Skip Step

Skip Step

The skip step feature allows a recipe to ignore an action or a block of actions, such as Repeat or Conditional steps, during runtime. This feature is useful in several scenarios:

Incremental Recipe Building: When building a recipe, you may choose to first construct the high-level logic. You can configure and test the recipe in portions by setting actions that are not currently being configured to be skipped.

Iterating Between Logic Flows: When testing different logical methods within a recipe, you can alternately skip steps associated with each method to determine which one works best.

Handling Faulty Steps: During recipe development, if you encounter design-time errors due to issues like broken connections, incorrect formulas, or missing configurations, you can skip these steps while continuing to test the rest of the recipe.

A trigger is required to initiate the recipe, so Integration Hub does not support skipping triggers.

Note

Datapills from skipped actions are not available for use in subsequent actions.

How to Use Skip Step

To skip a step, click the Skip Step icon, which becomes visible when you hover over the action.

A skipped step is grayed out. Click the Unskip Step icon to restore it to the recipe logic.

Figure: Skip step

A skipped step is grayed out. Click the Unskip Step icon to restore it to the recipe logic.

Figure: Unskip step

You can skip an entire logical group of actions rather than individual actions by using the Skip Action Block feature.

You can apply Skip Mode to the following action blocks:

• Conditional Blocks

• Repeat Blocks

• Error Monitor Blocks

This functionality aligns with the intended behavior of control flows. A conditional statement is logically linked to its corresponding actions. Therefore, if a conditional block is skipped, all nested steps within that block are also skipped.

How to Use Skip Action Block

To skip an action block, select "Skip Block" on a parent step, such as a Repeat step. This process is similar to skipping a single step.

When you skip the parent node of an action block, all nested steps are automatically skipped.

To undo the skip on an action block, select Unskip from the parent node. It is not possible to unskip a single action step nested within a skipped action block. You can either skip or unskip the entire block or keep the block active and directly skip/unskip its child steps.#

Figure: Unskip

Skipping a step causes all dependent steps to fail when the recipe runs. Any subsequent actions that rely on datapills from the skipped step will trigger an error.

For example, this recipe encounters an error during testing because a step is referencing datapills from a previously skipped step.

Figure: Skipped step