Stories are a collection of interconnected actions working towards a singular goal. Think of them like automated use-cases, or playbooks. For example, you might have a Phishing story, an infected endpoint story, or an employee onboarding story.
To begin your first story, simply drag an actions or a template onto your storyboard and connect them like this:
You can also create your first story by importing one from our Story Library from right inside Tines, like this:
Another way to get started with stories is with the default stories available to you when you first create your Tines tenant:
The Simple Story: A short story that demonstrates how actions and events interact to automate workflows.
Simple Story - VPN Notification: This story demonstrates how automated threat detection and response can be performed on corporate VPN connections.
Analyze URL in URLScan: This story demonstrates how Tines actions can be used to analyze suspicious URLs.
So you can better understand what a completed story might look like, here is an example of a story designed to automate threat detection and response of corporate VPN connections:
When you start creating a new story, it is unpublished by default. An unpublished story is similar to a draft. It will be restricted in that it will only run while you're working on it. Unpublished stories do not count toward your stories quota.
👉 For more detailed docs on how stories work, see here.
Backing up your Tines stories
You can export your stories from Tines, which will be stored in a JSON format.
For more information on exporting stories, see here.
You can also use the Tines API to export stories. For more information on exporting stories using the TInes API, see here.
Here are some stories that can be used to back up, export, and import Tines stories.