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Google reported an error while processing this action: An error occurred while creating the Google Doc

  • March 25, 2026
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woups
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The precision of this error is completely useless…

Google reported an error while processing this action: An error occurred while creating the Google Doc

It happens +/- 10% of the time, always the same error, on different automation workflows.

When I rerun, it passes every time, and doesn’t waste space to tell me it passed because it passed.

 

I read it could be that it gets triggered while not all fields are filled, so I changed the trigger condition to “is not empty” for each of the relevant fields. 

I’m now out of clue, frustrated by this error description.

On this community, I see other having “Mail service not enabled” or “Calendar usage limits exceeded” or “You’ve temporarily hit Google’s rate limit” Those are useful.

But to report me an error for the reason that an error occurred.
First time I see this.

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ScottWorld
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  • March 25, 2026

@woups 

I would recommend opening a ticket with support@airtable.com about this, so they can investigate.

In the meantime, you may want to automate the creation of your Google Docs documents with Make’s Google Docs integrations combined with Make’s Airtable integrations.

You will never receive any generic error messages, and you will also get a lot more power & flexibility & customizability than Airtable’s Google Docs automations.

If you’ve never used Make before, I’ve assembled a bunch of Make training resources in this thread. For example, here is one of the ways that you can instantly trigger a Make automation from Airtable

Alternatively, if you’re okay with generating PDF files (instead of Google Docs documents) from your Airtable base, you can check out DocsAutomator or Typeflow or DocuMint.

Hope this helps!

If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld