Beginner questions on number of operations relating to workflow with CSV manipulation

[to11433]

Hi, I just wanted a second opinion to make sure I’m understanding things correctly and not missing something obvious. I’m new here, but have some automations on another platform where I didn’t have to worry about the number of operations which made life a bit easier!

One workflow I’m trying to replicate to get some basic understanding is:

1. Retrieve an employee list via an API call which outputs the info as csv. c. 200 staff with c. 4 columns of data.
2. Manipulate the data (adjust names of headers + add in 3 extra columns, 2 having static data and the third having a specific bit of text depending on the email address returned from the csv file.
3. Send the data to a second system via the API.

I have all my connections working so that’s fine. I was just wondering about the most efficient way to do this in terms of minimizing operations used.

My first task uses 1 operation.
I then have a csv parser which uses 1 operation.
I then have a ‘set multiple variables’ which uses 200 operations.
I think I then would need to use an aggregator/csv file creator to push everything back together again which should use 1 operation?!
And then one operation to send the data?

Is my thinking along the right track here? Is there a more efficient way of doing this?

Thanks!
Daniel

[samliew]

Welcome to the Make community!

That seems as efficient as you can do it on Make.

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