I'm using html node to apply a CSS selector and sometimes this selector returns nothing, so html node doesn't return anything. Is there a good way to continue the flow anyway and put something like "false" in the payload? Preferrably without using timeouts. Thanks.

[image] dceejay: a simple test would seem to show that if you ask for an array of results, and there is no match then indeed you should get an empty array. Doh! I went back and checked my test flow again, and the selection of array mode had not 'taken'. I guess I must have moved the mouse as…

kuzmich 21 January 2019 00:20 8

Thanks everyone, using an array does indeed solve the problem.

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Continue flow after empty response from HTML node

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