A pattern for triggering many async queries

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Thanks for the above, v helpful.
One question, when triggering your example from another JavaScript query, how can I run something only if the trigger succeeds and is completed?

For example, if your code above is in a query called `triggerManyAsyncsExample', and I want to run it from another query and console log after it's finished how could I achieve that?

I attempted this with the code below, but it runs the code after triggerManyAsyncsExample.trigger() immediately regardless of the outcome of triggerManyAsyncsExample:

(async () => {
  const triggerAsyns = await triggerManyAsyncsExample.trigger();
  if (triggerAsyns == null) {
      console.log("It failed")
  }
  else{
     console.log("It worked and finished")
  }
  
})();

If I strip the (async () => {...} from your example it seems to give me the behaviour I'm after, does that make sense? So in triggerManyAsyncsExample I have the following

if (txtAddTemplateName.value) { // Only execute if form is filled in - Form validation of sorts
  const sourceid = tblSource.selectedRow.data.sourceid // Set variables
  let data1 = await qrySourceUpdate.trigger() 					       const myField = qrySourceUpdate.data.theField[0]
  let data2 = await jsSetView.trigger({additionalScope: {skipSelect: true}})	
if (data2) {
     const myField = data2.theField[0]
     return myField
   } else {
     throw new Error("Query returned no data!")
   }	
  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000))
  await jsSetSourceSelection.trigger({additionalScope: {sourceid: sourceid, assumeSameID: true}})  // Select the updated row if needed
  await jsSourceRowSelect.trigger()  // trigger subtable setups
}

Following all that I guess my question is, is the (async () => {} wrap required in a query? I get the same effect by just adding await before any ..trigger() calls from what I can tell

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