Actions

We’ve already created actions before, but they had all been rendered for us. We haven’t taken a deeper dive into them yet. This is the time to do so and start understanding actions better as we’ll start modifying and creating our actions now.

Actions are basically the backend logic of your application, so where normally a programmer would write backend code to support their application, you can do this with the Betty Blocks actions. Actions are made to automate processes and provide logic in your application. The logic is executed when certain events are triggered: a user clicks a button or sets the timer for some event to happen at an exact time. You can create your own workflow in the action builder by adding action steps. Action steps will serve as a logical construction, as the events will be carried out on conditions that you set yourself.

All the basic steps you would like to do with actions are there by default, such as creating a new record...