How To Handle Errors In Make.com (No Fluff Error Handling)

[@nicksaraev]

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[@LindseyRuan]

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[@belou2361]

Hey Nick! Thanks for continuing to put out good quality content. If you could maybe show a video addressing loops in Make, that'd be great. For loops are quite possible, but While loops I've been struggling with. I have scenarios calling other scenarios via webhooks with the child scenarios calling back the parent scenarios to simulate while looping, but it's clunky and not easy to monitor and debug.

[@nicksaraev]

Thanks so much Boris! I understand the motivation in wanting to recreate While loops, but tbh Make just isn't set up for it and I think trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole is poor ROI. Make.com design patterns are basically: webhook listeners, linear flow. Webhooks chese conceptually perform a similar role to While loops without the need for operationally expensive workarounds, so I'd recommend keeping your scenarios as simple as possible to increase maintainability. If you really need this functionality, I'd suggest using the "Custom JS" module and writing a script to handle whatever function you need your loop to do. Then treat that module as a black box and just pass i/o to or from it. You'll need an API key but it's probably much cheaper than what you're spending on ops. Hope this helps man 🙏

[@Padariz]

Hey Nick, you inspired me at 50(not techy) to jump into Make. I enrolled in the Academy and I'm on "expanding scenario". Getting foundation/basics down first! Soon I'll be following along with your video tutorials and making a Money "FLOW" to Flow my way! Thanks for the info!

[@nicksaraev]

Paul: really appreciate the comment and your time 🙏 I have full faith you're going to crush it! Keep me posted on your progress man.

[@tshiamotawele]

I love your content Nick, keep it up. Soon I am going to binge watch it from the beginning.

[@romanescuder9038]

Loving your content, I'll be tuned for a while

[@nicksaraev]

Thank you Roman!

[@blogger112233445]

Thanks Nick! Nice vid. Is there a way to do an error handler module for an entire branch or multiple modules? Example, if an error on any of these 10 modules I select, then stop the automation and send an email? I don't want to create an error handler for each and every single module when I have 20 modules in 1 one branch, and I have 10 different branches. Thanks!

[@SEEMABARBA-i5p]

A fantastic video Nick. Thank you for sharing.

[@AITrendsExpert-in9qj]

I have job envy! I am fairly new but love learning and love your videos. Keep them coming because I love them. Also if you do site audits, let me know! 🤑

[@PriitKallas]

Great video! Thanks

[@sharadkapoor1588]

Another great video, my friend

[@nicksaraev]

Thank you Sharad! Cheers man.

[@bpet2237]

Why don’t you like using routers?

[@nicksaraev]

Most uses of routers aren't necessary and can be replaced with a switch module instead, which is more maintainable and scalable. I.e instead of three routes to handle some input, a switch lets you do it in one by defining input:output pairs. Much easier to work on since you only ever have to debug or change one route!

[@powerfulLVE]

obrigado!

[@chrislaishowcase]

MAKE is so frustrating to use. Always have errors here and there, not worth the time. Sometimes it works then suddenly it doesnt which is ridiculous.

[@ExitStrategyNYC]

This feels like a pretty limited and not useful video :/ only helps deal with rate limiting errors where the fix is simply adding a delay :-/

[@nicksaraev]

Agreed, one of my first. Will create a new, more comprehensive one soon.

[@ExitStrategyNYC]

@@nicksaraev among other things, I’d be curious to learn if error handlers are ever a core part of a “happy path” flow (for example rather than doing an explicit check to see if a user already has an account, just to try to create that account and then catch the failure if the database row write isn’t unique)