{"id":739,"date":"2023-05-13T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T19:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=739"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:14:14","slug":"asynchronous-and-synchronous-workflows","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/?ht_kb=asynchronous-and-synchronous-workflows","title":{"rendered":"Asynchronous and synchronous workflows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can connect multiple workflows through subworkflows. Subworkflows are components in a workflow that trigger the execution of another workflow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By default, the workflow component waits until a subworkflow has finished executing. If you want the workflow to continue without waiting for the subworkflow to finish, select &#8220;trigger asynchronously&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-13-at-21.45.40-1024x323.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-13-at-21.45.40-1024x323.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-13-at-21.45.40-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-13-at-21.45.40-768x242.png 768w, https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-13-at-21.45.40-50x16.png 50w, https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-13-at-21.45.40-60x19.png 60w, https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-13-at-21.45.40-100x32.png 100w, https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2023-05-13-at-21.45.40.png 1058w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Asynchronous configuration example<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can connect multiple workflows through subworkflows. Subworkflows are components in a workflow that trigger the execution of another workflow. By default, the workflow component waits until a subworkflow has finished executing. If you want the workflow to continue without waiting for the subworkflow to finish, select &#8220;trigger asynchronously&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht-kb-category":[94],"ht-kb-tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/739\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fht-kb-category&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.help.headlight.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fht-kb-tag&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}