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I have a record summarising the incidents that a client is involved in during each month. For some months this could be 0 incidents, for others there could be 5 or 6 etc. 

 

I am trying to translate this noise into external facing notion pages that give a summary of the month for each client and the individual events they were affected by. 

 

Here is how I am currently using the Line Itemizer feature: 

It is giving me a great output:

 

Which I was hoping I could use to now have a paragraph for 1: and a paragraph for 2: 

 

However when I get to a later text based action step and I look for the outputs I generated above, I get the same comma delineated stuff: 

Is there some other step I should be using?

Hi @Hugpuf 

 

The comma separated text is actually line items. i.e.: if you use a Loop by Zapier step, you can trigger the next actions separately for each of the line items. This would be your solution if you are looking to create a new entry for each of the line items. 

 

HOWEVER, IF I understand correctly, I would approach this differently. I would use Rollup fields and Formulas in Airtable to summarize the incidents in a paragraph for each client (given that you have your clients Linked to the incident in Airtable) THEN use this summary to create 1 record in Notion per client (if that is what you are looking for?) 

 

Let me know if that makes sense and if you need any more help. 


Hi Moh, thanks for responding so quickly to this. 

 

I have created a short loom giving a run down of where I’m at: 

 

 


Hi @Hugpuf. Thanks so much for sharing that helpful video to explain the situation. 🙂 

With Looping by Zapier you’d end up creating to separate database items. So if there were two incidents for a client, there would be one database item added for each of the incidents. 

But if you’re wanting all incidents to be added into a single database item then I’d suggest adding an additional Formatter action. You’d need a Formatter (Utilities > Line-item to Text) to convert the line items into text which you can then select in the Notion action. For example a Formatter action with the following set up would output all the incident line item information as text separated by a couple of return breaks:

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You would then select the Output Text field, from that Formatter action, in the Notion action. Which would look like this:
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And that would result in it appearing in Notion like this:
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Would that approach work for you here? 


This is awesome ^ thank you so much


You’re welcome, @Hugpuf. Happy to help! 😁