How Do I Mix Conditional 'If's (AND and OR)?

Created by: Kyle Tan

Modified on: Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:13 AM

Workato recipes regularly contain compound conditional actions of the same type ('If X and Y and Z' or 'If X or Y or Z').

But how do we mix different conditional actions ('If X and [Y or Z]')?

While conditional actions must be of the same type, we can effectively mix conditions by using formula mode.

For example, what if we want a recipe to only trigger when:

To explain how this is possible, we will start by simplifying the problem. We will begin with just one AND condition:

In order to add an OR condition, we will click the blue formula mode toggle button at the right side of the second "Trigger data" field:

We will use the ".present?" method with OR, and change the condition to "is true". Our trigger conditions are changed to now look like this:

Now, when the recipe is run, it will only be triggered when:

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Kyle is the author of this solution article.

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