I have a scenario that parses Gmail attachments via ChatGPT and adds specific data to Airtable.
What is the problem?
It’s been running just fine every Tuesday and Friday, only parsing new emails until now. I just noticed now that it started going back through much older emails at the beginning of this month, using all my credits in the process, and I didn’t change any of the date settings
What have you tried so far?
I tried to change the “start” date to yesterday to make sure it doesn’t go back any further.
This is because you’ve set the “Limit” field of the Gmail “Watch Emails” module to handle too few new emails per scenario run, so there’s a backlog of unprocessed emails that the scenario has to run through.
You can also update to process new items from the Epoch panel.
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.
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.
Hi Sam thanks a lot for your time! First thing when I noticed it was returning “old” results was to change the start to “from now on” but it did keep on retrieving older emails in the following days and has now used all the credits on my account. What I don’t understand is it was working just fine and the volume of emails hasn’t increased so I’m not sure what else I can change to make sure it only picks up the last entries! I’ve changed it again to “from now on” but won’t know if it’s actually working until my credits reset now.
You can purchase credits or subscribe to a plan. Otherwise you will have to select “from now on” again, as from now until your plan reset you’ll have more old mail to process in the “backlog”.
What is your goal?
What is the problem?
What have you tried so far?
