I was troubleshooting an issue and I came across a workflow that has 2 steps that conditionally trigger based an item existing or not* and the first step creates the item. Does that mean that sometimes step 2 will trigger sometimes will not? Best is to put these in a fetch or create type of custom w…

Can’t you use Result of Step 1 in this case? Scheduling API workflows takes priority in workflows, so I suspect you may run into some timing issues here. Unless I’m missing what you’re doing here.

You have to do Search:plus item Result of Step 1:count... to ensure it includes everything

[image] rico.trevisan: Does that mean that sometimes step 2 will trigger sometimes will not? Yep. I would put these 2 steps in a custom event and pass the condition as an event parameter instead. This way you are assured that the result of your condition stays true or false throughout the c…

[image] petter: Scheduling API workflows takes priority in workflows Interesting. This is the sort of under the hood that we expect from you, Mr. Docs. Is this documented somewhere? [image] petter: Can’t you use Result of Step 1 in this case? If step1 doesn’t run, step2 will try to ru…

Thanks, Petter! That clarifies a ton! That whole chapter should live in the editor. Actually the editor should represent that instead of “lying” to me with arrows and step#, it should just have it fan out into multiple actions unless the actions fall into the sequential buckets you outlined [Bubbl…

[image] rico.trevisan: it is important to note that a given step does not necessarily wait for the previous one to complete before triggering the next one This is extremely extremely wrong when it comes to backend workflows. And a huge problem.

[image] rico.trevisan: a workflow with lots of detached actions (no “user x of step x”) will trigger all the actions at the same time. In theory, if you create a dependency on a previous step in a workflow, it should respect that previous step, but everything else without the dependency will …

@rico some thoughts on this: The “mental model” that you should have is still that things run in sequence. Technically there are certain circumstances where consecutive “create a thing” or “make changes to a thing” actions can run in a single block, all at once Bubble only does this if the actio…

Step 2 could trigger sometimes, no?

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petter October 29, 2025, 1:02pm 6

Is this documented somewhere?

@rico yes, it’s documented here.

"Make change to a thing" sometimes fails

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Step 2 could trigger sometimes, no?

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