What do I put in Gmail Module for "body contents" coming from a google sheet?

[Christine_Giraud]

What is your goal?

I’d like to send data from a Google Sheet to my Gmail.

What is the problem?

My scenario runs and an email is sent, but it is empty.

What have you tried so far?

I think it must be a problem with the body contents, but I put in the parameters every which way and no way works. Ideas? If relevant, the data in the Google sheet is coming from a weather app, but that earlier part of the scenario works fine. Thanks!

Screenshots: scenario setup, module configuration, errors

[Stoyan_Vatov]

Hey Christine,

What is the output of the Google sheets module and what are you trying to send?

[Christine_Giraud]

The google sheet spits out weather data from a weather app. It’s text.

[Stoyan_Vatov]

Can you show a screenshot of the output?

[Christine_Giraud]

[Stoyan_Vatov]

Thats the configuration of a module that adds rows to a sheet. If you want the same sent over an email, just map the same variables.

[Christine_Giraud]

So Sunrise, Temperature, Status and Description? I replaced what was in there in the Gmail module with those variables (since they were in the google sheet module) and it didn’t work.

[Christine_Giraud]

Do you have any other ideas? Appreciate the help!

[Jide_Nubi]

Hi Christine,
I think it’s best you use the “Raw HTML” option for the body type and then map ass you wish to the “Content” box. You can then use HTML tags for line breaks for your desired output for the body of the mail - see below.

Let me know if that works for you.

[Christine_Giraud]

Thanks, I tried this and it didn’t work, unfortunately.

[Christine_Giraud]

I didn’t change anything in the google sheet module. Maybe I should? If so, what do you recommend?

[Stoyan_Vatov]

That error shows it was expecting an attachment that wasnt there.

[Karmic]

Remove anything mapped in the attachments field and run the module again with plain content only.

Then check the run output and see if it succeeds.

From there, you can isolate whether the issue is caused by the attachment mapping or something else in the module.

[Christine_Giraud]

I asked Claude and got my answer. The HTML it gave me to put in the “contents” window is

Sunrise: {{1.sunrise}}

Temperature: {{1.temperature}}

Status: {{1.name}}

Description: {{1.description}}

I don’t know how a non-coder is supposed to know that. The myth of “you don’t even need to code” that these apps like to shout is a joke. Seriously though, thanks all for your help!

[Christine_Giraud]

Wow! Did you actually just call me impatient and lazy? Please do me a favor and don’t respond to my future posts. And for what it’s worth, your suggestion to me was very lazy and irrelevant. You suggested I delete attachments, but I didn’t have anything in that section of the module.

[samliew]

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