I am trying to understand if when Make makes the action which is to print from an app, it will occur every time the request is sent. Am i limited by the 5 minute interval? Sorry, basic and simple question from a basic and simple guy
Hi @John_Murray
Trigger modules generate bundles when there has been a change in a given service. The change can be a creation of a new record(s), deletion of a record(s), update of a record(s), etc. Make distinguishes between two types of triggers: Polling triggers and Instant triggers.
Polling triggers are designed to regularly poll a given service whether there has been a change since their previous run. So you will typically schedule a scenario containing a polling trigger module to run periodically by selecting for example At regular intervals option from the Schedule setting panel. If there is a change the trigger will return bundles containing information about the change. If there is no change the trigger will output no bundles.
Instant triggers enable the service to notify Make about the change immediately. You will typically wish to schedule a scenario containing an instant trigger to run immediately by selecting the Immediately option from the Schedule setting panel. See also Webhooks for further details on how the incoming data are handled.
For more details, refer to the below link:
https://www.make.com/en/help/modules/types-of-modules#triggers-935210
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Yes, because the module is a POLLING trigger, and not an INSTANT (Webhook) trigger.
If you don’t see any operations after the trigger module, it means there are no new responses (empty output bundle) when the scenario ran to check for new items. This is called a “Check run”.
There are two main types of triggers, Polling (scheduled), and Instant (webhooks). Polling triggers can only run on a schedule. Instant triggers can be run as soon as data is received by the webhook.
The module you are using does not push changes — it’s basically a API request that Make has to occasionally “call” to fetch the latest changes/items.
To find out more on the different types of Trigger modules, see refer to Types of Modules and Webhooks sections of the Make Help Centre.
If you want your scenario to only run when there is new data (and not on a schedule or timed interval), see if your app has an “Instant” or “Webhook” trigger in Make. If not, check if the third-party service has a feature that can send out a webhook when content is created/updated - and then you can point it to a “Custom Webhook” trigger in your scenario.
If you want to re-run your scenario on older data,
Go to the Epoch Panel, by right-clicking on the trigger module (polling triggers only), and select “Choose where to start” from the list of options in the context menu.
If you select “From now on”, the next time the scenario runs it will only return new data (or nothing if there is no new data).
You can also select other old data to re-run your scenario with next using the “Choose manually” option. This will then show you a list of previous historical items you can select to process the next time the scenario is triggered.
For more information, see
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
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