How to implement and use the Make DevTool

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Hey Makers :wave:

Today, we want to introduce you to our amazing Make DevTool! Keep reading to find out how you can leverage in your scenarios. :make:

Introduction

What is the Make DevTool?

A powerful set of tools used to debug scenarios and perform actions you couldn’t do directly in the Scenario builder. It provides the following main features:

  • Live API calls monitoring.
  • Debugging of previous executions.
  • Miscellaneous tools for mapping, filtering, replacing, finding, etc.

Why use Make DevTool?

  • If you need to see what happens behind the scenes when a Scenario executes the Make DevTool allows anyone to see the details of all calls made to third-party APIs.
  • If you need to perform actions not provided by default (copy a filter, change all mappings at once, search a module, …)

Who is Make DevTool perfect for?

  • Technical users who understand HTTP and API calls
  • IT Team

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Installing and running the Make DevTool

Install the Make Dev tool

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Debugging scenario

Scenario Live Stream

Used to visualize all API requests/responses when executing the scenario live (Run Once).

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Scenario debugger

Used to view details about previous executions, organized by modules/operations.

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Tools

Finding Modules

These two tools allow you to search modules based on keywords, and focus on a specific module by its ID.



Get Metadata about an App

Gives you all relevant information about the App the module belongs to (name, label, version, etc)



Copy Mapping

Copies all mapped fields from a module to another one. Particularly useful if you want to copy mappings without cloning a module.

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Copy a filter

Allows you to copy a filter from one link to another. Very useful to move a filter when we added a module.



Swap Connections

Changes a connection for all modules of the same App in the whole scenario.

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Swap Variable

Changes a specific variable to another one in a module of the whole scenario.

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Swap App

Swaps a specific App to another one. Useful when you worked on a custom app and want to switch to the compiled version.



Copy the name of a module to clipboard.

Copies to the clipboard the name of a module.



Remap Source

Replaces the id of a module in mappings with a new one. Very useful if you need to change a module for which output bundle is used in many places.

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Get Blueprint size

Returns the size of the current scenario and modules.



Miscellaneous tools

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