Introducing Dynamic Connections in Make
Today, we’re thrilled to unveil our latest capability on Make: Dynamic Connections. This launch marks a significant leap forward in addressing a number of key challenges our advanced users have faced in the past. Let's delve into the problems that we’re solving with this new capability as well as what you can look forward to building with the help of Dynamic Connections.
Overcoming manual struggles in scenario design
Previously, our users encountered a cumbersome process when designing core workflows with defined connections. Imagine a scenario with multiple modules — each of which are tied to different applications or connections — and every connection has been meticulously identified by the scenario designer.
The pain points were evident:
Limited functionality with connections: Designing a scenario for a sandbox and later transitioning to a production instance proved to be cumbersome. Manual interventions and incoherent steps were required, which led to an array of inefficiencies.
Version management issues: Creating scenarios initiated by various users with personalized connections (for example, sending emails from their Google account) resulted in the creation and management of numerous versions. Over time, this task became complex and nearly impossible to manage.
Make’s solution for advanced scenario designers
Enter Dynamic Connections, a transformative capability reshaping how you set up modules. Instead of fixing a specific connection during design, you can now opt for a dynamic connection, which is chosen during scenario execution.
Here’s what’s possible when using Dynamic Connections:
Dynamic connection: Design your scenarios dynamically and watch them easily adapt to context changes. You can run scenarios with both non-production and production connections effortlessly.
Build-time connection: Empowers scenario designers to configure modules based on connections to third-party instances, such as displaying custom fields available in Salesforce.
Run once with dynamic connections: You can choose connections during scenario execution within the designer, facilitating quick connection changes and troubleshooting.
Execute via API with dynamic connections: Create scenarios executable via the API with diverse user connections.
This capability primarily caters to advanced Make users who are well-versed in automation maturity, especially those familiar with lifecycle management and varied environments. Currently, Dynamic Connections is available in Make’s Enterprise plan.
By rolling out Dynamic Connections, we aim to help our users feel empowered and informed while using Make. Your feedback is extremely useful to us — with this in mind, we’d love for you to try out Dynamic Connections and let us know your thoughts about the capability.
How to get started with Dynamic Connections
If you’re already a Make user on the Enterprise Plan, log in to your account and use Dynamic Connections to create scenarios that can be executed via the API with different user connections.
New to Make? You can get in touch with one of our team’s account executives to learn more about how Make can support your business objectives.
There’s documentation on Dynamic Connections available if you need support. We hope this advanced functionality will help you do even more with Make, and as always, we look forward to seeing what you create.
Authors: Ondrej Vesely and Dan Etheridge
