# Replay a recorded recipe of steps

Control / subflow

A variant of [Call a reusable workflow](https://meridian.online/operations/call-a-reusable-workflow).

Apply a saved sequence of preparation steps or recorded commands to the current data.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/call-a-reusable-workflow/replay-a-recorded-recipe>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet; it would live in how a Protocol runs. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#call-a-reusable-workflow)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Azure Data Factory: [`Power Query activity`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-power-query-activity) (read 2026-09-27)
- AWS Glue: [`Data preparation recipe`](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/glue-studio-data-preparation.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Apply…`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/running#reusing-operations) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Extract…`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/running#reusing-operations) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tDataprepRun`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/data-preparation/data-preparation-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- VisiData: [`exec-<macroname>`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/macros.py#L150) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`macro-record`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/macros.py#L241) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`macro-sheet`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/macros.py#L242) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`replay-all`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/cmdlog.py#L484) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`replay-row`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/cmdlog.py#L483) (read 2026-09-23)
