Automations
The Automations page lists every automation. It is where you create one, find one, open it in the flow editor, and act on several at once—enabling, disabling, archiving, exporting, and importing.
The table
One row per automation, newest change first by default.
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Checkbox | Selects the row for a bulk action. The checkbox in the header selects every row on the current page. |
| Name | The automation's name, linking into the flow editor. An automation you never named reads "Untitled". An archived row carries an Archived badge beside its name. |
| Status | One pill for how the automation behaves: Live, Dry Run, Disabled, or Archived. It folds together whether the automation is turned on and which run mode it uses—green runs for real, amber runs with its effects held back, gray does not run at all. An archived automation always reads Archived, whatever its other settings say, because it cannot run. |
| By | Avatars for who created the automation and who last changed it. Point at them for both names. |
| Updated | When the automation was last changed. |
| Runs | How many times the automation has run. Click the count to open its run history. |
| Last Run | A status-colored square and a relative time for the most recent run, linking to that run. Point at it for a summary card of the run's status, mode, and duration. A dash means it has never run. |
If you are approaching one of your limits—how many automations may be enabled at once, or how much may run in a day—a banner says so above the table.
Finding an automation
The controls above the table narrow the list. Everything here is reflected in the page's address, so a filtered view can be bookmarked or shared.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Search automations | Matches the automation's name and its description. |
| Status | All Status, Enabled, or Disabled. |
| Show Archived | Adds archived automations to the list. They are hidden otherwise. |
| Sort | Last Updated (Newest), Last Updated (Oldest), Name (A-Z), or Name (Z-A). |
| Page controls | Move between pages, and choose Show 10, Show 20, or Show 50 rows at a time. |
When nothing matches, the page names what narrowed the list—your search, your filters, or both—and offers a single link to clear exactly that.
Creating and opening
- + New Automation opens the flow editor on a new, empty automation. Nothing is created until you save it.
- Clicking a Name opens that automation in the editor. An archived one opens read-only, with a banner explaining why.
- Import brings in an automation exported from this or another workspace. See Importing an automation.
For two other ways to start without an empty canvas, see Build and Templates.
Acting on several at once
Select one or more rows and a bar of bulk actions appears above the table. Each action is offered only when it would actually change something about the selection, and carries a badge counting the rows it would affect—so a selection of disabled automations offers Enable but not Disable, a selection of archived ones offers only Restore, Delete Permanently, and Export, and a mixed selection may offer nothing at all.
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Export | Downloads the selected automations as a single file. Available for any selection, archived rows included. |
| Enable | Turns on the selected automations, so triggers that fire on their own can start them. Skips archived rows, which cannot run. If the limit on enabled automations is reached, the result message says how many could not be turned on. |
| Disable | Turns the selected automations off. Skips archived rows. |
| Archive | Moves the selected automations to the archive. An archived automation stops running immediately. |
| Restore | Brings archived automations back out of the archive. |
| Delete Permanently | Deletes archived automations for good. Offered only for archived rows, which is what makes permanent deletion two deliberate steps—archive, then delete—and it asks you to confirm first. |
A message above the table reports what each action changed, including anything it could not change and why.
Exporting and importing
An export is a portable definition of an automation, stripped of anything specific to this workspace. Secret values are never included—only their names, so you know what to re-enter on the other side.
- One automation—select its row and click Export, or use Export in the editor's more-options menu. The file is named after the automation.
- Several together—select the rows and click Export. They come down as one file, named for the export date, and automations that call one another are rewired to reference each other's imported copies rather than the originals. Exporting the same set twice produces the same file, so an export is safe to keep under version control.
Import accepts a file upload or pasted JSON, and takes either shape—one automation or many. Each one is brought in as a new, disabled automation, and a summary page then lists, per automation, what needs attention before it can run: secrets to re-enter, and any connections or references that do not resolve in this workspace. Open Automation on a card takes you into the editor to finish it. See Exporting automations in bulk.
Related
- Building automations—the flow editor you land in from here.
- Monitoring and history—run history behind the Runs and Last Run columns.
- Run modes—what Live and Dry Run mean in the Status column.
- Version history—the record of every save, on the automation itself.