Bug: Google Sheets -> Aggregator -> ChatGPT

I’m building a scenario where:

  1. I pull 5 leads from a Google Sheet using Search Rows.
  2. I use Array Aggregator to format these leads into a list and send them to OpenAI ChatGPT for scoring.
  3. The ChatGPT prompt expects keys like username, bio, followers, etc.

:cross_mark: The issue:
Even though the output from Array Aggregator seems to be correct (see screenshot).

When I pass that array to Chatgpt (see screenshot too) and then I check the prompt that ChatGPT received it received the array with Numbers instead of Actual Keys like ‘username’, ‘fullName’ etc:

## Here is the list: {"4":"514ca","6":"ッ","8":"","9":"FALSE","12":"","13":"","15":"40037","17":"Music is louder than the explanations 😒"}, {"4":"adam_m._1","6":"Adam🥷🏼","8":"14100\n🥊kickbox","9":"FALSE","12":"","13":"","15":"115","17":"Ronaldo I put it as a story"}

And it has trouble understanding what is what. I want chatgpt to understand where exactly in the array there is the Username or the BIO of the user.

Can you help please?



Hey there,

thats because the names are being pulled from the header of the google sheet. I suggest Aggregate to JSON instead of the array aggregator so you can build it with the key-value pairs that you want.

Welcome to the Make community!

Looks like you should be using a Text Aggregator instead.

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:

Question: Which is the best aggregator do you think you’ll need for your use-case?

Mapping a Specific Structure Into a Complex Field

If you have an array of collections, in programming terms, this is called an array of objects, or an array with non-primitive data types (“complex”).

The Array Aggregator module is very powerful because it allows you to build a new complex array of collections that matches a later module’s field to map multiple items (collections) to it. Such fields initially would allow you to manually add items, but you can toggle the “Map” switch to the “on” state and map a whole array into a single field.

This is done by selecting the “Target structure type” in an Array Aggregator module.

As you can see from the above example, the “Map” toggle on complex fields are used when you have an array variable (like from an array aggregator). Other combinations of modules may also allow you to generate an array that matches a future field’s array structure, like “Aggregate to JSON + Parse JSON”, or “Create JSON + Parse JSON”, but this is an advanced topic.

Question: Are you mapping your array into a field that accepts more than one item/collection?

Example

Here is an example of how your scenario could look like:
Screenshot 2025-05-22 194703

This is just an example. Your final solution may or may not look like this depending on your requirements and actual data.

For more information, see “Mapping with arrays” in the Help Centre. You should also do the Make Academy, which also covers the use of Iterators & Aggregators.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues. P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!

@samliew