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Actions do the actual work in a workflow: API calls, transformations, notifications, flow control, and integrations. Use this action when your workflow needs to perform an operation, call an external service, or transform data for downstream nodes.

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When To Use

  • Normalize hostnames/labels before API updates.
  • Sanitize user-provided strings for reporting output.

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Configuration Checklist

  1. Set input string and define transformation pipeline.
  2. Apply operations like trim/replace/case conversion.
  3. Validate output before using in strict APIs.
  4. Pass cleaned value to downstream actions.

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Inputs

  • Required node.data metadata: uiId, componentId, and operation (for actions that define an operation).
  • Action-specific configuration fields from the node editor.
  • Upstream context values from triggers or previous nodes (for example trigger.* or prior action outputs).

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Outputs

  • Adds action result data to the workflow context for downstream nodes.
  • May produce external side effects (API updates, notifications, scripts, SSH commands, etc.).
  • Can emit structured values consumed by conditions or subsequent actions.

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Failure Modes

  • Missing required configuration or invalid parameter values.
  • Missing/invalid context variable references from upstream nodes.
  • External dependency failures (HTTP errors, auth failures, timeouts, rate limits).
  • Payload validation/parsing errors during request or response handling.

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Best Practices

  • Prefer small, composable actions over one large action with many responsibilities.