Error trigger node - send slack message

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Hello again,

I currently have a workflow which sends a message when the workflow started and updates that message when the workflow has successfully completed. like this

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Is there any way to update that same message if for any reason the workflow stops or runs into an error?

currently i have another workflow with an error trigger to send a new message, but you need the ts ID to update that message and is there anyway to get that while being in another workflow? preferably i would like to have it in the same workflow that way it can get the data that it needs?

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-latest version runnning on docker container

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Hey Josh,
that is an interesting use case. The only thing I can think of right of the box is using the workflow execution ID to save your ts ID, e. g. to a file. If your workflow errors you can use it’s execution ID to get your ts ID.

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very creative!

I like the sound of this, but it would be nice if you could go into a little more detail about how I can pick this file up. just like a write binary file to save the ts from previous workflow → read binary file get that ts id and pass it onto an slack update node is that right?

How can i access the execution ID data?

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Hi Josh,
to get the execution id you can use this expression

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Here is a sample workflow using the execution id to save json data to a file.

In your error workflow you could use the execution id to read the json file.

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