Nothing Happens When Running Scenario

What are you trying to achieve?

Lurked for the last couple days and this is my first attempt at a scenario. I’m trying to get vision to sort images in a folder based on color (the provided images are just solid colors for simplicity).

Here is how I want it to work.

Watch file in Google Drive folder > Have Vision analyze image for color > Send to the corresponding subfolder

Steps taken so far

So far I’ve made just one subfolder for red before I branch off with extra folders, but when I run the scenario, the log shows it was executed, but nothing actually changes.

Screenshots: scenario setup, module configuration, errors






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Welcome to the Make community!

Polling Triggers & Empty “Check Runs”

This is because the module is a POLLING trigger, and not an INSTANT (Webhook) trigger.

If you don’t see any bundles from the trigger module and operations on the rest of the modules, it means there are no new responses (empty output bundle) when the scenario ran to check for new items. This is called a “Check run”.

There are two main types of triggers, Polling (scheduled), and Instant (webhooks). Polling triggers can only run on a schedule. Instant triggers can be run as soon as data is received by the webhook.

  • Polling means Make checks external service for changes (pull changes to Make).
  • Webhook (instant) triggers means external service calls Make when there are new changes (push changes to Make).

The module you are using does not push changes — it’s basically a API request that Make has to occasionally “call” to fetch the latest changes/items.

To find out more on the different types of Trigger modules, see refer to Types of Modules and Webhooks sections of the Make Help Centre.

If you want your scenario to only run when there is new data (and not on a schedule or timed interval), see if your app has an “Instant” or “Webhook” trigger in Make. If not, check if the third-party service has a feature that can send out a webhook when content is created/updated - and then you can point it to a “Custom Webhook” trigger in your scenario.

If you want to re-run your scenario on older data,

Polling Triggers: Epoch Panel & Selecting Older Data

Go to the Epoch Panel, by right-clicking on the trigger module (polling triggers only), and select “Choose where to start” from the list of options in the context menu.

If you select “From now on”, the next time the scenario runs it will only return new data (or nothing if there is no new data).

You can also select other old data to re-run your scenario with next using the “Choose manually” option. This will then show you a list of previous historical items you can select to process the next time the scenario is triggered.

For more information, see

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.

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Wow, that was quite the answer. I changed choose where to start to “all”. I can get it to work up until the last module now, then I get a bad request error.

It looks like the cause of the problem I’m getting now is that the Vision AI is not recognizing the different image colors. Probably more of a question for a openai forum at this point.

Either way, thank you for helping me get this far.

Started doing the make academy last night too. Thanks again

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