When creating a Zap there's a need to be able to check if member already exists within Ghost.
Example Zaps
[x] When a subscriber is added in Mailchimp, and that email address already exists in Ghost, update any missing attributes in Ghost (such as name, or label)
[x] When a person buys a subscription in Paypal ⇒ create a member in Ghost (optionally with a label) (NOTE: needs research into what's possible through PayPal first)
Technical solution
Need to add "search" (similar to author search) functionality along with possible changes in Ghost-Admin-API SDK (this needs checking).
Reasoning behind we are adding "search" and not for example "create or update" action. Search is a function that is suggested as the best practice by Zapier:
Create actions can also update existing items—something often paired with a Search to locate the item needing updates first.
Search actions, then let users do more with the data they’ve already added to your app. Perhaps they want to avoid adding duplicate items—and prevent errors from your API.
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Search actions can optionally create items if nothing is found for the search.
partially blocks https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-Zapier/issues/16
Problem
When creating a Zap there's a need to be able to check if member already exists within Ghost.
Example Zaps
Technical solution
Need to add "search" (similar to
authorsearch) functionality along with possible changes in Ghost-Admin-API SDK (this needs checking).Reasoning behind we are adding "search" and not for example "create or update" action. Search is a function that is suggested as the best practice by Zapier:
(reference)
Todo
searchquery parameter, alternative could be using?filterquery parameter