Counting Strings from Google Sheet

[business.mwjs]

Hey Guys,

I am currently having issues trying to count the amount of times a string is mentioned in an array of data.

I have a spreadsheet, and I am using a ‘Search Rows’ node to pull all rows that have the ‘Status’ column set to ‘Available’.

This then provides me an array with 5 rows of data. 3 of these rows are for a ‘Standard’ booking, and 2 of them are for a ‘VIP booking’.

What I need to figure out is how to then take this, and save how many 'Standard’s were collected as available, and how many 'VIP’s were collected as available as two separate variables to send back to a voiceflow workflow.

Most topics I found said to use an array aggregator to make this into an array, which is then somehow manipulated, but I can only find formulas that are able to count integers, not the amount of times either string (Standard or VIP) are retrieved.

Would anyone know how to finish this off?

[samliew]

Welcome to the Make community!

An array aggregator is correct. You just need to expand the “Advanced Settings” and insert the variable for column D into the “Group by” field as well.

e.g.:

Then, you can get the length of each type.

To do this, you can use the built-in function length —

{{ length(array) }}

For more information, the function’s documentation can be found in the Help Centre. You should also complete the tutorials in the Make Academy.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

P.S.: Investing some effort into the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make.

[business.mwjs]

Hey!

Thanks for that, got me through to my next step which is webhook response. These aren’t saving as separate variables? I need to return both “Standard” and “VIP” separately. What have I done wrong?

Not sure if I’m missing something really simple or not, sorry if it is haha

[business.mwjs]

Hey,

I still can’t figure this one out days later if anyone has any ideas…

Would really appreciate

[samliew]

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