Work with nodes on the canvas

Trigger nodes and later steps

The first node on the canvas is usually a trigger. A schedule, a form, or an incoming webhook starts the run there. Later nodes do not decide when work starts. They take the previous result and pass their own result on.

A digital organization can branch, but a run still enters through a trigger. Execute in the editor is a manual run. It is a different execution from one started by a live trigger.

Add a node

1. On an empty canvas, use the first-step control to place a trigger.
2. When a node already exists, use the plus on its output, or add a node on the canvas and connect it to the previous output.
3. Search by name. After you pick one, it lands on the canvas. Open it to fill in its parameters.

What you can do on a node

• Execute the node to run only that step and inspect its input and output. If earlier steps have not run, Duaer runs what this step depends on first.
• Deactivate it when you want to skip a step while you are still building.
• Delete it to remove it from the canvas. Connections into it break.
• The node menu can also pin data, or turn a selected stretch of nodes into a sub-organization. Pinning is explained in Pin data while you build.

Settings that change how the step runs

Open the node and switch to Settings. These options change how the step runs. They are not the business parameters.

• Always Output Data keeps an empty item moving forward when this step produced nothing, so later nodes are not stuck with no input.
• Execute Once runs the step a single time, using the first incoming item. Use it for one summary notification instead of one action per item.
• Retry On Fail retries after a failure, using the count and wait you set.
• On Error stops the digital organization, continues with the error, or sends the error to a separate error output.

Notes on the node

Notes in Settings stay on that node. You see them when the node is open. They are not the sticky notes drawn on the canvas. Neither kind of note runs.