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A question on order of execution for child workflows

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Posted on by bpoindexter

Let me describe the scenario.

My CRM system has a list of items that require an action to be taken on each item in the list.  There are two workflows involved.  Workflow A starts running when an item is added to the list.  Workflow B runs as a child workflow for each item in the list.

I would like to arrange this so that Workflow A never has more than one instance of Workflow B running at any given time.  Or put another way, I want to configure things so that Workflow A spawns an instance of Workflow B for the first item in the list, waits for Workflow B to complete, then moves on to the next item in the list and spawns an instance of Workflow B for that instance.

Is this possible, either OOB or with custom workflow activities / plugins?

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  • chadwick_stokes Profile Picture
    chadwick_stokes on at
    RE: A question on order of execution for child workflows

    What were the results?

  • bpoindexter Profile Picture
    bpoindexter on at
    RE: A question on order of execution for child workflows

    I will arrange a test and post back results.

  • Aiden Kaskela Profile Picture
    Aiden Kaskela 19,692 on at
    RE: A question on order of execution for child workflows

    I've never tested it but my gut says that would work.

  • bpoindexter Profile Picture
    bpoindexter on at
    RE: A question on order of execution for child workflows

    Aiden,

    That's kind of what I thought but there is one rub.  I will need Workflow A to run asynchronously.  So I guess the real question is, can an Async workflow call synchronous child workflows and have them finish in order?

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    Aiden Kaskela Profile Picture
    Aiden Kaskela 19,692 on at
    RE: A question on order of execution for child workflows

    Hi,

    It sounds like you can change Workflow B to run as a synchronous workflow and that should do it. WF-A will run and span WF-B in a loop but since they're synchronous you *should* have each finish before the next starts.

    Hope this helps! I'd appreciate if you'd mark this as Answering your question.

    Thanks,

     Aiden

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