Implement Error-Proof Switch Node Fallbacks for Reliable Workflow Control

What Most People Miss When Using Switch Nodes (and How to Fix It)

Switch Node Best Practice

The Switch node is powerful — but easy to misconfigure. Without a proper fallback, things can silently break. 🧨

Common pitfalls: The value is null or undefined due to earlier workflow errors Case mismatches ("Yes" vs "yes") Type mismatches (3 as number vs "3" as string) Forgotten or outdated conditions

➡️ Best Practice: Always enable the “Fallback” option and connect it to an Error or Notify node. This ensures misrouted executions don't silently fail — they alert you instead.

Protect your workflow logic, and save yourself hours of debugging. 🛠️

🚧 Reminder

If you run this workflow it fails by design — this is the intended behaviour as explained above. Change the Dummy Data Node to one of the valid values to make it succeed.