Hi everyone what s the better pattern to finish a looping Fl

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Hi everyone what s the better pattern to finish a looping Flow as successful that has been scheduled indefinitely As of now the main Task of the Flow raises `ENDRUN Finished message= all rows from file read ` when it has finished reading all the lines in a big file I m not using the LOOP signal the Flow is an exercise to properly use `Result` objects Should I create a state handler and trigger a final reference task or is there something like `ENDRUN` but at the Flow level Any other alternatives

Julio Venegas · Answer

script here just in case

Dylan · Answer

Hi < Julio Venegas> That s for sharing your script Very helpful smile

Dylan · Answer

I might suggest raising a `SUCCESS` signal instead of `ENDRUN` because I believe you re trying to communicate a successful outcome for the Task

Julio Venegas · Answer

Ok thanks But if there are more runs scheduled it would continue running each of them right

Dylan · Answer

The way I m reading this `read row batch` will run as a single Task Run for a given Flow run

Dylan · Answer

So using either Signal is going to end the execution of that particular Task Run

Dylan · Answer

you won t hit the subsequent while loop

Dylan · Answer

If you want to run another Task only if you ve hit that conditional block you could instead return some object that indicates that

Dylan · Answer

and use control flow Tasks to enforce it

Dylan · Answer

Julio Venegas · Answer

Niiice Will try out your suggestions thanks a lot

Dylan · Answer

If I understand you correctly you want to run a Task only if that conditional block where the ENDRUN Signal resides is reached correct

Dylan · Answer

anytime

Julio Venegas · Answer

If that conditional block is reached I want to finish the Flow and not run any other downstream Tasks

Dylan · Answer

Got it

Julio Venegas · Answer

So basically at the time ENDRUN is raised I also want to finish the Flow

Dylan · Answer

Same idea applies just in the inverse

Dylan · Answer

If you return an object that says don t keep going you can use a control flow Task to end the run

Dylan · Answer

Does that make sense

Julio Venegas · Answer

Makes sense Will dig into the conditional logic page you sent

Dylan · Answer

thumbsup

Dylan · Answer

Glad I could help smile

Julio Venegas · Answer

Thanks a bunch Dylan

Julio Venegas · Answer

< Dylan> would you mind checking my script I did the conditional case Task and I wanted to add a reference Task with `flow set referenece tasks ` but I m getting a `ValueError reference tasks must be part of the flow `

Julio Venegas · Answer

new script

Julio Venegas · Answer

actually since that task has no downstream dependencies it would be a terminal task right so no need to make it a reference task anyways

Julio Venegas · Answer

Forget about the `ValueError` question it s still a bit odd that it was raised but setting the reference task was unnecessary anyways Thanks for all the help

Dylan · Answer

Hey Julio sorry to miss out here

Dylan · Answer

Seems like you got this sorted

Dylan · Answer

Let me know if I can help smile

Julio Venegas · Answer

All sorted out smile thanks