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title: "Workflows"
url: https://flexie.io/resources/workflows
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# Workflows

Event-driven automation: triggers, actions and decisions, passing data between steps, parallel and tree runtime, scheduling, testing, and troubleshooting.

- [Overview](https://flexie.io/resources/workflows/overview.md): The complete guide to Flexie's automation engine. How workflows are built, how they run, and how to make them do real work reliably.
- [Actions & Decisions](https://flexie.io/resources/workflows/actions-and-decisions.md): Actions do things. Decisions choose paths. Together they are the body of every workflow. The full catalogue, the operators, the time conditions, the listeners, and the rules.
- [Building a Workflow](https://flexie.io/resources/workflows/building-a-workflow.md): Step by step, from an empty canvas to a live automation. The basics, the canvas, how steps connect into a tree, configuration, testing, and the publishing lifecycle.
- [Passing Data Between Steps](https://flexie.io/resources/workflows/passing-data-between-steps.md): How a step uses what the trigger and earlier steps produced. The __data namespace, the workflow's shared notepad, plus how listeners, the webhook action, the AI step, and Store a value all write into it.
- [Runtime, Parallel Execution & the Tree](https://flexie.io/resources/workflows/runtime-parallel-and-tree.md): What actually happens when a workflow runs. The tree, immediate vs background running, parallel branches, step timing, and how a decision splits a batch of records.
- [Scheduling, Testing & Troubleshooting](https://flexie.io/resources/workflows/scheduling-testing-troubleshooting.md): Timing controls, the test run, the activity logs, version history, and the mistakes people make most often. The page you keep open while you build, run, and debug a workflow.
- [Triggers & Sources](https://flexie.io/resources/workflows/triggers-and-sources.md): Every workflow needs a starting condition, its source. There are five sources, and choosing the right one is the single most important decision in a workflow.