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Add nodes and link them

Add nodes from Add a step, link them with edges, put a node between two others, and change a node from its menu.

Steps

Open Add a step

Click the + to the right of the node your new node follows. Add a step opens and asks What happens after “Send the warning”?. A node with several ports, such as a Condition's Yes and No, has a + on each free one.

Add a step open beside the canvas, asking What happens after “Send the warning”?, with Suggested, Decide & repeat and Your data

Pick a node

Search, or open a group such as Decide & repeat or Advanced, and click the node. It lands linked to the node before it. Beta marks a service whose nodes are still in beta.

The Add a step panel with its groups: Decide & repeat with Condition, Loop and Wait, Your data, Change data and Advanced

To place a node without linking it, click Add step at the bottom of the canvas, or press Tab.

Drag from the dot on the right of one node to the dot on the left of the next. The edge stays when you let go.

An edge being drawn out of the dot on the right of Send the warning, mid-drag

Put a node in between

Point at an edge, click the + in its middle, and pick the node. To remove an edge, right-click it and choose Delete connection.

The edge between Check the site and Is it down? under the pointer, with its + in the middle

Use the node's menu

Point at a node and click the ⋯ above it, or right-click it: Open settings, Test step, Rename, Turn off, Pin output, Copy, Cut, Duplicate and Delete. Open settings, or a double-click, opens the node's dialog.

The node Check the site under the pointer, with its ⋯ menu button above it
What Turn off does

A disabled node stays on the canvas, but runs pass from the node before it straight to the node after it. Turn on brings it back.

If it did not work

  • 1 step needs attention after you add a node. Most nodes need a setting. Click the count, then Fix.
  • Turn off is greyed out. A Condition or a Switch decides where the flow goes, so it has no single path to pass through: delete it instead. Pin output is greyed out on these, on a Loop and on Start.
  • A port has no +. It already has its one edge. Put the node in between on that edge.

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