Can a Workflow be Run Without Triggering Actions Before Deployment?

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Is there any way to run a workflow once before deploying it but preventing the actions?
I want to do that because before deploying it it require to run once in order to make it fresh but one of the step is sending around 300 messages so I don’t want to trigger this action.

Unless there’s another way to do that.

Hi , I not sure I understand your usecase. Would you mind elaborate by giving more example?

Sure but first let me understand something.

If I build a workflow or edit an existing one than do I need to run it once before deploying it?

I think you can deploy it whenever you’d like . Have you tried to deploy it?

Yes I could do that but wanted o make sure that this is the right way

If this is ok then everything is ok

I think it’s okay if you are sure that it works

Ok then you can ignore my question thanks