Workflow orchestration for data pipeline activities

[maxnilz]

Hi found an alternative way instead of using the signals from here:

Best way to stucture a fetch order process

I have the idea to poll a Shop API for new orders. Every new order should be transfered to a ERP system. What’s the best way to structure that process? Should everything covered in one workflow with several activities? Or is there a way to have a workflow to fetch the orders and a second workflow to transfer them to the ERP system (maybe a child-workflow)? Can the event system be used to start a second workflow for every new order?

Have two workflows:

1. the first one is doing the long polling activity from the DB
2. start another row-based workflow inside the polling workflow in the first workflow

The cons of this approach are it’s not easy to track the association between the two workflows, but in our case, it seems like it’s not so important.