Conditional Container

agustingaravaglia

Hi all,

I have a query about the feasibility of creating a workflow under the following criteria: 

The idea is that the entire workflow is scheduled every 15 minutes and "container 2" is only executed conditional on the result of "container 1". In other words, the container 1 will look for a flag in a specific folder and if it is present, container 2 will run. We don't want to ping the database every 15 minutes as that is not a best practice. 

Do anyone know if this is feasible? 

Any help or similar solution will be greatly appreciated.  

Thanks in advance!

JosephSerpis

Hi @agustingaravaglia yes that is feasible I have created and seen others wrap a container in a batch macro and then build logic for example to determine if current day was a weekday or weekend as their workflow needed to be scheduled to run every hour however they did not want this to occur on weekends. Attached is a mock up I built for the example I outlined where certains containers will only open during cetains days. If you have any issues opening the attached Alteryx package this link should help.

Condtional_Containers_17022022.yxzp