I basically want to use a form to trigger the automation.
Form Webhook → HTTP Request Download File → Upload a Spreadsheet to Google Drive → Somehow get the google sheet id → work with it to fire off some other automations.
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The Google Drive “Upload a file” module should output a File ID when it’s successful.
You can simply map this id variable into a subsequent module.
I would suggest completing the Make Academy before jumping into building a complete scenario. If you need specific assistance when you are building a scenario it’s easier to help you then.
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 —
Learn Make
- Help Centre | Tutorials – Make’s “manual” - search for help here first
- Make Academy – Basics 101: Learn Make properly to get your money’s worth
- Mapping – What is mapping? What can I map?
- Mapping with arrays – How to map items in an array
- Date Format: tokens for
parseDate| tokens forformatDate - HTTP modules – Make a request, Get (download) a file
- Webhooks – Error Handling, Responding to webhooks
How-Tos
- Router Magic Formula - YouTube
- Error Handlers in Make - YouTube playlist
- Aggregate an array for mapping complex fields
- Getting started with OpenAI - How to setup and use OpenAI in Make
- Text Parser module - Use pattern matching to extract the text you want
- Webhooks – Make Academy - tutorial on how to use Webhooks
Useful to Know
How to schedule scenario for first Monday next month (recurring)- How to schedule scenario for the last day next month (recurring)
- How to Extract URL Query Parameters Into Variables
- Overview of Different Web Scraping Techniques in Make
- [Free] Use Groq AI to filter spam emails and form submissions!
Automate Follow-Up of Email Leads a Week After- How to group bundles in X amount of bundles (Chunking Arrays)
Hope this helps! If you are still having trouble, please provide more details.
— @samliew
P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!
Hi @ImAlexStorey ,When you upload a file to Google Drive, it returns a File ID, which serves as your Sheet ID. You can use this ID in the next module to reference the specific sheet.
If you also need to handle subsheets dynamically, you can use the “List Sheets” module and pass the Drive File ID — this will return all the subsheets within that file. In the following step, you can then use both the File ID and Sheet Name to update or search records using the appropriate sheet module.
Thank you.