In the Make Academy, Make Basics → An introduction to aggregators, I’m not clear on what is necessary or just being shown as an example.
Here’s the course material in question:
https://academy.make.com/courses/take/IntermediateC01/multimedia/45805841-unit-4-iterator-and-aggregator-use-cases
In the example, they use List My Contacts which produces 4 bundles.
But then they use an array aggregator, then an iterator which also produces 4 bundles.
Then they update each contact that passes the filter.
So here’s my question, I was able to accomplish the same thing without the aggregator and the iterator, are they really necessary?
Any thoughts on this?
That’s just an example for purposes of the tutorial.
It demonstrates:
- how you can use an array aggregator to combine bundles,
- how you can use an array aggregator to “keep” only the properties that you want (unnecessary, but the option is there if you need to)
- how you can use an iterator to process an array
The example does not demonstrate:
- how to use the Target Module Field of the array aggregator
- how to use the Advanced Settings of the array aggregator
- how to use the Advanced Settings of the iterator
Sure you can do it without both modules, but do you know how they work after this unit?
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
P.S.: Investing some effort into the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make.