Can the ai agent clear and re-use the same $fromAI() variable?

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I’m using an AI agent to retrieve a member list form google sheets and create a sheet for each member using {{ $fromAI(“username”) }}
Even though the ai agent is cycling through and creating the sheets 1 by 1 with the correct variable.

Google sheets just creates the same sheet over and over.

Lead’s me to believe ai agent cannot clear and re-use the same variable. Is this correct? Is there a workaround?

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Hi @Troy_Remelski

In your last screenshot you’re sharing the username of Run 1 of 6.
Is it the same for all 6 ? Could you share your workflow so that we can recreate this issue?

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Each of the 6 usernames is different, thus the question
Can I run $fromA(“username”) but have the variable cleared/reset/replaced for each iteration.

The ai agent get’s the list of usernames, then attempts to create sheets for each of the 6 users. But it seems it can’t clear/overwrite the variable so it will only ever create the first username sheet.

I solved this, but creating a loop, but it’s annoying.

I solved this a second way by creating a lot of google sheet tools and variables so that I could have:
sheet tool1 handle $fromAI(“username1”)
sheet tool2 handle $fromAI(“username2”)
etc.
Also, annoying and limited by how many tools/variables I provide for it

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Hi @Troy_Remelski

This was indeed a bug and we have just released a fix for this with version 1.72.0

Please let us know if this resolves it for you :pray:

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