I’m testing out Make to possibly switch from Zapier, but it’s not going smoothly at the moment. The first scenario I created was a fairly simple one.
In Zapier, when creating a Zap when I add an app I can pull in recent items to test the connection. I don’t see a way to do that on Make other than running the scenario. But if I’m just testing one app to see the results I don’t want to run the scenario. I just want that one app to pull in some data so I can see it. Attached is a screenshot of how that looks on Zapier.
Also, (see 2nd attachment). I ran a scenario to test and it just sat there “spinning”. Literally all night after I went to bed. Why was there no failure or message to let me know what the issue is? It gives me literally no information and I have to force stop it.
And finally (see 3rd and 4th attachment), one Zapier, it pre-fills values for you to select. So in the screenshot examples when I’m adding a tag on your platform, I have to type the tag in. Which means if I don’t know the exact tag, I have to go into Mailchimp and look it up. And if I accidentally type it in wrong on your site, there will be errors. On Zapier, it pre-fills the tags so I just need to select the correct one.
It’s waiting because there’s no data to trigger the scenario. You can fix that by putting information in the spinning module that it would otherwise get from thrivecart.
Also, there is an option to only run a selected module. Just right click on the module and select to run this module only.
You said I can put information in the spinning module… how do I do that? When it’s spinning and I click on it nothing happens.
And you said there is an option to only run a selected module and I just need to “right click” on the module. Since this is a website, if I right click on it I get the browser’s pup up menu that has nothing to do with Make. How do I “right click” on it?
When you call it with a web client (or whatever) it will trigger the webhook but not the rest of the scenario. That will allow yo to see what the webhook receives as input.
You might want to look at the Make academy courses to see what you can do with Make.
This is because the module is an INSTANT (Webhook) trigger, and not a POLLING trigger.
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).
To find out more on the different types of Trigger modules, see refer to Types of Modules and Webhooks sections of the Make help center.
I recommend doing the Make Academy first.
Here are some useful links and guides you can use to learn more on how to use the Make platform, apps, and app modules. I found these useful when I was learning Make, and hope they might benefit you too —
I’m in the same situation re: testing to replace Zapier.
For this, I find that if 1 module depends on data from a prior module, then running just that module is useless – am I missing something? Why doesn’t it retain information? In order to see the test data, it seems I have to rerun the whole scenario every time.
Likewise, I want to sometimes start halfway, like “run scenario FROM HERE” starting at the Nth module.
Was really excited to try make.com, but the “visual builder” is far less intuitive. Zapier is a breeze to start building. What am I missing here? I’d be happy for this to be ‘user error’ and realize that I just haven’t found the right options thus far.
Yeah, the inability to test seems like a really obvious shortcoming to me, too. I was looking to switch but can’t figure out how to get my new scenarios tested properly. Very frustrating because I am usually decent at figuring out this kind of stuff, but like you say, this is far less intuitive than Zapier, despite the fact that it looks more intuitive visually.
