is there a concept of conditional steps? the use case in the quickstart would be after step 1, only run step 2

explore-data.ipynb

if some condition X is true, else if condition Y is true run

pre-processing.ipynb

This would be easiest by passing in information that you branch on in the step itself by using

orchest.output

and

orchest.get_inputs()

hmm so you're advising to still run every single step, but you would just have conditional entry and based on that whether to run the rest of the script/notebook or not

Yes. So the step would basically be a no-op. We might add more native branching logic in the near future. That’s more practical if the branching is more extensive (e.g. there’s a whole branch - with multiple child nodes - of the DAG that should be conditional)