What is your goal?
I have a scenario successfully set up to check a specific asana project for tasks that have reached a completed status, and recreate those tasks (with only specific content) into a new project. This is for client/account management at my place of employment.
What is the problem?
It seems like this scenario runs the most all through the night, and I wake up to alerts that our usage is reaching it’s limit. I don’t understand why it would run so much through the night when there is no new activity in the Asana account?
What have you tried so far?
I’m new to make.com so I don’t know what to try to adjust the usage and only have it look for activity during certain hours of the day, if that’s possible?
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Hey Rebecca,
You are using a polling trigger that runs on a schedule. Here.
Can you say more @Stoyan_Vatov ? I think that’s the initial “watch tasks” trigger, but where would I adjust when this should run? I don’t see any kind of timing when I open up this trigger and the options within it to customize.
PS - I realize the link you sent says “Click Schedule settings in the scenario toolbar to set how often a trigger module runs” and I’ve opened that up, but I still don’t understand what to actually change here. Everything is mostly just a yes/no toggle in these settings. I don’t see anything about timing in the “advanced” area either.
A polling trigger runs on a set schedule. It will always execute at the specified time, regardless of what is happening on the other end and if there are changes or not. And if there are no changes it will not run the rest of the scenario.
I believe, what you are looking for is an instant trigger. For Asana, this is the Watch Webhook Events module.
Ok, so clarifying my understanding of how Make.com works… Because I currently have this set to rune very 3 mins (see screenshot), it of course always does that. But it’s still using a credit each time, even when there are no changes? It would be more credits for usage if the rest of the scenario ran?
Thank you for your help!
Yes, for the most part, every time a module runs it consumes a credit regardless of its output. There are a handful of exceptions, but I believe they are all labeled as such.
When a change actually occurs, each of the other 2 modules will run for each changed item that the first module found. So the scenario will consume 3 credits if there is one change, or 5 if there are 2 changes and so on.
A better flow would be to switch to a webhook module as the trigger, since that one is instant and will only run when a change actually happens. Then each time a change happens, the scenario will consume 3 credits. But it will not run all day and all night every 3 minutes checking if a change occurred or not.
This is VERY helpful. Thank you so much (I’ll wait until we are done with a big asana project to make this change, just so I don’t break anything mid-project).
