How to make a workflow repeat a certain amount of times

nickkessel22 · 2020-11-06T15:57:59.098Z

Basically the title, I want to make a workflow repeat itself when it finishes. How do I do this?

bartek.dev · 2020-11-06T17:56:51.830Z

Make it an backend workflow or custom event
Have a condition at the end of it that schedules the same backend workflow or custom event it if e.g. x<3
Update x every time you run a workflow
Be really careful not to repeat it indefinitely

vinicius.tst.eng · 2020-12-05T20:02:55.773Z

bartek.dev:

Have a condition at the end of it that schedules the same backend workflow or custom event it if e.g. x<3

What condition it would be?

Thanks a lot!

bartek.dev · 2020-12-06T14:21:25.330Z

Well, I have not had a use case personally for this yet but if I had to do it I would have a simple field Count on the Data Type you want to make changes on and let’s say you want to repeat the workflow on this Thing 3 times:

Have a default Count = 0
Every time the workflows go through update the Count= Count+1
Have condition that only runs the workflow if the Count is <= 3. (same condition on the scheduling action but there you should use it as "Results of Step X…Count <=3 as a backup)

So I would do it like that, but of course if you try doing it, test it out to make sure it isn’t looping indefinitely on edge cases

vinicius.tst.eng · 2020-12-06T20:18:12.519Z

Awesome bro! Thanks a lot!

I will try it!

Cheers

system · 2021-01-15T15:58:02.488Z

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