Runs

Congratulations on having a workflow that's ready to run! Here's some basic information and suggestions on starting, viewing, and managing your runs.

Test runs

If you're still validating your workflow, click Start a test run in the Editor tab to run your workflow all the way through. Test runs are the same as real runs, but:

• You'll select existing data to use to start the run (e.g. an existing row in a spreadsheet)

• You'll be able to run AI steps for free (up to a reasonable limit of course 😉)

You'll see a summary of how many AI credits a step would have used at the top of the run once it's complete.

To be able to start test runs, you'll need to publish any unpublished changes to your workflow.

Runs tab

To see your workflow's active runs, click on the Runs tab at the top of the screen. Each run is a specific instance of your workflow.

Runs can be in several states. You'll see these states grouped in sections in the All runs list in the left navigation.

• Pending: Runs that haven't started yet, like a large batch still processing

• Running now: Runs that are actively working on the latest step

• Issues: Runs that are paused due to errors

• Action required: Runs that require a human-in-the-loop action, like entering data or approving that it can continue

• Waiting: Runs in a waiting state, for example due to a wait step or being manually paused

• Completed: Runs that have fully completed

• Trash: Deleted runs, which can be restored for 30 days before being permanently deleted

Run actions

You can take different actions on runs based on their state:

• Pause: Stop all activity on a run until it's manually unpaused

• Retry failed steps: Rerun steps with errors to see if any recent updates to the workflow, or transient errors from the integration, have been resolved

• Replay: Start a new run using the same data as the selected run

• End: Make the run end right away, even if not all steps have completed

• Delete: They'll be in the trash for 30 days

Some sections will let you take these actions in bulk. For example, you can Retry all failed steps for all runs in the Issues section.

Freezing runs

If you need to immediately stop the activity of a workflow, say because you have many active runs and you realize they all need to be stopped, look for the Freeze all runs button in the top right menu of the workflow or any run.

Freezing runs means:

• No new runs will be generated, even if your trigger conditions are matched

• All runs will immediately stop processing

While runs are frozen, you'll be able to delete them.

When you unfreeze, any active runs will continue again, and if there's a queue of missed trigger items, new runs will be created for them.