Data pills in workflow actions

As anyone who has tried to automate a workflow will tell you, the really tough part is chaining actions so that the actions performed by different workflows (aka the "output") trigger and feed into other workflows.

We've added the capability to "feed" the output of one Azure action in a workflow to another so you can complete many steps in one go. We call this output a data pill.

This is currently available only for Azure AD and webhook actions. We're working on making this available across all of our workflow actions.

For example, let's say you're setting up a workflow to automate new hire onboarding.

• The HR team will log a request.

• A workflow to take the data in this request and automatically create a new Azure AD account for them (an action)

• You can use the data pill from the previous action to add them to the relevant Azure AD groups so they can access all the tools they need. This way, the second action only works when the first workflow action succeeds, so only the right data is added.

How to setup input-output actions

• Navigate to Settings > Your workspace > Workflows.

• Create a new workflow or click on the workflow you want to edit.

• Click on Perform action.

• Set up an Azure AD action.

• When you set up the next action, click on Insert data to see the output of the previous action that you can use as a placeholder in this action. ​ ​