After some feedback from other forum members, I am attempting to re-develop a flow that controls a multi-channel device. As I was working through this it seems that having a subflow within a subflow will be required. Is this frowned upon? So far my example works as expected. I have noticed though that once there are nested subflows, debug messages cease to function within the main and nested subflow for some reason. This is not a huge problem, just an observation. Here is my example flow. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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