hello I hope this is an appropriate forum to post questions about n8n. I'm stuck and hoping an expert in this group has a suggestion for me. both chatgpt and claude came up short (stuck in endless loops that aren't helpful) so either it can't be done or I need to find the answer somewhere else. I have an http node that sends a lead to GHL, and then another node that checks GHL to see if it's been imported so it can grab the lead ID to be used downstream. the problem is it takes an inconsistent time for the lead to populate in GHL. my best workaround was to just set a wait node for like 5 minutes between upload and checking the lead. anything less than that has occasional errors. what I'd like to do is set a much shorter wait period (like 10 seconds) and have a loop that checks basically every 10 seconds until the result is not null. the problem is I want to avoid any chance of an infinite loop so I thought to add a counter via a set node. unfortunately, the http node (that checks for the lead record in GHL) strips all set nodes so I can't increase the counter value. there has to be another way right? like maybe a max tries on a loop or something that I'm missing? I know I've seen other workflows people have built that has loops like that but I don't know if they were http nodes. I tried doing a merge with a set node before the http node but since the poll loop is after the set node, the loop ends when it hits the merge the 2nd time and only gets the one value. hopefully that makes sense... if anyone has any advice I would *greatly appreciate it* thank you for coming to my Ted talk...

I have spent hours trying to figure out how to take data from n8n and update a custom field in GHL and keep hitting dead ends. here's what I've tried so far: 1) using http node. it keeps giving me an auth error (yes I checked 1,000,000 times everything is correct) 2) using the native HighLevel node. it will only work when I can look up the contact by email address (even tho it says you can look up the contact by phone OR email, if the email is blank it will give me an error). if the contact doesn't have an email address (or you don't have that data in n8n), that doesnt' work obviously. 3) using the native HighLevel to first getcontactID, then using another HighLevel node to update the contact. this worked to find the contact and I can update the record such as the name or email, but when I try updating the custom field it gives me an error so I'm all out of ideas. it shouldn't be this hard. is there some sort of bug in GHL?

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guys, am I crazy? I have literally spent 5 hours with gpt and claude helping me and still have not figured out this most simple thing: take a new row (unprecessed) from google sheets, and check to see if the name is a duplicate in the rest of the sheet under the name column. I cannot... for the life of me... get this to work. can anyone please help me weigh in? I've ended up with this SUPER overcomplicated node that does work to check for duplicates, but it only runs once even t ho there's a loop there. so if I have 20 new names, it'll run once, check for a duplciate, and then stop. I feel like this entire thing is just wrong...

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