Long Actions

Long Actions (or Long Running Actions) are a special class of Workato actions that excels at processing bulk data. Long Actions may require several minutes to hours to complete.

Under normal circumstances, actions would throw a timeout error. However, Long Actions allow the action to complete without raising a timeout error.

CANNOT RUN LONG ACTIONS IN TEST MODE

Long Actions require dedicated users to periodically check if the action is complete. This is not available in test mode.

If your recipe contains a Long Action, use Start Recipe instead.

How does this work?

When the job execution reaches a Long Action, Workato temporarily puts the job on hold and checks periodically if the Long Action has completed processing. Workato proceeds to the next step in the recipe after the action completes.

LONG ACTIONS JOB SEQUENCE

If your recipe has a Long Action step and job, note that when the action is put on hold, Workato automatically disregards the job sequence. The next job begins to process even if the previous job is not finished and the recipe concurrency is set to 1.

List of Long Actions

Long Actions are supported by applications like Salesforce and NetSuite, and databases.

Connector	Action	Description
Anaplan	Run data import	Run a data import process in Anaplan
	Run data export	Run a data export process in Anaplan
	Run deletion	Run a delete action in Anaplan
	Run process	Run a process in Anaplan
Databases	Export query result	Exports a query result as a CSV
Scheduler	Wait	Wait for specified length of time
SQL Transformation	Query CSV data	Query CSV data from different sources using SQL and output results
Marketo	Bulk export leads to file	Retrieve a list of Marketo leads as comma, tab, or semi-colon separated values
	Bulk import leads from file	Bulk import leads to Marketo from file
	Bulk export activities to file	Retrieve a list of Marketo activities as comma, tab, or semi-colon separated values
NetSuite	Add/Create in bulk	Adds/creates in bulk in NetSuite
QuickBooks	Wait for paid invoice	Wait for paid invoice on QuickBooks
Salesforce	Create/Update/Upsert records in bulk from CSV file
	Create/Update/Upsert records in bulk from CSV file (API 1.0)
	Retry bulk job for failed records from CSV file	Retry bulk job in Salesforce for failed records
	Search records in bulk using SOQL
SAP	Send IDoc	Send IDoc to SAP
SurveyMonkey	Send survey invite via email and wait for response	Send survey invite via email and wait for response in SurveyMonkey
People Task	Request task approval	Request approval via People Task
Google BigQuery	Insert rows	Inserts rows in the selected table
	Select rows	Select rows in a table in BigQuery
	Select rows using custom SQL	Select rows using custom SQL in BigQuery
	Run custom SQL	Run custom SQL in BigQuery
	Select rows using custom SQL and insert into table	Select rows using custom SQL and inserts the result into a table in BigQuery
	Load data from Google Cloud Storage	Load data from Google Cloud Storage into BigQuery
GRPC	Invoke a gRPC service
	Invoke a gRPC service and write result to CSV file
Zendesk	Create/update object/record. Bulk upsert	Creates object or record if it doesn't exist otherwise update existing
Workbot for Slack	Wait for user input/action	The Workbot recipe job is suspended until the user provides input. The job continues to the next action when it receives the input; it does not run a separate command as a distinct recipe trigger.