Build recipes in small steps

Workato recommends that you build and test recipes incrementally to isolate logic and identify errors early. This approach simplifies development and reduces debugging time.

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Use skip step to partially build recipes

You can mark a step as skipped to instruct the recipe to bypass that step or block at runtime. Skipped steps don't run, and their datapills are unavailable for use in subsequent steps.

A skipped step doesn't run and its datapills are not available

When to use skip step

Use skip steps in the following situations:

Objective	Scenario
Test a recipe incrementally	Build and test part of a recipe while leaving other steps unconfigured. Skip the incomplete steps to run and validate the logic you finished.
Compare logic paths	Try different methods to solve the same problem. Skip one branch of logic to focus on testing the other without deleting any steps.
Bypass faulty steps	Skip steps that return design-time errors, such as invalid connections, datapills, or missing configurations, to test the rest of the recipe without interruption.