Overview
Introduction
Actions are the core component of Tines and are the building blocks of automation stories. Actions can be configured to perform a variety of tasks, for example: receiving alerts from 3rd-party systems, sending/receiving emails, and interacting with REST APIs. They receive and emit events, and can run on a schedule or upon receiving an event.
Action Types
There are seven types of actions. Each action type is designed to perform a specific action. Each action type can receive and emit events to other action types. The action types and a brief description of their function is shown below, for a detailed description of each action, see their dedicated article.
Action Type | Function |
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Email Action | The Email action sends emails to recipients specified in the action options |
Event Transformation Action | The Event Transformation action has several modes that modify the contents of received Events |
HTTP Request Action | The HTTP Request action sends HTTP requests using a variety of Methods to a specified url |
IMAP Action | The IMAP action emits Events when it detects new emails on an IMAP server |
Trigger Action | The Trigger action compares the contents of a field from an incoming Event with predefined rules, when the rules match, an Event emit is triggered |
Webhook Action | The Webhook action will emit Events it receives through Webhooks (HTTP callbacks) |
Send to Story Action | The Send to Story action sends events to another Tines story (the sub-story). After the sub-story has completed its action, the Send to Story action will emit an event. |