# I need some help with a flow
**URL:** https://community.make.com/t/i-need-some-help-with-a-flow/98784
**Category:** Questions
**Tags:** aggregators
**Created:** [December 13, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/i-need-some-help-with-a-flow/98784 "2025-12-13T09:33:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Jayme\_Nigri](https://community.make.com/u/Jayme_Nigri)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/i-need-some-help-with-a-flow/98784/1 "2025-12-13T09:33:56Z")
### 🎯 What is your goal?
I need to select the 3 best items
### 🤔 What is the problem & what have you tried?
All items are ranked in the 1st part of the flow.
In the 2nd part, I need to select the top 3, but all items need to be held together before the 3 selected items continue in the flow.
The problem is that I can’t hold all the items together, they keep going through one by one.
### đź“‹ Error messages or input/output bundles
The flow works, but wrongly.
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### Author:  [@Stoyan\_Vatov](https://community.make.com/u/Stoyan_Vatov)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 9:50am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/i-need-some-help-with-a-flow/98784/3 "2025-12-13T09:50:53Z")
Hey Jayme,
Use an aggregator to combine the items in an array and then apply sort() to it.
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### Author:  [@samliew](https://community.make.com/u/samliew)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/i-need-some-help-with-a-flow/98784/4 "2025-12-13T13:56:47Z")
> [@Jayme\_Nigri](#):
>
> The problem is that I can’t hold all the items together
Welcome to the Make community!
## Combining Bundles Using Aggregators
Every result/item from some module types (like Trigger / Iterator / List / Search / Match modules) _can potentially and likely_ output more than one bundle. These multiple bundles will individually run subsequent modules **once per bundle** , which is not optimal in most cases:
- [**one operation**](https://help.make.com/operations) per bundle per module, _which could lead to…_
- use of [**multiple credits**](https://help.make.com/credits) per bundle per module (some modules use more than one credit)
> > **View example screenshots**
> >
> > ### Aggregator Example
> >
> > The “Search Rows” module runs one time, returning 999 results (999 bundles).
> >
> > - **Without Aggregator:** the tools module run 999 times (_999 operations_)
> >
> > - **With Aggregator:** the tools module only runs 1 time (_1 operation_)
| ⚠| **Warning:** | 🚨 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| | This can easily use your entire quota of credits if you are not careful or fail to understand this concept. | |
To “combine” multiple bundles into a single variable, so that you can **process all of the items in a single operation** , you’ll need to use an aggregator. [**Aggregators**](https://help.make.com/aggregator) is a type of module that accumulates bundles and outputs one bundle (_unless you are using “Group By”_). An example of a commonly-used aggregator module is the [Array aggregator](https://help.make.com/flow-control#VhcUm) module.
You can find out more about some other aggregator modules here:
- [Array aggregator](https://help.make.com/flow-control#VhcUm)
- [Numeric, Table, Text aggregators](https://help.make.com/util#No4tk)
- [JSON aggregator](https://apps.make.com/json#9jp_N)
- [CSV aggregator](https://apps.make.com/csv#FFOKU)
- [Archive (.zip) aggregator](https://apps.make.com/archive#xJXMy)
- _other app-specific aggregators_
**Question:** Which is the best aggregator do you think you’ll need for your use-case?
For more information, see “[Mapping with arrays](https://help.make.com/mapping-arrays)” in the Help Centre. I also suggest going through the [Make Academy](https://academy.make.com), which also covers the use of [Iterators & Aggregators](https://academy.make.com/courses/IntermediateC01).
— @samliew
P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the [Make Academy](https://academy.make.com) will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!
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### Author:  [@Jayme\_Nigri](https://community.make.com/u/Jayme_Nigri)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/i-need-some-help-with-a-flow/98784/5 "2025-12-13T14:21:21Z")
Thank you Stoyan!
Sort? ok.
How about slice()?
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### Author:  [@Jayme\_Nigri](https://community.make.com/u/Jayme_Nigri)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/i-need-some-help-with-a-flow/98784/6 "2025-12-13T14:22:21Z")
Thank you, Sam!
I’ll dedicate some time to read it all. 👍
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### Author:  [@Prem\_Patel](https://community.make.com/u/Prem_Patel)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2025, 10:26am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/i-need-some-help-with-a-flow/98784/7 "2025-12-14T10:26:13Z")
Slice will help after sort.
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### Author:  [@Make\_Bot](https://community.make.com/u/Make_Bot)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2026, 10:27am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/i-need-some-help-with-a-flow/98784/8 "2026-03-14T10:27:07Z")