Do triggers that use polling use executions every time they poll?

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I’m wondering about how executions are counted on cloud for triggers that involved polling. For example, the gmail integration has the option to poll every minute, every day, every hour etc. Does this use an entire execution every time it polls, or does it only use the execution if an email is found that triggers the workflow?

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It looks like your topic is missing some important information. Could you provide the following if applicable.

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I do not have the answer but my personal guess is that it only procs as an execution if the polling provides new data that starts the rest of the flow.

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