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 · Accepted solution]

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.

[agustingaravaglia]

Thank you very much for your quick response. I will check it out! 

[NikyN]

Hello @agustingaravaglia,

also solution is to use conditional runner attached below. But using this solution, you solution must be module based and each conditional part must be in different workflow.

Best Luck!

Niky