What are you trying to achieve?
Hi Makers, I’m new here, and hopefully someone can point out the obvious glaring gap in my knowledge (that I have searched extensively for an answer to).
I’m trying to pass a downloaded file from Onedrive to the OpenAI upload file module:
The file is successfully downloaded, and I can see the file name and data fields are nicely populated, now to move that to the OpenAI module.
But when I use the field names dragged across into the OpenAI module, and when I run that module on its own, I get a “required parameter is empty” error.
I feel like I’m missing something really obvious. But I’ve tried this with Google Drive, OneDrive, and also various other module pairings where I’ve watched instructional videos showing this funcationality working, that I’m beginning to think it’s my browser, or the fact that I’m on a trial subscription or something else that’s blocking this particular functionality from working.
More likely is that I’m making an error, though. So please can you point it out to me if you know?
Thanks in advance.
Steps taken so far
Searched community for similar error, but most other posts are specific to the data bundle or the module they are using.
Watched a bunch of youtubes.
Remade the scenerio from scratch a bunch of times.
Tried a few different module combinations but get the same ‘empty value in required parameter’
Screenshots: scenario setup, module configuration, errors
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Thanks for your response. I have started working through the academy as well. I hadn’t seen that initially and it looks like a great resource.
I also had a support request open for this particular issue and Alejandra from the support team said:
“I checked your scenario, and the main issue is that sometimes it might be confusing to use the option of running a module only. If that particular module has mapped values from other modules, this one won’t fetch such value’s data, giving you the following errors because there are no mapped values to begin with, let’s say.”
I think he may have hit the nail on the head, running each module on its own doesn’t necessarily pull the data from the previous module. i.e. if you run module 1 and it’s output is correct and THEN you run module 2 expecting the values from module 1 to pull across, you might be disappointed.
If you run the whole scenario it does actually work.
I think this might be the fundamental misunderstanding I was having. I’ll test it with a few of the other scenarios I was having trouble with and see if this is the final answer.
Yes, most of the time you’ll need to run the full scenario.
Here are some useful links and guides you can use to learn more on how to use the Make platform, apps, and app modules. I found these useful when I was learning Make, and hope they might benefit you too —
Getting Started
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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.
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