HubSpot Ideas

bellawu

IF branches reconnection

IF statements is a nice addition, but it is useless if the 2 branches created cannot be reconnected to continue a workflow. Otherwise it just forces us to duplicate all the common events in two branches, once the IF exception is passed...

http://ideas.hubspot.com/forums/76407-general-hubspot-ideas/suggestions/6490155-if-branches-reconnec...

 
HubSpot Updates
November 07, 2019 09:08 AM

Sorry @SarahN! Can you try again?

November 07, 2019 09:02 AM

This feature (Go To Action for Contact Workflows) is currently in private beta! This feature will be available as part of a broader under-the-hood renovation: moving contact workflows to our new workflows system.

 

Fill out this form to request earliest available access for your account, which will happen when we begin public beta, over the course of the next few weeks: https://forms.gle/oUkexNjHvqoKV4Bt7

 

When access is given, your most recent contact workflows (those created after August 5th) will be moved to the new workflows system, which gives access to this feature and more. To move an older contact workflow to the new system, you can do so by cloning it: every newly created workflow in your account will then live in the new system.

 

Please note that once you are opted into the new system, you cannot be opted back out. Read about all of the changes the new workflows system will bring, here: A New Engine for your Workflows 

August 26, 2019 12:11 PM

Hello everyone! Thanks for your questions and feedback. We hear you - we're currently, actively (as we speak!) working hard on bringing this feature (among others!) to Contact based workflows. We can update this thread again, once that's complete, for those following along.

 

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Delivered
August 22, 2019 04:32 AM

We've introduced the ability to reconnect workflow branches using a new “Go to” action. At the end of a branch, “Go to” lets you reconnect to other parts of the workflow. This new action is now live for deal, ticket, company, and quote-based workflows, and will come soon to contact-based workflows.

 

Navigate to any deal, ticket, company, or quote-based workflow and add an action. You’ll see a new option available called “Go to.” Once you select that action, you’ll have the ability to select where you’d like to connect in the workflow. You cannot create loops using the “Go to” action, and can only connect to actions later in the workflow.

 

https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/workflows/connect-workflow-branches-using-go-to-action-beta

August 07, 2019 06:39 AM

thanks for catching that @Kriszti! I just updated the link and it should work now.  

In Beta
August 07, 2019 06:33 AM

Hi all! I'm excited to announce we've put this feature in beta as of yesterday. It's currently only available in deal, ticket, company, and quote-based workflows, but will be coming soon to contact-based workflows. If you're interested in testing it as part of the beta, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-lUVTFBcCtepksiwiOYPBzakwkYPrZzShGBrcjYZo3fpFdQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

 

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June 12, 2019 08:51 AM

Hi all, this is solidly on our radar and we hope to tackle it in coming months. We're currently focusing primarily on reliability and core infrastructure work but this is one of our top priorities after that. We will keep this idea updated as anything changes. Appreciate your feedback here! 

Re: IF branches reconnection - changed to: In Planning
April 03, 2018 12:53 PM

92 Replies
Kriszti
Contributor

Upvoted! This functionality would be crucial for building even semi-complex nurture flows... hope to see it soon in HubSpot!

Best would be if it was possible to freely connect any workflow steps with each other (eg. Eloqua campaign canvas). 

 

Would be lovely to learn about where is the product team with this 🙂 

Csculthorp
Member

I can't believe this isn't available now. We moved over from Drip and assumed this very basic feature would be available. I can't recreate my workflows properly now...

EmilKristensen
Member

What is ETA on this? Without this feature, it makes a simple workflow advanced and the number of mistakes we see increased from using Activecampaign before. 

Please update us.


Morten_Olsson
Contributor

I see that this is in planning. Just chiming in to let you know, that this feature is sorely missed. Please prioritize highly 🙂

CrazyRussian
Member

HMMM, might have to quit HubSpot if this feature is not added ASAP. 

SarahN
Contributor

Especially considering that they just sent out an email about how the Marketing Pro cost is going up, but this still hasn't been announced as part of it. 

KJ1
Member

How are you supposed to build a good conditional workflow if you can't reconnect the two branches?  I can't believe a big marketing system as HubSpot doesn't have this basic feature. 

 

Any updates on this?

bmcenery
Member

Completely agree this is critical - skip logic in workflows is foundational in most automation platforms i've used, really disappointed to not see that in Hubspot. 

CH4
Participant

Any update or time frame on this? I see it's in planning?

robinsonjn22
Participant | Partner

This is critical. We are migrating a client from Act-On and this is a critical piece of our workflows. We need to be able to say "IF" XYZ Send this email and then reenter the contact back into the main workflow. Right now we are creating a massive web of if/then statements which is taking much more time and effort than it should be. 

 

HubSpot, when will this be rolling out???? This is abosolutley critical. 

joelduckworth
Participant

This is affecting us too and encourage Hubspot to prioritise this feature. 

Ben_Caliper
Participant

This is affecting us as well. We end up having to build out such a larger program and process as workarounds for this.

DaraS
Member

I've just had to create 5 workflows instead of 1 because it was far too painful to have to recreate every single step after each of the if/then branches (which added in one step for certain classes of enrolled contacts). Given you limit the number of workflows you should provide a better workaround for this situation.

robert1
Contributor

+1

krislioe
Member

We also need it very badly

+1

myMailHouse
Member

I just ran accross this same isssue.  We push a user down a branch and use email reminders to try and convert them from a partial to registerd user. If we are sussesful I want to add them back into the registerd user branch and not have to create a duplicate branch.  This would be a great hack!  

Gondyke
Member

Any update on this, HubSpot team? 

We're moving from a platform that was able to do this into HubSpot - having this feature would save us dozens of hours in tedious, repetitive configuration of duplicate steps.

Koogness
Participant

Please add this feature!

ab-jordanskole
Participant

ActiveCampaign has had this for a long time. Please add it. Seems silly not to and makes IF/ELSE unusable in a large number of circumstances. 

bheo
HubSpot Employee

Hi everyone,

 

My name is Beom and I am from the Hubspot Support team. It seems that this thread is requesting for the feature of putting all the contacts back to a single flow after going two separate ways via an IF/THEN branch - just had a customer reaching out about this feature, and I ended up on this thread! 

 

A workaround for this would be to use the "Enroll to another workflow" action (Professional onwards) - at the end of the two branches, if you enroll them to another workflow (with manual enrollment trigger set), you will technically be able to bring them back to a single flow. 

 

This is definitely not as convenient as joining the branches back together (which I'm sure we're working on), but I thought this workaround should be much more time-saving then manually duplicating all the actions.  Do let me know your thoughts on this!