API Workflow on a list not completing items

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How complex is this workflow? How many items are you sending to it?

You could be hitting some of Bubble’s limits. Josh highlights some of them here:

Schedule API workflow on a list - does the list have a limit?

There’s a hard limit of 20,000 list items retrieved in a search (which we can raise on dedicated installations.) There’s also soft limits after 7 - 10 minutes for any given workflow run, which you’ll probably hit before the 20,000 list limit (we can’t raise this one on dedicated right now; we’re working on various things to get rid of this limit, including speeding things up, and breaking up long-running workflows into chunks so we can run them persistently). Running a “Schedule API workflow o…

A couple of answers down I mention how I solved my issue by using recursive workflows. It might be helpful:

Schedule API workflow on a list - does the list have a limit?

I stubbornly wasted quite some time trying to get around this instead of asking for help. When I finally asked for help the solution was clear within minutes. I’m writing this as a: note-to-self (I tend to forget), way of helping someone else in the future; and, getting some feedback from the Bubble hive-mind. Here is the solution I came up. tl;dr learn how to use recursive workflows. Some context: I need to: create a list of Apartments within Buildings (100-300 apartments per building,…