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A workflow that requires a longer time for execution can be set as a background workflow. This ensures that the workflow runs in the background until it finishes execution and does not fail. For example, a normal workflow that has to filter around 20000 records might fail because of a longer execution time. However, if set as a background workflow it completes its execution uninterruptedly without failure.

Setting a workflow as a Background Workflow

• Enter a suitable name to the function block in the field Label.
• Add a description to the function block, if any.
• Select the workflow you want to run as a background workflow from the dropdown list.
• Use Namespace to pass values or variables to your background workflow. You can also specify the name of the block that has the parameters to be passed to the background workflow.

Note: Background Workflow is used for handling and processing tasks that are time-consuming or that involve large data. You can pass only a single identifier to the Background Workflow and all data processing is done within the Background Workflow.