What the data for this category looks like
The data sources for the consumer building materials financing daily report include daily financing filing data from building material industry associations, corporate financing disclosure platforms of local financial regulatory authorities, and upstream supplier financing registration systems of core supply chain enterprises. The update schedule is that full financing data from the previous day is updated every early morning. Each financing record includes the full name of the financing entity, corresponding consumer building materials category, financing amount, financing term, financing method, credit granting institution, release date, and affiliated administrative region. For field units, financing amount is uniformly in ten thousand yuan, financing term uses natural days or natural months as units, and the release date follows the YYYY-MM-DD format.
What constraints these characteristics impose on the "tool calling and plugins" link
The multi-source data feature requires plugins to support batch calling of multiple API endpoints and result merging, with configuration of data source priority and deduplication rules. The daily update schedule requires plugin scheduled trigger tasks to match the data update window, to avoid sending requests before data is generated. The presence of segmented category fields requires plugin input parameters to support filtering by consumer building materials category to narrow the data scope. The unified field units require plugins to have built-in unit conversion logic to unify the amount units of different data sources to ten thousand yuan. The full name format requirement for financing entities requires plugin output fields to standardize enterprise name formats to avoid ambiguity in subsequent processing.
How to Set Configurations
| Configuration Item | Recommended Value | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
plugin_api_timeout | 300 seconds | The data source APIs for consumer building materials financing daily reports typically respond within 2-3 minutes; requests exceeding this time will likely time out |
plugin_request_batch_size | 10 items per request | The amount of data pulled per batch adapts to workflow memory usage, avoiding overly large single requests |
workflow_loop_array_type | array<object> | Each record in the financing daily report is a structured object, and complete fields must be retained for subsequent processing |
plugin_auth_type | API_KEY | Most building material financing data platforms use API key authentication, which supports authentication configuration for multiple data sources |
plugin_output_filter_fields | Financing Subject, Category, Quota, Release Date | Only retain core fields to simplify context input for subsequent AI conversations |
plugin_retry_count | 2 retries | Address temporary network fluctuations of some data sources, avoiding task interruption caused by a single failed request |
The parameter values provided on this page are all common recommendations used as starting points for configuration. Actual values are affected by material form, data volume and business rules. Specific issues require case-by-case analysis. It is recommended to test on your own samples before finalizing the settings.
Three Common Mistakes
- Symptom: After adding a custom plugin to the workflow, the input and output parameter panel has no content, and no error logs are displayed. Cause: The JSON Schema format of input and output parameters was not correctly declared in the
plugin_schemafield of the plugin configuration. This issue is particularly common for the platform version v4.8.20-fix2. - Symptom: When running a loop task, array elements cannot be traversed correctly, and the AI conversation does not receive individual element data. Cause: The input parameter of the loop body is configured as
array<string>, but the elements of the financing daily report are structured objects, and the type mismatch causes parsing failure. - Symptom: When calling an external data source plugin, an error of the type
Failed to get the VQD for queryis returned. Cause: The data source API requested by the plugin did not correctly configure authentication parameters in the request header, or the query parameter format did not meet the requirements of the data source, resulting in an authentication or format error returned by the interface.
How to Confirm the Configuration Is Correct
- Manually trigger plugin calls, check whether the fields of the returned result match the configured
plugin_output_filter_fieldsto confirm that the filtering logic takes effect. - Configure a scheduled trigger task, wait until the data update window ends, and check the task logs to confirm that the plugin initiated the request at the specified time and returned non-empty data.
- Test the loop running function, traverse the financing daily report array, and check whether each loop node receives complete single-record fields.
- Call the authentication interface to verify the plugin's authentication configuration, confirm that a 200 status code is returned, and there are no authentication-related errors.
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.