Output Node

The Output Node is used to return values from the workflow. The Output Node is a crucial component in our workflow logic, designed to handle HTTP response codes and return a value upon its execution.

Configuring the Output Node

We can configure the Output Node by selecting different options from the Use dropdown. The Output Node can return values from the following sources:

Last Node Output

The default configuration for the output node is to return the Last node output. There's no need to configure this setting, as it simply returns whatever the last node gives as the output.

Most of the use cases generally do not require a specific structure for the response to be returned. This setting is very useful for those cases - makes building super fast.

Custom Response

We can switch the configuration to use Custom Output from the dropdown options. You can use this setting to return exactly what you need from the workflow.

FEATURES:

• Use AI Autofill to generate values using AI. For example: return the current timestamp

• Create complex javascript expressions leveraging the context menu variables, like inputs, environment variables, local variables, and secrets.

For example, in case of the BuildShip Chatbot Widget which requires the message (the response for the Bot to respond with) and the Thread ID (to main chat history context).

We could add two output fields as shown below:

And map the workflow outputs to the trigger outputs in the set up like this:

Advanced Options

The Output Node also lets you set advanced configurations for the returned data, like the Status Code and Cache Time.

Status Code

We can set the HTTP Status code to return when the Output Node is executed. Supports a bunch of status codes for successes, and also failures which can be utilized in branching workflows.

• 200: OK
• 201: Created
• 202: Accepted
• 204: No Content
• 400: Bad Request
• 401: Unauthorized
• 403: Forbidden
• 404: Not Found
• 500: Internal Server Error

Cache Time

The Output Node allows us to set the cache time for the response in the cache-max-age response header. This is used by the browser to cache the response for the specified amount of time. This means that the caching would be handled by the browser and the response would be served from the cache if the cache time has not expired.

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