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.Documentation Index
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When To Use
- Fail fast when validation or prechecks do not pass.
- Mark workflow complete after final success notification.
Configuration Checklist
- Add Terminate where the workflow should stop explicitly.
- Choose final status (
completedorfailed). - Optionally set context fields used by reporting/response.
- Use in both happy and error paths for predictable endings.
Inputs
- Required
node.datametadata:uiId,componentId, andoperation(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).
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.
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.
Best Practices
- Prefer small, composable actions over one large action with many responsibilities.