Quick question: I am working on an fairly complex automation that requires many steps and since it also requires a lot of human checks, interactions, and tweaking of the output I have broken it down in several steps that I launch individually when the previous step is done.
Also this is a work in progress, meaning I could come with more steps to add in the future, or change them, depending on what I need to do.
Thing is at some point I have to recall modules / files from different steps in the automation, but they are not linked to the current step, meaning I can’t map them.
Is there a way to do that?
The way I see it I have several options:
I keep everything as is it (but it’s getting really messy and long)
I join several steps in the automation (or create a big one) so I can map the steps I need but I need a way to pause the automation where the human checks are needed and resume it when changes are done (I don’t know how to do that)
Use sub scenarios; I never used them, and before learning them, I would like to know if that’s what I really need
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You need to go back to the architecture design and plan a system where necessary modules (ones that need to be reused) are separate scenarios so they can be reused at various steps and connect everything using webhooks or call subscenario.
Unfortunately, the Human in the loop native module is Enterprise-only (hope that will change!).
For this kind of project I strongly recommend using Airtable or another user-friendly system that acts as UI to trigger next steps from a centralized panel.
Stoyan here attached you can find an image of (part of) my scenario and, as you can see it has quite a few steps, so for example I would like to recall a Google Docs I created in another step in another route.
In the current setup I have to manually call the files I need or delete or eliminate files, depending on the case, for the following run.
It’s a mess.
I didn’t even know the Magic Formula existed! I’ll give it a shot
Samliew I checked and, as Michał said it looks like the Human in the loop thing is an enterprise perk for now. Hope they will release it to the general public soon.
Michał thanks for your suggestions! I will check the webhooks and the subscenarios then and see what fits best to my case.
None of these seem to be connected though, what is this scenario supposed to be doing? Cause most of the modules in the screenshot wont execute when you run it.
It’s an automation that speeds up the creation of blog posts and since there are many steps involved, each steps has its own scenario.
So for example the first one is for the outline creation, the second one is for the consolidation of all the ideas I gathered in the previous step, plus my human input, the third is the writing of each section of the article, based on the output of the previous modules and so on.
I always start from the output of a previous module, so that’s why I was asking my original question.
It does work, but it’s very very messy as I have to constantly refer back to the output of a previous module and since I cannot map it I have to update everything manually, which defeat the purpose of an automation, and it’s very error prone.
Yeah that’s not how you are supposed to be using Make.
Once a scenario is setup, you switch it on and don’t touch it, then it executes on its own.
Human input is done elsewhere - a CRM platform, Google sheets, WhatsApp chat bot and many more, depending on your flow.
You don’t start/stop the scenario yourself, you don’t add human input inside the scenario directly and you don’t transfer the data manually. All of that is done automatically.
Judging by your explanation, it sounds like those need to be several separate scenarios and you need an external tool to see results and provide inputs.
Hi Stoyan, no no sorry maybe I wasn’t clear enough.
My human interaction is done on the actual output (usually Google sheet or Google Docs) and I don’t stop the automation half through the job. That would be even more time consuming. I was looking for a way to have less steps in the process, and I am reviewing your suggestions now
What is your goal?
What is the problem & what have you tried?
Are you running the modules one by one or editing the scenario to connect different routes and execute them?