# Why is Polling at make.com is so damn hard?

**URL:** <https://community.make.com/t/why-is-polling-at-make-com-is-so-damn-hard/33669>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** google\
**Created:** [April 12, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/why-is-polling-at-make-com-is-so-damn-hard/33669 "2024-04-12T19:24:16Z")\
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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:** [April 13, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/why-is-polling-at-make-com-is-so-damn-hard/33669/4 "2024-04-13T16:37:01Z")

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Something like this perhaps, you throw an error to break out of the check loop if there is a successful state.

 ![Screenshot_2024-04-14_000409](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/make/original/3X/4/d/4d1ba8988b1b3161bc149ac097f701e9225debcc.png)

Throw error by using `null` in a required field.

![Screenshot_2024-04-14_000448](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/make/original/3X/5/2/52156116006300df2213d36b6bcc923355f1508e.png)

This is where the commit directive comes in useful.

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