Thomas Frank’s Latest Video — Issue with “Create page from notion data base” Step


I cannot move on from this step. It is the final step and it will not work. Copied code exactly from Franks website.

Hi @mustafaabuq

First off, welcome to the Pipedream community. Happy to have you!

Glad to hear you’re very close.

That particular error is most likely due to the referenced step not exporting any data at all, or was not tested.

I recommend running each step individually in the workflow builder by using the Test button one at a time in order.

Then you can see which step is not returning any data at all, and hopefully that will give you a clue.

Thank you for the welcome. The issue is I did run every step one at a time and everything is in working order. I am still getting the error. I also tried rebuilding it from scratch just in case. Still same error?

Got it, then the most likely cause is that particular step is expecting another step to provide data.

But the prior step is not returning any data at all.

Could you please share a screenshot of the configuration or the code that the failing step has?

The only step that is failing is the Create_page_from_database step (The notion step) and the error message above is all I’m getting.


All the steps are followed from this website

Hi @mustafaabuq ,

Thanks for the context, but we’ll need to know the actual configuration of the step’s fields above your screenshot.

That configuration might lead to a clue.

OK will do.

Thank you @mustafaabuq that’s exactly what we needed to know.

So it looks like this step depends on the formatter step further up in the workflow.

Can you please share the Exports tab result of the formatter step?

Apolgoies but I do not how to do that can you please walk me through it.

Here’s a screenshot of an example step.

The Exports tab at the bottom of the step shows the exported data from that step.

Please provide a screenshot of the Exports results from your formatter step.

Here’s more information on Step Exports:

yes thank you.
here you go.

Thanks @mustafaabuq but that’s the Exports from you Notion - Create Page step.

We need to inspect the exports from the formatter step that is higher up within the workflow.

The Formatter step is not returning any data.

Thank you @mustafaabuq

That explains it.

Step titles are very important.

Your step that’s actually formatting the text data is currently titled node:

However, your Notion - Create Page step is expecting that step to be named formatter:

That’s why you’re seeing an error.

How to fix

First rename the node step to formatter, then click Test to regenerate the exported data.

In the Exports tab, you should see steps.formatter.$return_value in the results.

Then, test your Notion - Create Page step again, this time it should be able to import the data from the formatter step.

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Thank you so much pierce. You have increased my knowledge tremendously.

Is there a way to integrate audio files longer than 5 minutes. It seems the api is limited.

I was dealing with this as well, but instead of using the workflow for audio/video and deal with conversion from mp4, m4a, aac or anything to a compressed version (mp3) to avoid file size conflict on top of a time limit, see if you can transcribe it ahead of time. Then import your transcription in a docx file to avoid the token limits or using them up quickly.

I believe the limit is set to prevent an account from chewing up too many tokens, but there are probably some creative ways of doing, I think it might be easier to approach via the docx file.