What the data for this category looks like
Precious metals research report data primarily comes from brokerage industry research reports, futures exchange market data APIs, and spot market quotation platforms. There are two update cycles: brokerage reports are mostly updated before market open or after market close on trading days, while spot and futures market data updates in real time during trading hours. Typical document structures include core investment theses, product quotations (such as Au9999, Ag(T+D)), open interest data, supply and demand analysis, and policy commentary. Fields include product code, latest price, price change percentage, open interest volume, and more. Units include grams, kilograms, ounces, tons, and some reports mix different units for data labeling.
How These Characteristics Create Constraints for Workflow Orchestration
The varied update rhythms of precious metals research report data require workflows to support both scheduled triggers for post-market report retrieval and real-time triggers for sudden market retrieval. Unmatched units across different data sources require a unified conversion step within the workflow to prevent unit confusion in retrieval results. Precious metals market data has strict timeliness requirements, so the workflow’s retrieval time range must be precisely limited to the last 72 hours to avoid including outdated data. Some data sources require access via custom API interfaces, so workflows must support calling external code functions to adapt to different interface authentication and data parsing logic.
How to Set Configurations
| Configuration Item | Recommended Value | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
retrieval count | Top 10-15 entries | Precious metals research reports have high topic concentration. Too many retrieved entries will cause context overflow, while too few will fail to cover complete analytical logic |
similarity threshold | 0.75-0.85 | Precious metals research reports have strong topic relevance. An overly high threshold will miss relevant reports on niche product categories, while an overly low threshold will introduce irrelevant content |
chunk length | 800-1200 characters | Market data paragraphs in precious metals research reports are short. Long chunks will break data connections, while short chunks will increase context processing overhead |
PARSE_FILE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS | 300 seconds | Research reports include multiple market attachments and structured data, which take longer to parse. The default timeout duration is insufficient for complete parsing |
WORKFLOW_TRIGGER_TYPE | Scheduled trigger + manual trigger | Precious metals data has dual requirements for post-market scheduled updates and temporary sudden market conditions. Supporting both trigger modes covers all scenarios |
CUSTOM_CODE_TIMEOUT | 600 seconds | Exchange APIs need to be called to complete unit conversion and data alignment. External interface calls take longer, so sufficient timeout duration must be reserved |
The parameter values provided on this page are common recommended starting points for configuration. Actual values are affected by material form, data volume, and business rules. Specific issues require individual analysis, and it is recommended to test on your own samples before finalizing settings.
Three Common Misconfigurations
- Symptom: The workflow returns a
408 Request Timeouterror during runtime, and logs show the custom code node timed out. Cause: TheCUSTOM_CODE_TIMEOUTparameter was not adjusted to a sufficient duration, causing the call to the precious metals exchange API to exceed the default timeout limit. - Symptom: The form input node in a nested workflow still displays a pop-up window and cannot be hidden in the parent workflow. Cause: The "Hide pop-up window in parent workflow" configuration option was not enabled on the form input node, causing the pop-up window logic to fail in nested scenarios.
- Symptom: Retrieval results show price data in both grams and ounces, and cannot be displayed uniformly. Cause: No custom code node was added to the workflow to complete unit conversion, and unit differences across data sources were not addressed.
How to Verify Your Configuration is Correct
- Trigger the scheduled workflow, review the returned research report data, and confirm that it includes the latest precious metals market content from the last 72 hours, with all data units unified to the specified format.
- Call the custom code node to test the interface, verify that it can correctly retrieve the real-time price of Au9999 and complete unit conversion from ounces to grams.
- Adjust the
retrieval counttoTop 5 entries, trigger a test retrieval, confirm that the number of returned results matches the configured value, and that logs display the correct retrieval parameters. - Start a nested workflow test, submit form input, and confirm that no additional input pop-up window appears in the parent workflow, with form data properly passed to the child workflow.
Question material comes from public community discussions. Configuration values are common starting points and should be measured against your own samples. Verified on 2026-09-14.