Building actions

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Before we start, it is also important to get familiar with the different types of HTTP request methods which power all actions.

Once you have figured out how to connect to your applications, you can build actions for your connectors. Actions give your connectors functionality and purpose, without them, your connectors can't really do much. In this segment, we go through the building of various types of actions:

• Creating objects
• Updating objects
• Get (Retrieving) objects
• Download files/documents
• Upload files/documents
• Adding custom actions
• Multi-step actions that work with Asynchronous APIs
• Multi-threaded actions which support sending multiple requests

ACTION TIMEOUT

SDK actions have a 180 second timeout limit.

You can use the checkpoint! method with file streaming actions to transfer files that exceed the timeout limit. The checkpoint! method checks the duration of an action's execution. If it exceeds 120 seconds, Workato refreshes the timeout with a slight delay to ensure fair processing.

General structure of actions

Refer to the actions key section in the SDK reference for full details.