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Turn ideas into action with your first automation and essential building techniques
By Jamie and 4 others5 authors39 articles
Introduction
Learn the basics of building in Tines Stories
- Build your first Tines StoryInstructions on how to build your first story in Tines.
- Importing and exporting storiesLearn how to import and export your stories in Tines.
- Managing your storiesManaging your stories in Tines.
- Mastering the fundamentalsMaster the fundamentals in Tines.
- Monitoring actionsMonitoring and alerting on failed actions in Tines
Working in Tines Stories
Guides and walk throughs for various tasks and use cases
- Change control and story versioningSafely experiment with ideas for improvements with change control
- How to manage folder structure in TinesManaging folders in Tines
- Story performance and executionUnderstand how your stories perform in Tines
- Story outputs and valuesUnderstand story outputs and values in Tines
- How to use webhooksUnderstand how to create, test and access webhook data
- Send to storySend events to other stories in Tines
- How to configure an HTTP request in TinesConfiguring an HTTP request action
- How to use cURL to TinesUsing cURL to Tines
- Use the event transform actionUnderstanding and setting up event transform action in Tines.
- Using explode and implodeLearn how to use explode and implode in the event transform action
- Data type conversionLearn some tips for converting data in Tines
- Date and time operationsLearn how to convert date and time in Tines
- Using the send email actionLearn how to use the send email action in Tines.
- Using loop in TinesUsing Loop in Tines
- Using groupsOrganize your actions in Tines with groups
- Integrating Slack with TinesIntegrate incoming Slack events into your story using a Tines webhook.
- Integrating Microsoft Teams with TinesA guide for Tines users to create apps using the Developer Portal app and the Azure Portal
- Story toolbarThe story toolbar is where all actions, tools and templates are found in Tines.
- Building Apps in Tines
Building best practices
Master the fundamentals of effective workflow design and story construction
- Best practices for security and monitoringIdentify common best practices for securing your Tines tenant.
- Best practices for building and maintaining storiesIdentify common best practices for managing your Tines stories.
- Best practices for change controlIdentify common best practices for change control in Tines.
- Migrating stories from non-production to production tenantsHow to migrate Tines stories to production tenants.
- Send to Story Best Practice: “One In, One Out”Implementing send to stories with "one in, one out"
- Webhook Best Practice: Configuring Names and PathsEnsuring your workflows are maintainable and easy to track.
- Choosing the right function: Best practice guideA guide on choosing the correct function to use in your Tines story
- Error handling: Best practice guideThis guide will help you set up your stories to best handle errors in Tines
FAQs
Answers to common questions from Tines Stories users
- Encoding UTF8 on action runCould not create event – PG::CharacterNotInRepertoire: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8" error
- Is it possible to create a password-protected file within Tines?Creating files in TInes
- Condition FAQsFAQs about the condition action type
- HTTP request FAQsFAQs about the HTTP request action type
- Functions FAQFAQs about using functions in Tines.
- Event transform action FAQsFAQs about the event transform action type
- Event FAQsFAQs about events in your Tines story