Seems like a sensible approach Nick. 👍

I felt it was more useful on balance to be able to set the return type at the top level - a default behaviour to apply to all subs.

But I forgot to follow through whilst sorting everything else out.

I don't recall seeing what msg property would be used to specify the return type... but it want something I went looking for.

I suggest:

• leave the UI as is.
• ensure the selected choice is applied properly, unless the msg sets a different choice.

I don't think it's necessary to have a "set by msg" option - I think it's far more useful to be able to set the default that can be overridden per subscription if it's really needed. And a user isn't likely to accidentally override it, so the usual concerns about msg overriding node don't apply in the usual way.

@juanbaldovi

Below is a demo flow I was using during development. Look at the inject 1 and inject 2 for using auto/json return types.

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I believe I know what's going on here. In the beta versions before release, the selection for return type was hidden because you can specify the return type per subscription.

I can't remember the property name at this moment, I'll update this message shortly with info.

@knolleary I believe the return type should either be hidden or should include an additional entry "Set by msg"

Just want to bump this: Singleton subflows definitely have their use case, and when I was searching for this feature I immediately used the search term "Singleton subflows", so the name seems intuitive.

Hello, any news about this issus ? I have a Bearer token to pass in the http header for authentification but I don't see any field where I can pass this token.

Please help.

Regards

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