Triggers Triggers “listen” for events in your connected apps to initiate workflow automations. There are a variety of ways to kick-off workflows. Standard Occasional Unique SaaS service trigger Webhook trigger Form trigger Events from your Cloud app proactively send out Webhooks allow you to catch callouts for any Create custom web forms and trigger your a signal to your General Automation Platform service that offers to send a signal to a custom workflows upon their submission. when data changes. URL. Callable trigger Manual trigger Scheduled trigger Callable triggers break up a workflow and Test your workflow at your convenience by Grab data from a service at a specified time or call them from another workflow. This feature clicking a “run” button. interval. Some platforms will enforce limits on how enables users to build more complex workflows regularly a schedule runs while others have no and reuse one workflow across many workflows. limits. Data formatting Data formatting tools help users transform data across systems that have different formatting requirements. Standard Occasional Unique Text formatting Math Crypto formatting Filter, format, and transform strings. Run basic arithmetic on number values in your workflow. Encrypt and hash data, so you know it’s safe. Data and time formatting List formatting Object formatting When different apps use different date Retrieve data and manipulate items in a list with simply Easily extract data from any object. formats, you can too. named operations. 28
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