Which is more efficient: one flow or multiple flows?

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Topic summary

Main issue: whether to combine logical conditions/actions into one workflow or split them into multiple flows for better efficiency and reliability.

  • Recommended approach: Keep related conditions in a single workflow organized as a decision tree (if/else sequence).
  • Rationale: Multiple separate workflows with the same or similar trigger can run at different times and may overwrite each other’s actions, increasing risk of conflicts.

Scale and limitations:

  • Practical guidance: A workflow can handle around 100 actions “without much problem.”
  • Caveat: Beyond ~100 actions, the workflow may become slower to load. No hard platform limit was specified in the discussion.

Outcome/Status:

  • Clear guidance provided: prefer a single, consolidated workflow using a decision tree to manage related logic and avoid conflicting executions.
  • Open questions: None raised beyond performance; conversation concluded with acknowledgment of the advice.
Summarized with AI on January 1. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi @rickydazla ,

Thanks for the question - it’s a great one! It’s recommended to have multiple related conditions in one workflow using a decision tree (if no, continue to the next condition). This is because if there are multiple separate workflows with the same trigger and conditions (or similar conditions), they will execute at different times and also could overwrite the actions of a previous one.

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