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📚 Add documentation about usage of executeSingle

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@ -135,6 +135,15 @@ Method get called when the workflow gets executed
- `execute`: Executed once no matter how many items - `execute`: Executed once no matter how many items
- `executeSingle`: Executed once for every item - `executeSingle`: Executed once for every item
By default always `execute` should be used especially when creating a
third-party integration. The reason for that is that it is way more flexible
and allows to, for example, return a different amount of items than it received
as input. This is very important when a node should query data like return
all users. In that case, does the node normally just receive one input-item
but returns as many as users exist. So in doubt always `execute` should be
used!
**Trigger node** **Trigger node**
Method gets called once when the workflow gets activated. It can then trigger Method gets called once when the workflow gets activated. It can then trigger