# Set variable producing empty collections

**URL:** https://community.make.com/t/set-variable-producing-empty-collections/70901
**Category:** Questions
**Tags:** mapping
**Created:** [February 21, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/set-variable-producing-empty-collections/70901 "2025-02-21T23:14:08Z")
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### Author: ![samliew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.make.com/samliew/32/13327_2.png) [@samliew](https://community.make.com/u/samliew)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2025, 8:43am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/set-variable-producing-empty-collections/70901/6 "2025-02-23T08:43:51Z")

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> [@dylanthered](#):
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> - Why did you suggest a solution starting and ending with {{ }}?

That’s how Make IML are represented when copied out from the module fields. Try it yourself.

> [@dylanthered](#):
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> - How come when I copied and pasted your solution Make automatically removed {{}} as well as the quotations? But it still worked.

So when you paste it back in, the IML is converted back to how you are used to it.

For more information, see [Autocomplete Commonly-Used Functions in IML (Mapping) Fields!](https://community.make.com/t/autocomplete-commonly-used-functions-in-iml-mapping-fields/64748)

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

— @samliew

P.S.: Investing some effort into the [Make Academy](https://academy.make.com) will save you lots of time and frustration using Make.

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