I’m trying to move images from Airtable to AWS to avoid the issue with URLs expiring from Airtable. I do a search and grab the image, and then use an upload to AWS - but the files aren’t going. I tried using the URL as the data, but that doesn’t work - I notice is the long Airtable Image URLS seem to get truncated causing this to fail. When I try to use the entire image it doesn’t work either. What’s the right way to do this?
Hello @The_FM_Co,
First check the permissions, If the permission is OK.
Then also use URL with in 1. Logo[] instead of only 1. Logo[].
Check it and update back with more details of errors.
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Does the Module Require You to Map File **Data**?
Did you forget to download the file using the file’s link/URL? If it’s not downloaded to the scenario, the next module can’t access the file binary data (contents).
To do this, you can use the HTTP “Get a File” module with the file URL that you need to download. Your file has to be publicly accessible on the internet (doesn’t require authentication).
For more information, see the HTTP page in the Make Help Centre, which covers the following:
- Overview of the HTTP modules
- Make a request
- Make a Basic Auth request
- Make an API key Auth request
- Make an OAuth 2.0 request
- Make a client certificate authentication request
- Get a file
- Resolve a target URL
- Retrieve Headers
- How to generate JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
More Than One File?
If you have an Array of multiple file URLs, you can use an Iterator module, and map the resulting bundle value/URL to the “Get a file” module.
To download multiple files before proceeding to the next module, you can use an Array Aggregator.
Combining Bundles Using Aggregators
Every result (item/record) from trigger/iterator/list/search/match modules will output a bundle. This can result in multiple bundles, which then trigger multiple operations in future modules (one operation per bundle). To “combine” multiple bundles into a single variable, you’ll need to use an aggregator of some sort.
Aggregators are modules that accumulate multiple bundles into one single bundle. An example of a commonly-used aggregator module is the Array aggregator module. The next popular aggregator is the Text Aggregator which is very flexible and can apply to many use-cases like building of JSON, CSV, HTML.
You can find out more about the other types of aggregator modules here:
- Array aggregator
- Text aggregator
- Numeric aggregator
- Table aggregator
- JSON aggregator
- CSV aggregator
- Archive (ZIP) aggregator
- other app-specific aggregators
Mapping a Specific Structure Into a Complex Field
The Array Aggregator module is very powerful because it allows you to build a complex array of collections for a later module’s field to map multiple items (collections) to it.
This is done using the “Target structure type” field in an Array Aggregator module.
Here is an example:
As you can see, the “Map” toggle on complex fields are used when you have an array. You can easily build an array variable to map to a future module’s field, by using an Array Aggregator module and select the “Target Structure Type” as the future module’s field you have mapped the array into.
Example
Here is an example of how your scenario could look:
This is just an example. Your final solution may or may not look like this depending on your requirements and actual input data.
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
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Thank you. Will try to follow all that through!
That worked. Many thanks!
No problem, really glad I could help! Thank you for providing all the requested information — that allowed me to come to a solution quickly.
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Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
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