Running a module at the end of the run of a scenario or of another module

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Hi there,

I’m trying to find emails in a folder, and if criteria match (one of them is “unread”), do something. If criteria don’t match, mark as read.
The issue with this is that emails that don’t match, can’t get marked as read because they are essentially ignored. So I tried to use another module that just looks at unread emails and marks them all as read. The issue is that I need this to run once, and ideally at the end of the scenario because otherwise, it marks all emails as read and the scenario no longer works as all subsequent emails in that folder are now marked as read.

So the best way to solve this would be to run this module once only, and once the other email search module has run its course (currently 70 searches or so but it may vary), oronce the entire scenario has completed, as a last action that happens regardless of anything else.

Is there a way to achieve this?
Thanks!

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Welcome to the Make community!

You could immediately mark them all as read first instead at the end of the scenario.

Alternatively, you should create filters in Gmail and move them to specific labels which you monitor.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

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Hi @samliew, thank you for your help.
Unfortunately, I don’t think your proposed solutions would help in that instance.
As per my message, the filter includes that the email is unread. So marking the emails as read first would just ensure that all emails are ignored.
Regarding your second suggestion, I do not see how this would be any different than marking them as read, because the issue is not the action that I want to take, it is the fact that if an email does not get picked up by the filter, then the module returns an empty output.

Blueprint attached
blueprint.json (28.8 KB)

Thanks,
Arnaud