I am having issues with a workflow that runs when it shouldn’t. When Page is loaded I have the workflow set up to set a few unrelated element states, and then it calls a custom workflow called Check User Exists Check User Exists then uses the LocalStorage plugin’s action called Get LocalStorag…

[image] kyle.b.williams: But even in step-by-step debug mode? Shouldn’t that only cause the item to run when I click “Next Step”? Nope :slight_smile: [image] Debugger: Data (Things) actions ignores "step-by-step" mode? Need help Haven’t paid attention before, but wh…

This hidden post might answers some of your questions :slightly_smiling_face: It should be on the documentation. General rules about how workflows run: Frontend workflow actions run in order but the next action does not wait on the previous action to be complete before triggering. Backend work…

Thanks; however, that is exactly the post I read that made me break the workflow up into several custom events. Where I’m very confused is that when I run step-by-step debug mode, this custom event (including the Create WF User… action) never appears to run in the debug console, and it runs before …

I’ve had similar issues in the past with reading cookies… what it usually comes down to is it takes some time to read the cookie’s value (in your case Local Storage), so relying on that data for conditions in the same workflow is never going to be reliable… Presumably in your case, when the workflo…

Thanks—I am trying to wrap my head around this (and some other issues) and will update here if I make any progress. The thing that is still confusing the heck out of me is WHY does the Create WF User… action run as soon as the page is loaded? You can clearly see it happening in the YouTube video I …

As explained in the post linked to by @vnihoul77 , workflow actions don’t wait until the previous one has finished… So in this case, the action to schedule the Custom Event runs more-or-less as soon as the workflow starts - that’s how it works.

But even in step-by-step debug mode? Shouldn’t that only cause the item to run when I click “Next Step”? And even then, it never shows it running in the step-by-step debugger. Surely that isn’t correct…?

The Debugger is a great tool for checking many things… But it’s not much use for checking the order of workflow actions. (in many cases, the workflow actions will have run long before you actually click the next button - even to the point that conditions will show up as being true/false in the deb…

I have been using Bubble for a few years now (I’ve even developed some plugins) and this is the first time I’ve ever seen something run without even showing up in the debugger. Especially an item inside of a custom event. I even added a breakpoint to the Create WF User… action and it still doesn’t b…

Wow. Okay, so that’s new info for me. Thus far, I guess I just hadn’t run into any issues with the debugger like this. I’m going to circle back and try adding some 10-20 second delays between steps and see if I can figure out which actions are taking so long to execute and having my conditions be i…

Also don’t forget to check server logs. Sometimes they can be more helpful than debugger.

Workflow runs when it shouldn't, and runs out of order

Need help

artemzheg April 14, 2023, 4:47pm 10

Nope

P.S. Also debugger is almost useless if you are deleting things and some related data/connections.

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