i am running new hires signal and also, job changes signal for a specific list of Hubspot accounts. Everytime there's a new hire, that adds this person back to to the contact list that is associated with these accounts and then, also adds a new task to the assigned sales rep about the account. But the issue is job changes signal also does the same thing about assigning a task and as that new hire is added to that contact list, will the new hire be detected as job change from the first signal and then there will be a loop of assining the same rep twice with tasks?
You're right to be concerned about this potential loop. When your new hires signal adds someone to your contact list, your job changes signal could detect that same person and trigger duplicate tasks. [1]
To prevent this, use a status/flag column to track which contacts have already been processed. Set up conditional logic so each signal only runs when the status is "Not Processed" and updates the status after running. [2]
You could also separate the trigger conditions - for example, only run job changes monitoring on existing contacts, not newly added ones from the new hires signal. [3]
This will stop the cycle and prevent duplicate task assignments to your sales reps.
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Both approaches work well! Here's what I'd recommend:
Separate lists is cleaner if you can manage it - have your new hires signal add to one list and job changes monitor a different existing contacts list. [1]
Adding filters gives you more flexibility - you could add a status column that tracks "New Hire" vs "Existing Contact" and filter your job changes signal to only run on existing contacts.
You could also use conditional logic like IF(Status = "Existing Contact", [run job change detection], [skip]) to prevent the overlap.
Which feels easier to implement with your current HubSpot setup?
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