Reusing the same workflow

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Hi there,
I have a workflow set up which handles whether a user can access certain pages or not.

I want to use use the same workflow on multiple pages without creating the same workflow in every page. Is this possible?

Thank you :slight_smile:

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You can with a reusable element.

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It is a workflow saying if the contact is type A show the page and if the contact is Type B show another page.
This logic will be used for multiple pages.

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You could also use a recurring event or backend workflow

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Thank you. I think I came across backend workflows but couldn’t figure it out couple of months ago. I should revisit then

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What you do is use the page on which you’ve built that feature as a template. When you create a new page, you use that template page as the page to clone from. Now your new page has those features.

(BTW, no previous reply is helpful.)

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Thank you Keith.

But the pages were build already :slight_smile:

And your suggestion is a good hack but not exactly what I’m after for.

Basically I wonder if we can define a function (workflow) in 1 place and call the function from other places .(pageS)

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No, you cannot.

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The closest you can come to this is the “reusable element” concept, which is not what you’re looking for.

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(The reason being is that Bubble builds web pages. It’s not a framework like React is a framework. Anything you use in a page must exist in the page. There’s no “calling” things from another page. Nothing exists outside of the current page.)

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This is easy. Create backend workflow to do what you want. Then on each page set a workflow event for on page load and trigger that backend workflow event. Easiest, and actually does work.

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@keith, could he not use an RE solely with a custom event and then call the RE’s custom event from whatever page he wants?

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Yes, I also see no reason why the BEWF wouldn’t work.

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There is no reason it wouldn’t work. Backend workflows are in my mind basically a reusable workflow…no need to create a reusable element just for a single workflow.

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@SerPounce @boston85719 @keith Thank you all.
Time for me to work on :slight_smile:

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Yes, this is a backend workflow. Build a workflow in backend workflows and then in other places call it by doing a workflow event in another location to ‘trigger a backend workflow’

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Well, no, it’s not what the OP is asking for. OP wants for there to be a context object that persists across pages. There is no such thing in Bubble. (Because the pages are “REAL” pages.)

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The only thing you’ll need to ensure is that the data a all good to go because there is no Visual Error handling.

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Simple yet genius!