# Issue Retrieving OpenAI Assistants **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** open-ai\ **Created:** [April 22, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/issue-retrieving-openai-assistants/79720 "2025-04-22T23:47:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b77776/32.png) [@hth](https://community.make.com/u/hth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/issue-retrieving-openai-assistants/79720/1 "2025-04-22T23:47:41Z")
Hi — I’m trying to use the OpenAI “message an assistant” module. When I go to set it up, I’m asked to select an assistant. No assistants show up. I’ve tried creating a new API to see if that fixes the issue but it doesn’t. Any ideas? Here’s a short Loom showing what I’m seeing — [Make & OpenAI issue | Loom](https://www.loom.com/share/216fca2448bc4f27bbe2adc629db9443?sid=890d8f5e-e7e4-43a3-9c64-200f9ea60a19) Any help would be awesome, please. ---
**Author:** ![samliew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.make.com/samliew/32/13327_2.png) [@samliew](https://community.make.com/u/samliew)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/issue-retrieving-openai-assistants/79720/2 "2025-04-23T01:53:33Z")
You’ll need to go to the OpenAI developer platform to create an assistant first before you can view it in that list. Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues. — @samliew ---
**Author:** ![hth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b77776/32.png) [@hth](https://community.make.com/u/hth)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/issue-retrieving-openai-assistants/79720/3 "2025-04-23T23:18:19Z")
Hmm, that’s kind of obvious now you mention it. Turns out I’m dumber than I realised, ha. All sorted now though. Thank you @samliew. ---
**Author:** ![samliew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.make.com/samliew/32/13327_2.png) [@samliew](https://community.make.com/u/samliew)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/issue-retrieving-openai-assistants/79720/4 "2025-04-24T03:15:09Z")
No problem, glad I could help! 1. If anyone has a new question in the future, please **start a new thread**. This makes it easier for others with the same problem to search for the answers to specific questions, and you are more likely to receive help since newer questions are monitored closely. 2. The [Make Community guidelines](https://community.make.com/t/make-community-the-ultimate-topic/11682) encourages users to try to **mark helpful replies as solutions** to help keep the Community organized. This marks the topic as solved, so that: - others can _save time_ when catching up with the latest activity here, and - allows others to _quickly jump to the solution_ if they come across the same problem To do this, simply **click the checkbox** at the bottom of the post that answers your question: ![Screenshot_2023-10-04_161049](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/make/original/3X/5/d/5d9b26fbef0fd7385a34084f61cd5b9165786f42.png) 3. Don’t forget to like and **bookmark** this topic so you can get back to it easily in future! Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues. — @samliew P.S.: Investing some effort into the [Make Academy](https://academy.make.com) will save you lots of time and frustration using Make. ---
**Author:** ![Make\_Bot](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.make.com/make_bot/32/14661_2.png) [@Make\_Bot](https://community.make.com/u/Make_Bot)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 3:27am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/issue-retrieving-openai-assistants/79720/5 "2025-07-23T03:27:31Z")