Learning how a flow works
As you learned in Chapter 1, flows can have a number of components such as triggers, actions (or steps), conditions, branches, and variables. These components are arranged in a logical pattern on a design area commonly called the canvas.
The trigger is the first action in a flow. Frequently, triggers connect to resources that require authentication (such as a username and password or API key and secret). These triggers can be automated, manual, or based on a schedule. Depending on the type of trigger, you may need to pre-populate some variables or fields.Each action stores automatically its results in a series of variables called dynamic values or dynamic content. These dynamic content variables are used to pass data between steps in the flow. Depending on the output of an action, dynamic values may represent a variety of data types such as strings...
