Support for branching (if / then) operation

[dylburger]

Currently, workflows are a linear sequence of steps. I'd like support to branch a workflow in a conditional manner (if condition is true, run this step, else run this other step).

[dylburger]

One comment from Slack: "what id love to see is some kind of support of metadata in steps that's a simple condition, like: Condition: [ ] where you enter a value that gets evaluated at runtime. if true, the step executes. you then enter something like "steps.jira_ticket.assignee === 'jim'""

[rugbbyli]

Hello, are there any updates for this feature ? @dylburger

[dylburger]

@rugbbyli not yet but we’re still actively thinking about it

[ThinkFar]

@dylburger, I would love to see this.
This is one of my biggest pain points with pipedream.

[kpetrillo]

Off the top of my head, this is my only request that would make my life so much easiest. Pipedream is a solid product but having conditional steps would be a game changer!

[essential-randomness]

Would it be possible to have some sort of "goto step #X if condition is true" block? I don't know how complex that would be to implement, but it seems in line with what other steps can do.

[dylburger]

@essential-randomness That's great feedback and yes, this would be possible with the implementation we envision for this.

[giondo]

no update yet?
I would be great to have conditionals steps
so we can perform different actions with diff integrations depending on the trigger

[dylburger]

@giondo No update on this yet, but it's near the top of our backlog after we finish #220 (currently our #1 most-requested feature).

[EnGlamdring]

@dylburger +1 I'm doing multiple flows right now to handle this and it's driving me nuts. Thanks!

[devang-kredx]

I'd like to keep logic of different branches of a workflow separated and clean so that it's easier to track and debug (rather than managing branching in the code itself and then having if-else statement in every subsequent block)