Do Every 5 Seconds WU Consumption Question

[mital.patel]

Workflow Actions Question.

I’ve done a bit of Googling but didnt really find my question answered. There were some forum posts that were tangent, but im looking for the straight answer.

I want to implement a token system for when my users log into my app to ensure the other sessions are removed based on that token. The token generates and then, once inside the app, a “Do Every 5 Seconds” workflow fires off.

I ran a single test and saw that for that “Do Every 5 Seconds” workflow, based on the actions in that workflow, the entire workflow can equate to 0.09 WU.

Can i confirm that these WU are only consumed when the condition to run the action is true?

Doing some basic math and assuming the action does consume regardless of condition, it would mean that every month this single workflow would consume 2,799,360 WU’s, which is crazy and makes me believe it only costs the fee when its true.

[adamhholmes]

Only server actions incur WU costs.

So if your do every x seconds workflow (including any conditions applied to it) is interacting with the server it will cost WU every time it runs (or every time the condition is evaluated).

If not, then it won’t cost anything.