How to return data from API Workflow and block until complete?

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Hi there!

I have setup an OpenAI API workflow. I have created a backend Custom Event to handle all the things I need to do with that OpenAI API.

I now need to trigger that Custom Event from the front-end and wait until I get a response before doing something else. So I setup an API Workflow that calls the Custom Event. In my API Workflow I “Return data from API” with the information I need, configured as Structured JSON, but all I’m getting back from the API Workflow is a number that increments each time I call it (1175, 1176, 1177, etc.).

I disabled privacy rules, disabled authentication and I’m still getting the same result.

I get I can update the database with the result of the API call and that’s working just fine. However, I need to return a value from the API to determine what URL I’m going to redirect to.

Is there a way to call an API workflow from the front-end, wait until the API workflow completes, and use the data returned from the API workflow in the next step in the front-end?

Thank you.

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Ugh…

TL;DR
Not possible without hacky work-around and taking on some level of security risk.

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I believe I found another way to do this:

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I’ll use this event and listen for database changes to take action and navigate when the data is what I’m looking for.

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Do when condition is true isn’t quite what you’re looking for I believe. There’s an event that will better suit you: When a Thing changes.

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Hi @jonah.deleseleuc can you tell me where I can find “When a thing changes”? Doesn’t seem this is an option on the client side. Sounds more like a server-side trigger.