Prevent Duplicate Slack Notifications from Google Forms
The article discusses how to prevent duplicate Slack notifications from Google Forms submissions. It emphasizes that the issue is often related to idempotency rather than formatting problems. Key solutions include checking for duplicate triggers, ensuring trigger setup is idempotent, and building a notification key for each submission.
- ▪Duplicate Slack notifications are usually caused by duplicate Apps Script triggers.
- ▪To prevent this, check the trigger list for multiple instances of the same handler.
- ▪Creating a stable notification key for each submission can help manage notifications effectively.
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