Key concepts
Scenarios & connections

Active and inactive scenarios

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There are two ways you can work with in Make. Depending on how you want to use your , you will either activate or inactivate it.

  • Active run periodically according to their defined schedule.
  • Inactive are executed once and whenever you wish to run them.

You may change between the two statuses whenever you like (active can become inactive and vice versa).

When to activate or deactivate

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There are specific purposes for activating your as well as other reasons for making your inactive.

Using the example of connecting Instagram to Dropbox, you want to activate your when you are wanting to consistently watch your account on a long-term basis. In this case, whenever you add a photo, it will automatically upload this photo to Dropbox. It will do so according to its schedule.

On the other hand, the inactive is great for when you simply want to select photos from a specific time interval. Clicking the Run once icon in the toolbar will start a one-time execution of the .

Activating scenarios

A newly created scenario is, by default, inactive. You can activate it by clicking the ON/OFF button in the scenario details page.