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MarkShnier__You
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5 years ago

Pipeline "for each" loops

I must be missing a basic concept with Pipelines. My goal is to Search (retrieve) records from a table.  Then for each record, do three steps in sequence. 1. Update a record  2. Call an API Webhook...
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MarkShnier__You
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5 years ago
Right, so maybe the escalation expert will come back with a way to trick it into waiting for he completion of the previous step.

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BlakeHarrison
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5 years ago
This is one of the "benefits" of Pipelines. Running them in parallel is supposed to increase performance, but I totally understand your use case.

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    MarkShnier__You
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    5 years ago
    I did notice that in the Pipelines dialogue it did say it was starting the For Each loop "in parallel".  So I totally get why it would want to essentially fire off a multitude of webhooks (or however it actually does it under the covers) all at once and have them all race to completion so that the Pipeline runs fast.

    But I'm hoping that there will be a trick to get them to run in series.

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