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Zapier's Update User Action

The "Update User" action explained in detail

Updated over a week ago

What This Means

When you’re in Zapier’s Update a User action, there’s a field labeled User ID.

  • That User ID is how Honeycommb knows which person you want to approve.

  • When Honeycommb sends a webhook with a user ID to Zapier, it includes that person’s ID number in the data (for example: 12345).

  • You need to tell Zapier: “Use the ID from the webhook” instead of typing something in manually.

How To Do It In Zapier

  1. In the User ID box, click inside the field.

  2. Zapier will open a dropdown with variables from the webhook.

  3. Scroll or search for ID (or User ID—it’ll be the numeric ID from the “User Created” trigger).

  4. Click that.

    • Zapier will insert a little gray tag like {{12345678__id}}—that’s the dynamic ID from the webhook.

  5. Now, every time the Zap runs, it will use that new user’s ID to approve them.

Basically, you’re telling Zapier: “Whenever a member does 'x', grab their unique ID from the webhook and do 'y' for that exact member.”

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