# Mostly automated goals

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mostly-automated-goals/4313>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [September 10, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mostly-automated-goals/4313 "2018-09-10T02:23:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![zedmango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@zedmango](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zedmango)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 12:21am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/mostly-automated-goals/4313/6 "2019-02-02T00:21:36Z")

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@dreev, @bee

> [@dreev](#):
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> One slight streamlining you can do is not bother to change the data source back to IFTTT. **We automatically do that when IFTTT sends a datapoint to a goal.**

This seems to conflict with this old post - did things change?

> [@IFTTT Channel is LIVE!!](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ifttt-channel-is-live/765/7):
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> Nothing will be screwed up by setting it as manual. when we see data come in from ifttt or zapier we set the data source, which lets us customize the email reminders and the form view – so we don’t ask you to enter data etc. changing it back will mean the reminders say “go enter data”, and the entry form below the goal will show back up. The data will continue to get added by IFTTT, and **if you go in and intentionally set it to manual we will leave it as manual (and not change it back every time we see a datapoint from IFTTT.**

Also see:

> [@IFTTT and Manual Entry Fiasco](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/ifttt-and-manual-entry-fiasco/720/6):
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> I pushed a fix for this 8 days ago. The bug, as far as I can tell, was in failing to set the “don’t try to be helpful and guess the data source of this goal” flag. That is supposed to happen when you change the source back to manual from IFTTT or Zapier. Have you set a goal to “Manual” and then had it overridden and switched back to IFTTT in the last 8 days? I just went through the steps locally to reproduce the bug, and it does seem to be fixed to me. Prediction: if you go and set the data so…

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