""}
        ${customFields
    ? `customFields: ${customFields}`
    : ""}
        ${this.email
    ? `email: "${this.email}"`
    : ""}
        ${this.name
    ? `name: "${this.name}"`
    : ""}
      }`,
      where: `{email: "${this.contactEmail}"}`,
      fields: `
        contacts {
          id
          name
          email
          visitorId
          customFields
          company {
            contactsCount
            customFields
            id
            name
            visitorId
          } 
        }`,
    });

    if (response.errors) throw new Error(response.errors[0].message);

    $.export("$summary", `Successfully updated or created contact with email ${this.contactEmail}`);
    return response;
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Specific	`specific`	`app`	This component uses the Specific app.
Contact Email	`contactEmail`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Company ID	`companyId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Name	`name`	`string`	Contact's name.
New Email	`email`	`string`	New email to update