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Two-way sync

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Two-way sync, or bidirectional sync, is where an automation will mirror data from one system to another, both ways.

The classic example is if you change a phone number of a contact in one CRM, that same contact in another CRM will also be updated with that new phone number. And vice versa.

The system supports building two-way sync automations by connecting two-way sync triggers with two-way sync automations like this:

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The conditional checks to determine which trigger emitted data by checking for a non-empty data field:

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Typically some data conversions are necessary between the two systems. In the above example, date fields need to be formatted between the two systems.

From the dashboard, a two-way sync automation's sync mappings stored in the database can be viewed and edited if needed here:

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Each record shows the mapping between the two systems:

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A record can be edited or deleted with the buttons that appear when moused over:

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Searching can be performed by record id:

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All sync mappings can also be downloaded as a CSV file if needed:

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Updated 28 Nov 2023
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