circular loop in journey canvas

[Pradeep-Jaiswal]

how do we create a circular loop in journey canvas , if i want to connect one of the touch point back into another condition in the previous path (either at beginning point or intermediate point)? i have attached a screenshot for reference. I would like to avoid creating the condition again and find optimal way to build this in canvas. Even if we allow re-entry it would go through all check again. I m trying to think how to skip those check and directly connect to required node. Not thinking of splitting the journey and use jump activity here 

[SatheeskannaK]

@Pradeep-Jaiswal Loop patterns are not supported in AJO. The choices you mentioned can be pursued.

[Pradeep-Jaiswal]

further investigation i found that

Currently creating circular loops in the Journey Canvas is not supported. This is enforced at canvas level due to reasons listed below. 

The execution engine is built around a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) model: profiles move forward through nodes; they don’t orbit around them.

Allowing authors to connect any node back to a previous node creates several hard‑to‑control risks:

• Infinite or near‑infinite loops if the exit condition is incomplete, misconfigured, or data doesn’t change as expected.

• Reporting and Metrics data would be skewed/inaccurate

Unbounded dwell times for profiles inside a journey, which breaks assumptions around:

• Global journey timeout

• Re‑entrance rules

• Capacity planning and throttling

This is called the internal loop design as “forbidden patterns” (single-node loops on conditions/waits/end, loops within loops, entangled loops, etc.) because these patterns are often easy to misconfigure.