Efficient Testing for Your Make Automations

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you're building an automation in Make to connect orders from your website to Google Sheets, but you're not getting the result you wanted? You overhaul some things in the scenario and run it again. But then, you're faced with the question: Do you really need to make a new order on the website every time you want to test and re-run after the renovation? Or is there a way to repeatedly run the same call that was already running when you made an order for the first time?

Two Ways to Handle This

There are two other ways to handle this. Let's explore them.

Option 1: Basic Trigger

You can create a “Basic Trigger” that just simulates receiving a certain bundle, and then map this through your scenario. You can drag your actual webhook out of the process while you’re developing. The problem with this is (1) it takes time to build up the structure of the payload you’re going to receive to accurately simulate the webhook being triggered and (2) once you’ve got it working, you’ll need to map all of your subsequent modules back to your webhook.

Option 2: Test Data Scenario

Just create another scenario with only one HTTP module, that sends the payload to the scenario you’re testing. You can then click “Run once” in your Test Data scenario whenever you want to test how your actual scenario will handle the webhook payload.

How to Put the Webhook Payload in the HTTP Module?

In the HTTP module, set the Body type to Raw and the Content type to JSON, and paste in your JSON. If you don’t have an example payload you can drop in, the easiest way to get one is:

  1. Set your webhook to “JSON pass-through”
  2. Run the module one more time, after you’ve set the webhook to pass-though. So you will need to make one last example order on the website
  3. Copy the JSON. The JSON will be delivered in one long string. Just highlight it and copy it.

With these steps, you can easily test and re-run your automation scenarios without having to make a new order on the website every time. Happy automating!

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