Workflow specific actions

The workflow itself contains several built-in actions for creating custom logic, managing dependencies, and more.

General

A secondary click on an empty space of the workflow opens a menu where you can access these actions.

Hub

The Hub is a connection point to combine multiple connections into one:

Instead of this:

Wait

Add a delay into your workflow.

Condition

Create a condition based on your data to react to specific behaviors.

You can add multiple conditions to a single condition action — for example, to check the state of all devices at once.

Switch

Create simple switch functions.

Modifier

Modified workflow data values.

Add as many modifier into this action as needed,

Define the method, the data path and the value.

Copy the path directly from the data tree with a secondary click:

Learn more about the Data Tree values here.

Data Source

Create a data source object to populate the data tree with objects, elements, or parameter values.

Learn more about data sources here.

Loop

A loop will retrigger the chain for the defined number of times. The loop index can be used for further logic.

For Each

It can iterate through data tree arrays and return each element.

Example

Assume we have this data in the data tree of a workflow.

A data source - Object children list can provide this kind of project data.

The 'Success' output will now iterate through each element and return them one by one.

Please note: this screen recording uses a sleep per step of 0.4 seconds. Normally, it would iterate through all elements in just a few microseconds.

This data item (in this example, an object path) can be used to access objects and set a parameter for each one.

Example project

Please find the project within Grid Studio under the template projects.

The example project uses a list/dropdown variable as a reference.

A workflow inside this reference variable iterates through all variables within the 'Folder'.

Each variable in the folder is then set to the same dropdown state as the reference variable.

Repeat

Can be used to repeat parts of the workflow at specific time intervals.

Example

In this example, the workflow tries to turn on the projector and checks its power state. If the projector is not on, the repeat action is used to retrigger this logic for a defined number of times.

From left to right:

Projector "Power on" action.
Wait for 5 seconds.
Get the power state from the projector.
Check the state with a condition action.
If the check is failing the "Repeat" action will be triggered.
The “Repeat“ action will re-execute the entire chain until the condition is successful or the defined number of retries is reached.