Is it possible to pause a Workflow then continue it at a later time? For example, we’d like to start a Workflow with several Jobs, but want to put it into a suspended/paused state until some external event occurs (like a webhook), which would satisfy the dependency and resume the rest of the workflo…

Doesn’t appeding jobs to a workflow solve your issue? Oban.Pro.Workers.Workflow — Oban Pro v1.4.5 You can create a workflow with all the jobs that doesn’t rely on the webhook. When the webhook happens, you can append the jobs that depend on the webhook and inc…

Thanks @cevado , I do think that could work, but I was hoping to be able to define the whole Workflow up front (in a single place) as opposed to having that logic in two different places. It seems like we may need to have a job in the middle that essentially checks for a condition and snoozes itself…

[image] jdellitt: Thanks @cevado , I do think that could work, but I was hoping to be able to define the whole Workflow up front (in a single place) as opposed to having that logic in two different places. you can make the code that append the jobs as a public function in the workflow module. …

No, unfortunately. I think we ended up going in a different direction altogether.

As alluded earlier in this thread, the way we usually suggest doing this is to have the job you’d like to pause snooze itself in a loop, with a limit to prevent unbounded retries. Here’s an example: defmodule MyApp.PausedWorker do use Oban.Pro.Worker @impl Oban.Pro.Worker def process(job) do…

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bkilshaw September 4, 2024, 6:32pm 5

@jdellitt Did you ever figure this out by any chance?