About Workflows
Learn about workflows, their components, and how they automate tasks across multiple systems through a centralized platform.
How this Helps
Workflows can be shared with users and groups within the same workspace, facilitating collaborative automation and task management. To share workflows, you can add users and groups to the relevant workspaces.
A workflow is a sequence of automated steps containing actions that are by events, schedules, or manual input. Workflows, the backbone of automation in Blink, enable you to complete a specific task or process without manual intervention. They enable users to automate tasks across multiple systems, platforms and tools through a centralized platform.
Blink workflows can handle various levels of complexity:
- Simple, single-step processes such as for data validation
- Complex, multi-system operations involving multiple services and cross-platform automations that bridge different technologies
- Conditional steps that adapt based on inputs or results
Workflow Architecture
The following image illustrates the workflow hierarchy in Blink:
These components are as described in the following table:
| Component | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Triggers | Events and their conditions that initiate a workflow. Blink workflows can be initiated through three primary types of triggers: on-demand, event-based, and scheduled. |
| 2 | Steps and Actions | Steps are individual units within a workflow, each designed to perform a specific task. Actions are the functional components within each step, executing tasks based on configured parameters. |
| 3 | Flow controls | Flow controls define how a workflow proceeds from one step to another based on conditions, loops, or branching logic. These include if conditions, switch statements, and loops that determine execution paths dynamically based on input values, action results, or external data. |
| 4 | Outputs | The final results or data produced by a workflow or any of its steps. Outputs can be used as inputs in subsequent workflows, stored for reporting, or sent as notifications to relevant stakeholders. Outputs can also be shared with users who triggered the workflow on-demand, or saved as part of a file for future use. |
You can utilize the Builder Copilot to build new workflows and update existing ones efficiently, leveraging AI-powered automation to streamline workflow design.
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