2 loops/iterations inside Make.com

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I have a very important issue. I want to create two iterations within Make.com that go through two columns of a Google Sheet.

In column A (A2, A3, etc.), I have industries (Machinery, IT SaaS, Automobile, etc.) from various sectors. In column B, I have departments (Sales, AfterSales, Marketing, etc.). The problem was that I couldn’t iterate over the columns directly because they were listed as separate elements, so I used a helper table that transposed the columns so I could iterate through them.

Now, the issue lies in the “Update a Cell” module. I want to dynamically specify the cell where the values should be written (at this stage, just the value “TEST,” which will later be replaced by the Perplexity API answer). Getting the row value is easy, but I am unable to dynamically generate the column letters B to P for the inner loop. It should write the values in B2, C2, …, P2. In the next iteration of the outer loop, it should write in B3, C3, etc.

I hope this is clear. Thank you in advance.

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blueprint (3).json (24.9 KB)

Now as you can see in the screenshot the main problem lies around getting the “B” to “P” as column value dynamically. The rest certainly is not efficient but works.

chronologically the output bundles are:

First iterator (outer loop):
[
{
“value”: "Accounting ",
“IMTINDEX”: 1,
“IMTLENGTH”: 1
}
]

Second iterator (inner loop):
[
{
“value”: “Sales”,
“IMTINDEX”: 1,
“IMTLENGTH”: 1
}
]

SET VARIABLE ITERATION START:
[
{
“iteration_start”: 1
}
]

SET VARIABLE ITERATION COUNT:

[
{
“iteration_count”: 2
}
]

SET VARIABLE COLUMN (Which I tried different things all didn’t work):

[
{
“Column”: “NaN2) - 1, 15))”
}
]