Step 10. Schedule your scenario
The final step is to set up how often your scenario should run:
In the Scenario Builder toolbar, click Every 15 minutes to open the schedule settings.
In the Schedule setting window that appears, set how frequently your scenario should run. For this scenario, keep the default "Every 15 minutes" option. This means your Google Sheets module will check for new rows every 15 minutes. You can adjust this based on how quickly you need to be notified about new prospects.
When scheduling a scenario, consider how frequently you need to check for new data, as this affects your operation consumption:
- Running every 5 minutes = 288 operations per day (60/5 × 24), or 8,640 operations per month
- Running every hour = 24 operations per day, or 720 operations per month
- Running once daily = 30 operations per month
These numbers show the operation consumption for the trigger module only. The complete scenario will consume additional operations based on the amount of new data processed and the complexity of the modules in your scenario.
Click Save.
After you schedule your scenario, you'll be prompted to activate it. Click Activate scenario.
If you schedule and activate a scenario only for testing purposes, we recommend deactivating it after or adjusting the schedule to avoid using operations unnecessarily.
Well done! You've created your first scenario in Make. It will now run according to your schedule, monitoring your Google Sheet for new prospects and sending notifications to your Slack channel.
What's next?
You can stop at this step or continue and expand your scenario with the following:
- Add a router to create multiple paths in your workflow.
- Use filters to process data conditionally.
- Implement aggregators to combine multiple items into one.
These features will be covered in the Expand your scenario section.