Pinned Content

[Jude_SV]

Hey guys,

Just want to ask if it’s just on my account’s end because I’m still using free trial or is there some issues with the pin feature on N8N? Currently running version [email protected]

I keep pinning content but it keeps going back to the initial step. I am using loops so are there issues with pinned content and loops?

[manueltnc]

Hello!
Could you provide an image or the code for your workflow? This could help me give a more direct response

Taking some guesses on how this could be setup and how you could fix it.

If you’re workflow looks something like this (with the pinned data within the loop). If you’re testing this out, you can try out

1. Disconnecting the loop as such and test out whatever steps you have within the loop using the pinned data
   

   

2. You should be able to trigger the loop from the end nodes or the test workflow button, regardless if you have Pinned Data or not
   

   
   
   
   

Not sure if this is helpful, if it was please mark the solution as completed

[Jude_SV]

Yes! Thank you for this. This is similar to my workflow and yes it’s usually through the loop section that’s causing the issue.

[Alex_Luo]

I have the same issue, I used loops to avoid open ai rate limiting, and the operation takes some time / tokens to finish, so I want to pin the results.

However, you can only pin the steps in the loop branch, not the loop node itself. So if you pin the steps, and rerun, the entire done branch will only have that ONE PINNED OUTPUT!

This makes it quite annoying to build and test any workflows with loops and expensive operations. The pinning should work on the done branch, and persist the output list.

A workaround would be to deactivate the loop node, and pin the downstream of the done branch. Very non beginner friendly

[Jude_SV]

Actually, I just realized that this isn’t only happening within the loop nodes but after as well. When I try to test out the nodes after the loop. For example, I have another LLM node 3 steps after the loop and I just want to test the next steps. When I test this node it tends to go back to the entire loop cycle even if I pinned the previous node which is really weird.