Notion Pages Not Updating Despite Successful Workflow Setup - What's Wrong?

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Hey I’m trying to set up a workflow that updates Notion pages. I tested each step successfully and deployed it and I get the “Updated page successfully” message. However, the notion pages aren’t updating

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[user-1]

Hi , could you share your Notion action configuration? Also could you share what is your usecase?

[user-1]

Hey !

Use Case:
When I save a URL to my notion database, it triggers a python script in Pipedream that takes the saved URL, extracts text from it, and updates the relevant notion page properties with the extracted data points

Notion trigger config:

import notion from "../../notion.app.mjs";
import base from "../common/base.mjs";
import constants from "../common/constants.mjs";

export default {
  ...base,
  key: "notion-new-page",
  name: "New Page in Database",
  description: "Emit new event when a page in a database is created",
  version: "0.0.4",
  type: "source",
  props: {
    ...base.props,
    databaseId: {
      propDefinition: [
        notion,
        "databaseId",
      ],
    },
  },
  async run() {
    const pages = [];
    const params = this.lastCreatedSortParam();
    const lastCreatedTimestamp = this.getLastCreatedTimestamp();

    // Get pages in created order descending until the first page edited after
    // lastCreatedTimestamp, then reverse list of pages and emit
    const pagesStream = this.notion.getPages(this.databaseId, params);

    for await (const page of pagesStream) {
      if (!this.isResultNew(page.created_time, lastCreatedTimestamp)) {
        break;
      }
      pages.push(page);
    }

    pages.reverse().forEach((page) => {
      const meta = this.generateMeta(
        page,
        constants.types.PAGE,
        constants.timestamps.CREATED_TIME,
        constants.summaries.PAGE_ADDED,
      );
      this.$emit(page, meta);
    });

    const lastCreatedTime = pages[pages.length - 1]?.created_time;
    if (lastCreatedTime) {
      this.setLastCreatedTimestamp(Date.parse(lastCreatedTime));
    }
  },
};

Update page step config attached:

[user-1]

any guidance? I’m currently blocked

[user-1]

Hi , apologize I missed your message. After you tested your action, Ii your action result, would you mind showing me the Input tab?

[user-1]

[user-1]

Thanks . I think the problem is the Property Types , it actually is the property names. So for example, if your notion page has the Asking Price, Cashflow, then your Property Types array should be {{ ["Asking Price", "Cashflow"] }}

[user-1]

You can simply select the Property Types that is automatically fetched for you per your page

[user-1]

I’m not able to configure it that way (screenshot). I need the page ID to be variable. Here’s my workflow:

1. A new page is created in a notion database
2. that trigger’s a python script that extracts data from the URL in the newly created page
3. The notion page that triggered the workflow is updated with the extracted data from step 2

[user-1]

I see , then you can manually put in the array of property names, for examples:

{{ ['Property A', 'Property B'] }}

[user-1]

I tried {{ ["Cash Flow", "EBITDA", "Gross Revenue","Asking Price"] }} and I got an unexpected token error

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[user-1]

here’s my example

[user-1]

Right. How is my config different?

[user-1]

I figured it out

[user-1]

My property type values were being exported as strings and they needed to be integers. It was confusing because it was saying the requests was successful