How do I reference a field that's not in my sample data?

[Ali_Ryder]

What is your goal?

I am pulling data from Google Calendars and I want to exclude certain types of events. For example, if an event is created via Motion, or via my scheduling calendar, or via some other mechanism.

What is the problem?

When I get a sample event, it is only one type of event. For example, it was created by Motion OR it was created by my scheduling app OR it was manually created. I can’t set up a filter to exclude events based on a property that isn’t present in my sample event.

What have you tried so far?

I tried creating a filter that excludes one type of event. I tried adding a second condition, but I need to reference a field that is not in my sample data. I tried typing it out like 1.extendedProperties.shared.motionUserId in the same way that it appears that fields are recognized, but I don’t know how to get Make to know it’s a field. In other words, how do I manually enter an instruction to look for a field that’s not in my sample data?

Screenshots: scenario setup, module configuration, errors

[Henk-Operative]

Hi @Ali_Ryder,

What you need is abstract referencing in the Make Syntax. You can do this by using the curly brackets:
{{1.value}}

Where:
1 is the number of the Module*
value is the key that you reference. You can use dot notation, if a key contains spaces, you can use backticks ``

Cheers,
Henk

[Ali_Ryder]

Haha that worked! Thanks so much!!!

[Marina]

Thanks for taking a moment to come back here and let us know that it worked, @Ali_Ryder! Always very useful for the community