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Calling Keywords in Plans

How to properly use keywords from within a plan. Read more

Keywords

Keywords are the fundamental building blocks of Plans. This section groups the documentation related to the declaration and use of Keywords Read more

Notifications

Be notified when various events occur. Read more

Deployment

Start building your automation blocks. Read more

Controls

Controls help you design and structure your execution plans. Read more

Alerting rules

Define custom rules for alerting, notifications, and integrations with external systems Read more

Reporting

Executions reporting Read more

Reporting (legacy)

Execution reporting (legacy) Read more

Schedule executions reporting

Schedule executions reporting Read more

Keyword Configuration

Start building your automation blocks. Read more

Using variables in Plans

Variables are used throughout plans to pass information from one node to another, or to store the result of a dynamic computation. Variable types Similar to any programming language, Step supports the use of variables in Plans. The variables declared and used in a Plan are called Plan variables. A Plan variable is a container that stores a data value under a specific name. Like in classical programming languages, Step supports the following types of variables: Read more

Execution Subscriptions

Subscribe to various execution events. Read more

Plan modularity

How to build modular plans. Read more

Plans

Plan objects are containers for your automation logic. They’re implemented as a tree of nodes which can be of different types. Read more

Archiving

Executions housekeeping and advanced options Read more

Executions

Executions descriptions Read more

Visual Plan editor

Plan objects are containers for your automation logic. They’re implemented as a tree of nodes which can be of different types. Read more

Alerting and notifications

Step includes a flexible mechanism for sending notifications in tandem with the definition of Alerting Rules, allowing to define exactly which events and conditions will result in which notification being sent, with what data. Read more

Agent provisioning

Define custom rules for alerting, notifications, and integrations with external systems Read more

Advanced executions

Advanced execution options Read more

Incidents

View and analyse created incidents based on your alerting rules Read more

Plain text plans

Plan objects are containers for your automation logic. They’re implemented as a tree of nodes which can be of different types. Read more

Parameters

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Schedules

Sshedules view description Read more

Analytics

Performance dashboard for visual analytics Read more

Java Plan API

Plan objects are containers for your automation logic. They’re implemented as a tree of nodes which can be of different types. Read more

Monitoring

Monitoring view description Read more

Event Broker Monitor

If you’ve purchased the Async package or are running the Premium Enterprise version of Step, you’ll be able to monitor in real time what’s happening in the EventBroker by navigating to the EventBrokerMonitor view: The Stats tab provides global statistics on the broker, such as the current amount of messages present in it and the high mark (or water mark), oldest & youngest events, etc. The next two tabs provide users with the ability to browse and search for events, and organizes the query results either by Id or Group. Read more

Import/Export entities

You may export the following entities: Plans Keywords Parameters The functionalities are similar for all supported types of entities. Export Export a single entity Export can be performed from the related table views using the actions buttons. For plans, single entity can also be exported from the Plan editor, click on the export button as shown in the following screenshot: Export all entities of one type Step also lets you export all entities of one type. Read more

User account

User Preferences description Read more

Versioning

Restore previous versions of entities Read more

Bookmarks

Create bookmarks to easily reach frequently used pages Read more

Libraries

Contains documentation for Step libraries. Read more
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