Textparser with monday and SMTP email

[Tobias_Schoyen]

Hello! I am new to make.com and have been trying to create items in a Monday board from emails for a good while now.

The emails body text look like this:
"Coach Haugen - Kundeemne

Name
name@gmail.com
12345678"

The first line is the name of the lead, the second line is the email and the last the phone number. They can sometimes add a “+47” which is the Norwegian land code.

The flow

This is the flow. The email is SMTP and I know I got the correct one. However, the issue starts already at the “Text parser” module.

Text parser advanced settings

I found from other posts where they got the name, email and phonenumber with this:

“{s:\d+:“name”;s:\d+:”(?.+?)“;s:\d+:“email”;s:\d+:”(?.+?)“;s:\d+:“phone”;s:\d+:”(?.+?)“;}”

My intention is then to add the name, email and phonenumber in each of the columns in Monday.

However, the only options I get from the text parser is:

I would suspect this is not correct.

[samliew]

You are using the Text Parser Match Pattern (Advanced) module, which outputs differently compared to the non-advanced version.

It doesn’t seem like you need the Advanced module, so why are you using it? Simply switch back to the normal module first, and provide new screenshots of the output if you still need assistance.

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[Tobias_Schoyen]

Ok! Will do! I will give it a shot! Thanks for the advice.

[Tobias_Schoyen]

My guy! You solved it! Thanks! Simple fixes does wonders!

[Tobias_Schoyen]

I’ll keep this thread active until I get an item created in Monday to ensure it works.

[Tobias_Schoyen]

So I almost solved it, but items are still not created.

So this is the updated flow:

Flow

Email module settings
Criteria: All emails
Sender email address: No input
Recipient email address: No input
Subject: “New Message From “clientdomain””
Phrase: No input
Mark message(s) as read when fetched: Yes
Maximum number of results: 20

Text Parser setting
Pattern:
“{s:\d+:“name”;s:\d+:”(?.+?)“;s:\d+:“email”;s:\d+:”(?.+?)“;s:\d+:“phone”;s:\d+:”(?.+?)“;}”

Global match: No
Case sensitive: Yes
Multiline: Yes
Singleline: No
Continue the execution of the route even if the module finds no matches: No
Text: “Text content”

Monday.com settings
Item Name: “15. name” (option from the text parser)
Board ID: Client board selected
Group ID: “New leads”

Array of column values to change:
Item 1
Column ID: Phone
Value
Phone (digits only): “15. phone” (option from the text parser)

Item 2
Column ID: Email
Value
Email: “15. email” (option from the text parser)

Create Labels if Missing: No

What can be the reason for it to not create items? I know the email is correctly connected as it reads my emails and mark them as read.

[samliew]

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[Tobias_Schoyen]

Will do. I will upload it when I get home.

[Tobias_Schoyen]

So the screenshot is the same. Nothing is different.

Scenario blueprint

blueprint.json (11.4 KB)

Input/Output bundles

Input/Output bundles - Email (Watch Emails)

module-1-input-bundle.txt (2 Bytes)
Module-1-Email_Output-bundle .txt (11.6 KB)

Input/Output bundles - Text parser

Module-2-Text-parser_Input-bundle .txt (111 Bytes)
module-1-input-bundle.txt (2 Bytes)

Input/Output bundles - Monday (Create item)

No input or output created.

[samliew]

Your pattern was incorrect:

The correct regex pattern should be

You can use a Text Parser “Match Pattern” module with this Pattern (regular expression):

(?<name>.+)\s+(?<email>.+@.+)\s+(?<phone>[+\d\s]+)

Proof

https://regex101.com/r/KQuR4D

Important Info

• Global match must be set to NO!

Output

---

For more information, see Text Parser in the Make Help Center:

Match Pattern
The Match pattern module enables you to find and extract string elements matching a search pattern from a given text. The search pattern is a regular expression (aka regex or regexp), which is a sequence of characters in which each character is either a metacharacter, having a special meaning, or a regular character that has a literal meaning.

• The complete list of metacharacters can be found on the MDN web docs website.
• For a tutorial on how to create regular expressions, we recommend the RegexOne website.
• For an easy, quick regex generator, try the Regular Expressions generator.
• For experimenting with regular expressions, we recommend the regular expressions 101 website. Just make sure to tick the ECMAScript (JavaScript) FLAVOR in the left panel.

Hope this helps!

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[Tobias_Schoyen]

Thank you very much! I will retry and come up with an update. As always, I appreciate you taking the time to help out!

[Tobias_Schoyen]

After changing the pattern, I got this message from the monday.com module:

“[200] invalid value, please check our API documentation for the correct data structure for this column. Guide to changing column values [ Error Code: ColumnValueException / Error Details: {“column_value”:”{"phone"=>"47301668\n\n", "countryShortName"=>"NO"}“,“column_type”:“PhoneColumn”} ]”

Input data:
[
{
“name”: “Kevin”,
“boardId”: “6338832804”,
“groupId”: “topics”,
“columnValuesToChange”: [
{
“columnId”: “phone__1”,
“columnValue”: {
“phone”: “47301668\n\n”,
“countryShortName”: “NO”
}
},
{
“columnId”: “email”,
“columnValue”: {
“text”: “Kevin.mollerstuen@gmail.com”,
“email”: “Kevin.mollerstuen@gmail.com”
}
}
],
“create_labels_if_missing”: false
}
]

Output data:
[
null
]

[samliew]

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