When you add an action to your flow, you'll see a set of fields where you can specify
data that will help perform that action. Based on the type of action, you can specify text values in
the fields, select mapped fields from previous nodes in the flow to use as input, apply JSONata
expressions to transform the input or output data, apply filters, and configure error handling. You
can also define your own data properties and expose them as custom fields, and can switch to
advanced mode editing for enhanced capabilities.
Note: Most applications or APIs enable you to perform the basic create,
retrieve, update, or delete (CRUD) actions on their objects.
For example, you can create leads or contacts in CRM applications such as Insightly or SugarCRM,
retrieve records from database systems such as IBM Db2 or Oracle Database, or invoke POST operations
on an API. Other applications can, however, contain specialized actions to suit their function. For
example, a file management application such as SFTP provides a rename action for files
and folders, and IBM Watson Tone Analyzer provides a Get tone analysis action to identify the tone of text, such as to perform sentiment analysis on new Salesforce case. For more information about how CRUD
actions work in App Connect, see CRUD actions.
to your flow, you'll see a set of fields where you can specify data that will help perform that
action. Based on the type of action, you can specify text values in the fields, select mapped fields
from previous nodes in the flow to use as input, apply JSONata expressions to transform the input or
output data, apply filters, and configure error handling. You can also define your own data
properties and expose them as custom fields, and can switch to advanced mode editing for enhanced
capabilities.
For some action types, you also need to select values for some configuration options and ensure
that prerequisites are met in the source application itself. For example, to add an action to create
a new message in Slack, you'll need to select the name of a Slack channel or user where you want to
post the message, and therefore need the channel or user to exist in Slack before you can configure
the action in your flow.
Figure 1. New Slack / Create message action, showing the configuration field to select a channel
or user to post messages to
