Invoke Secondary Workflows

Learn how to invoke workflows from other workflows

You can trigger other workflows asynchronously from within a primary workflow using the keyword lam.asyncExecute, allowing for more complex automation scenarios without waiting for the secondary workflow to complete.

Imagine you have an e-commerce application with two workflows:

1. process-new-order: Handles new orders, inventory updates

2. customer-communication: Sends various emails to customers

When a new order comes in, you want to process it immediately but handle customer communications separately.

As a first step of the process-new-order workflow, you would invoke the customer-communication workflow as follows:

return {
  "lam.asyncExecute": [
    {
      "lam.workflowId": 39, // customer-communication workflow id
      "lam.payload": { /* payload data */ }
    }
  ]
}

You can also invoke multiple workflows asynchronously by appending to the lam.asyncExecute array.