---
title: "Apps Script: solutions to the issue “installable triggers failing when created from another trigger function in V8”"
author: "Marko Kolombo"
date: 2023-02-22T20:39:52+00:00
canonical_url: https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2023/02/apps-script-solutions-to-the-issue-installable-triggers-failing-when-created-from-another-trigger-function-in-v8/
markdown_url: https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2023/02/apps-script-solutions-to-the-issue-installable-triggers-failing-when-created-from-another-trigger-function-in-v8.md
categories:
  - "Intermediate"
  - "New IDE"
  - "Solutions"
  - "V8"
  - "Web App"
tags:
  - "@marcomow"
  - "Medium"
featured_image: https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2023/02/DALL·E-2023-02-22-20.30.47-picture-which-illustrates-times-alarms-and-triggers-e1677098069436.png
description: "Marko Kolombo has contributed this article which provides two solutions to an annoying issue with programmatically installed triggers which unlocks many possibilities."
---

# Apps Script: solutions to the issue “installable triggers failing when created from another trigger function in V8”

![Apps Script: solutions to the issue “installable triggers failing when created from another trigger function in V8”](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2023/02/DALL·E-2023-02-22-20.30.47-picture-which-illustrates-times-alarms-and-triggers-e1677098069436.png)

> There’s a long standing issue with triggers installed programmatically by other triggers, that was kind of fixed last year, but users are still reporting problems, at least in certain locations (Japan, India and others). The issue in short: triggers installed programmatically would not be created, or fail systematically.
> In many cases this affects add-ons (and, to be noted, the issue still persists when testing them, see Testing details); I had a slightly different scenario: a webapp that, when executed (doGet), would install a time based trigger for the user executing the script.

This article provides two solutions to an annoying issue and unlocks many possibilities for programmatically installed triggers.

Source: *[Apps Script: solutions to the issue “installable triggers failing when created from another trigger function in V8”*](https://medium.com/@marcomow/apps-script-solutions-to-the-issue-installable-triggers-failing-when-created-from-another-852e10eff869)

---

*Published by [Marko Kolombo](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/author/markokolombo/) on [Pulse](https://pulse.appsscript.info/). Original article: [https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2023/02/apps-script-solutions-to-the-issue-installable-triggers-failing-when-created-from-another-trigger-function-in-v8/](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2023/02/apps-script-solutions-to-the-issue-installable-triggers-failing-when-created-from-another-trigger-function-in-v8/)*