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From your screenshot/output bundle, it appears that you have an ARRAY of items. What do you do when you have an array?
“Looping” Through Array Items
When you SEE an array in your module’s output, think of using an Iterator module.
In this example, responses is an array of items (collections). You’ll want to map this array in an Iterator module.
Question: Have you tried mapping your array variable into an Iterator module, ran the scenario, and view the output?
Next,
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 type of aggregator do you think you’ll need?
Mapping a Specific Structure Into a Complex Field
The Array Aggregator module is very powerful because it allows you to build a complex array of collections for a later module’s field to map multiple items (collections) to it.
This is done using the “Target structure type” field in an Array Aggregator module.
Here is an example:
As you can see, the “Map” toggle on complex fields are used when you have an array. You can easily build an array variable to map to a future module’s field, by using an Array Aggregator module and select the “Target Structure Type” as the future module’s field you have mapped the array into.
Question: Are you mapping your array into a field that accepts more than one “item”?
Example
Here is an example of how your scenario could look:
This is just an example. Your final solution may or may not look like this depending on your requirements and actual input data.
For more information, see the “Mapping with arrays” link below. You should also do the Make Academy, which also covers the use of Iterators & Aggregators.
Getting Started
- Help Centre | Tutorials – Make “Manual” - search for help here first
- Make Academy – Basics 101: Learn Make properly to get your money’s worth
Help Centre Basics
- Mapping – What is mapping? What can I map?
- Mapping with arrays – How to map items in an array
- Aggregate an array for mapping complex fields
- Date Format: tokens for
parseDate
| tokens forformatDate
- HTTP modules – Make a request, Get (download) a file
- Webhooks – Error Handling, Responding to webhooks
Articles & Videos
- Router Magic Formula - YouTube
- Error Handlers in Make - YouTube playlist
- Getting started with OpenAI - How to setup and use OpenAI (ChatGPT) in Make
- Text Parser module - Use pattern matching to extract the text you want
- Webhooks – Make Academy – tutorial on how to use Webhooks
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.