Is there a way to “return” a value from a sub workflow? Suppose I have a sub workflow that creates a db record and I need to access this record ID in a downstream job in the parent workflow. Here’s an example I have that attempts to recover it through recorded values but with no success: defmodule …

Yes, there’s absolutely a way to do this! It’s fairly essential to how cascades work as well. You need to pass the with_subs: true option to fetch the results of sub-workflows as well. @impl true def process(job) do - Workflow.all_recorded(job) |> IO.inspect() + Workflow.all_recorded(job,…

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Is there a way to "return" a value from a workflow?

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martosaur December 22, 2025, 7:44pm 3

Ah thank you, I totally missed this in the docs!