Grouping input from Excel in batches of 10 (Aggregator Question?)

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Hi there,

after countless Yt videos und Tut’s for 1,5. days i’ve been trying to solve this without luck.
It’s actually simple:

  1. I have an Excel sheet with several columns in each row. I retrieve this with “list worksheet rows” and have 100 rows. all good.
  2. I would now want batches of 10 rows (with all column-content individually mapped) to than hand over to openAI
  3. openAi to complete a prompt and write the results for each 10 rows of the batch into antoher excel (add row)

I have tryed creating and parsing JSON, iterator and aggregator as well as data storage. But i can not for the live of me, get make.com to create batches of 10 rows - so 100 rows = 10 batches each with 10 rows each containing multiple columns of content!

I’d be gratefull for an example of how this works and is set up the right way. or a link to a YT film where this is done.

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What you are asking for is also known as “chunking”.

See A Better Solution for "How to group bundles in X amount of bundles"

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

— @samliew

P.S.: Did you know, the concepts of about 70% of questions asked on this forum are already covered in the Make Academy. Investing some effort into it will save you lots of time and frustration using Make later!

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@samliew Ah - this indeed sounds like one step towards my solution! Your tutorial shines a light on the chunking with a repeater. But i am missing how to set this up from step1 to finish … so can’t follow completely. Sorry - i am a complete novice in this, but trying … :slight_smile:

Would you be able to help me with the set up including the excel output to iterator to repeater and to aggregator over to openAi and saving into excel again? i can not seem to be able to map this correctly and get it to work …
The chunking is one of the biggest issues in this i have, but also properly mapping all data / content

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This is so kind of you! Thank you so much.

In fact … your tutorial got me thinkng how you calculation looks completely different then mine in the “group by” field … as a result i noted that i was not “clicking together” the math operators in make, but writing the code into the field. As a result it was not parsed correctly. If I “click together” from the context window in make, my scenario works!!

To find this out has costed me 2 days … but in the end your screen shot brought me to the solution! Maybe not as intended: But a solution after all.

:pray:

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