[external] Batch processing to prevent timeouts

External content by Daniel Krüger; July 25, 2025 ; 
The original post has appeared on daniels-notes.de

If you are reading this post you are either creating a lot of workflows or working with external systems. While doing so you will probably have run into a timeout.

While you may have come up with a similar solution 

• Define a single sourth of truth to identify the next batch of elements
• Process the elements on the path to a flow control
  This will use a for each with collection type 'data source'. Yes, I don't use an item list.
• Check if every element was processed
• If this is not the case, move the workflow instance to a temporary step
• A timer aka timeout will trigger the path again

This is the automation for processing the elements:

If you are interested in the details you can read up on it here.