Workflows

Workflows are the Module Maker drawn as a picture. You put a trigger on the canvas, wire it to checks and actions, and the bot follows the wires every time the trigger happens. A check splits the path in two, every action can go one way when it works and another when it does not, and you can watch a test run light up the path step by step before anything goes live.

Build one#

1. 1
   Start. Press New workflow, or pick a template (they are listed below). A template opens as a draft with the channels and roles it still needs marked in red.
2. 2
   Add steps. Drag a step from the left onto the canvas, or click it to drop it next to the step you have selected, already wired to its first free output. The search box (press /) finds a step by name.
3. 3
   Wire it. Drag from an output dot on the right of a step to the input dot on the left of another. A wire that would make a loop, or lead into a trigger, is refused. Click a wire and press Delete to remove it.
4. 4
   Set it up. Click a step to open its settings on the right. Any text box with a { } button takes variables. Messages can use a saved embed from the Embed Builder.
5. 5
   Check it. The badge at the top says Valid, or how many things need fixing. Broken steps have a red ring, and an output that must lead somewhere has a red dot. Click the badge for the list; click a line to jump to the step.
6. 6
   Test it. Test run fires the trigger once with you as the member and animates the path. It is a dry run unless you switch that off and pick a test channel: then messages and replies post in that channel and roles change on you for real.
7. 7
   Publish. Save keeps a draft. Publish makes it live and keeps a version you can bring back from Workflow settings. Editing a live workflow changes the draft only, until you publish again. A button or menu trigger posts its message in the channel when you publish.

Keyboard#

Node reference#

A form can only open as the first answer to a click, a menu pick or a slash command, within 3 seconds, so keep Show form right after the trigger or a check. A menu question in a form can list roles, and Add role or Remove role can take the roles picked in that question. Branch runs its paths one after the other; Merge lets what comes after it run once however many paths reach it.

Variables#

Type them in any text, or insert them with the { } button next to the box.

Set variable keeps a value per member ({user.var.name}) or for the whole server ({var.name}), set, added to or taken from. A variable nobody has set yet reads 0. Compare variable checks one against a number or a word.

Templates#

Plans#

The editor, test runs and run history are free on every server. The plan sets how many workflows run at once and how big they are.

A server with a live Custom Bot Instance gets the Server Elite limits.

Safety rails#

Share a workflow#

Workflow settings has Export (a JSON file) and Duplicate. Import on the Workflows page takes an exported file from any server; channels, roles and members that are not in your server are left empty for you to pick, so nothing points somewhere it should not.