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Recursive workflows for beginners in Bubble

Himanshu Sharma · No Code Assistant Free Beginner

A written, beginner friendly companion to the recursive workflow videos, useful if you prefer to read and copy the setup. It explains the self scheduling loop and the offset trick for processing large lists. Good reference to keep open while you build the workflow.

  • A recursive workflow schedules its next run at the end of each pass
  • Use an offset to walk through records in batches
  • This handles thousands of records without timing out

The question it answers

  1. My Bubble app slows to a crawl once I have a few thousand records. How do I fix performance without rebuilding in code?

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