How to do "When record matches condition" with Make?

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Hi,I’m looking at migrating some Airtable automations to Make, due to getting close to the 50 limit and seeking some more power.However, I found out that Make doesn’t have a “When record matches condition” trigger for Airtable, which I use quite a lot.What is the recommended workaround for this? Is it to watch for any/specific updates to a record, then use conditional filtering like in Zapier to continue just for those events that match the criteria?Any best practices or tips to share? What modules should I look at employing? Quite new to Make, so any input is much appreciated.Cheers,BjörnPS. I’d very much prefer not to have to create and maintain an Airtable view for this, which seems to be a requirement for at least the “Watch records” module.

TheTimeSavingCo · Answer

PS. I’d very much prefer not to have to create and maintain an Airtable view for this, which seems to be a requirement for at least the “Watch records” module.This is pretty much your only choice I believe. Note that your polling schedule will also count towards your credit usage even if there’s nothing new, and so if you’ve got it set to 15 minutes that’ll cost 2.8k~ish credits a month (might be fuzzy on the math here!)---The other way to trigger things on Make is to hit a webhook, and you can do this either via a Run a Script action in an automation (which defeats the purpose of what you’re trying to do here) or a manual click by the userGenerally you would only use this for stuff you’re comfortable running in the background that doesn’t need a quick response time, and on a paid plan you can reduce the scheduling interval (with commensurate credit usage)Zapier also does scheduled polls while looking at a view but doesn’t charge for them, and so depending on your usage the math might work out for using Zapier instead even though it’s more expensive

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