Re-using binary data - Update?

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Continuing the discussion from Re-using binary data:

Hi Jan,

Are there any updates to this or any announcements etc? Running into a few issues with binary data and it pulling through from previous nodes and wondered if anything had been implemented yet

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Hey @gleeballs , I don’t think any change since that time. What problem are you facing? There are a few techniques that could be applied depending on your use case.

For example, [onedrive via Graph HTTP] why binary don't upload if not exactly previous node? - #2 by ihortom.

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the main ones I face are

  1. getting binary data in an early node and then being able to use that several nodes down the workflow
  2. how to reference it after and if / switch / loop nodes.

perhaps i just need to rethink the way i build workflows out and not get the binary data until just before i need it somehow

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