One of our Pickaxe community Experts @ab2308 made the ULTIMATE Pickaxe/Make.com tutorial video. He covers a topic that a lot of customers ask specifically about. Namely “How can I send information to a webhook and get information back from a webhook?”. In this case the Pickaxe gets an ID number from a user, then looks up the ID in an airtable database, then returns information associated with that ID.
In this video he explains how to:
Send information from your Pickaxe to a Make webhook
Use that information in Make automation to query a database
Return information from the database back to your Pickaxe.
A high-level rundown of the process is:
Create a Chatbot in Pickaxe
Create a new automation in Make that starts with a webhook (see screenshot)
Connect the Make webhook Action in Pickaxe
Define the input data (e.g., a client ID provided by the user).
Test the connection to Make.com to ensure it’s receiving the correct data (e.g., client ID = 1250).
Add the database module in your Make automation (i.e. Airtable)
Add a webhook module in your Make automation to send the response back to Pickaxe.
Test the flow
For more information about each of these steps, check out the video tutorial!
I found it a little frustrating at the begining with it not working, but now have it down pat. If you need some help, happy to do a screenshare with you.