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Workflow Design Patterns
When your automations grow, you need patterns. This guide covers advanced triggers, branching and decisions, loops and iteration, merging flows, time-based scheduling, basic error handling, and wait nodes for async flows. It's the jump from "workflows that work" to "workflows that survive production." You finish by building an alerting system.
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- 8
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Outcomes
What you'll be able to do
- Use advanced triggers beyond the manual one
- Branch your flow and make decisions across multiple paths
- Iterate over lists with loops without duplicating nodes
- Merge and combine flows that ran in parallel
- Schedule executions by time and handle time zones
- Handle errors so one failure doesn't bring down the whole workflow
- Use wait nodes for async and long-running flows
- Build an alerting system as your capstone project
Content
The syllabus, module by module
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- Module Introduction: Advanced Triggers
- Full Taxonomy of Triggers in n8n
- Schedule Trigger with Cron Expressions
- Advanced Webhook Trigger
- App-Event Triggers (Gmail, Slack, Calendar)
- Polling vs Event-Based: When to Use Each
- Combining Multiple Triggers in a Workflow
- Mini-Project: Practical Comparison of the 4 Main Triggers
- Module Introduction: Advanced Merge and Fan-Out/Fan-In
- Fan-Out: Split into Parallel Branches
- Merge: The 4 Modes in Depth
- Pattern: Combine Sources with Combine
- Parallelism with Synchronization (Wait Mode)
- Conditional Fan-Out
- Anti-Patterns and Traps of Merge
- Mini-Project: 3 Parallel Sources into a Single Report
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