I am trying to build a workflow in make.com that daily reviews my email newsletters and shares a podcast with most important news. The issue I’m having is that it’s not actually pulling my email newsletters and just makes the content up. I’ve tried putting the email addresses in the Gmail > Search Email > “Sender Email Address” field with “OR” in between the email addresses, but it returns “0” bundles when I run the workflow. What’s the issue?
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Hello, here is the public preview link: https://us2.make.com/public/shared-scenario/sY43VRNlvW5/integration-gmail-open-ai-chat-gpt-sora. I am now able to get it to actually read my newsletters and develop accurate podcasts, but instead of giving me a summary podcast, it gives me 10 different podcasts, one for each newsletter. It looks like the aggregator logic is not working. What’s the issue?
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The “Search” module already returns each item in BUNDLES, not a single ARRAY. Hence, you do not need an Iterator, and can simply delete the Iterator module.
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:
- Array aggregator
- Text aggregator
- Numeric aggregator
- Table aggregator
- JSON aggregator
- CSV aggregator
- Archive (ZIP) aggregator
- other app-specific aggregators
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.
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Question: Are you mapping your array into a field that accepts more than one item/collection?
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.
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