A Simple Workflow

Median exercise time: 02 min 38 sec

The best way to dive in is to start building! Let’s create a simple workflow in 5 short steps.▶️ Perfer to watch a video? Here's a 52 second video that covers this walkthrough.

Authorize a messaging app

Go to the connections screen, search for your messaging app, click Connect, and follow the popup wizard.

In my example, I will authorize Discord.

Create a simple workflow

Go to the workflows screen, create a new workflow, and you'll see a blank canvas:

1. You will notice that there is an empty step already on the canvas. Let's get started. On the right hand side, search for your messaging app (I’m using Discord), select it, and choose the Send Message action.

2. Now, configure the Send Message action by double clicking the step app icon and selecting the channel and entering your message. Then, click Submit.

3. Great. Now press the play button at the bottom.

Pretty simple, right? Let's add another step.4. Let’s add custom data to the workflow. Open the Dev Tools menu from the bottom dock, select the custom variables action, drag it before the Discord step on the canvas, and configure it with your message and label.

5. Next, link the steps by dragging from the custom data step’s output to the Discord input. Then, select the Discord step, remove the message text, click the data selector, and choose the data from the previous step as shown in the screenshot below.

6. Finally, select the dropdown next to the play button in the dock and select the custom data step.

7. Press the run button! 😃