An action is a node that operates on the files or data it receives and passes the result to the next node. Every node after the trigger is either an action or a control. Actions copy, move, delete, convert, package, encrypt, or send files, write metadata, read text out of a file, or run a command on your own server. Controls route and reshape items, and they do not change files or send them anywhere.

An action processes every item it receives. What an action accepts and what it passes on determine where it can be placed in the graph.

Action	Accepts	Passes on
Create Folder	File or data	One item for each folder it creates
Copy File	File, or data written to a `.json` file	One item for each destination written
Move File	File	One item for each destination
Delete File	File	One data item recording the deletion
Import File	File or data	One item for the imported file
Run Sync	File or data	The same items, unchanged
Send via AS2	File, or data written to a `.json` file	The same items, unchanged
Send Email	File or data	The same items, unchanged
Agent Compute	File, or data written to a `.json` file	One data item with the command's result
Set Metadata	File	The same file, with its custom metadata replaced
Extract	File	The same file, with the extracted text and metadata added to its attributes
Convert Document	File	One converted file
Convert Image	File	One converted file
Zip	File, or data written to a `.json` file	One archive for all incoming items
Unzip	File	One item for each extracted file
Encrypt With GPG	File, or data written to a `.json` file	One encrypted file
Decrypt With GPG	File	One decrypted file

A data connection to a node that accepts only files fails at save, and the nodes that accept data by writing it to a file receive the JSON as a .json file.

Shared Settings

Every action has an Error Handling section, whose rules determine whether an item the action could not process is routed to the node's Error path, is not processed further, or fails the run. Every action also has a Return From Automation checkbox, which marks the action's output as what this Automation returns when another Automation runs it with Run Automation.

The actions that write files take a destination path, and Copy File, Move File, Convert Document, Convert Image, Zip, Unzip, Encrypt With GPG, and Decrypt With GPG take an overwrite setting that is off by default.

Copy File, Move File, and Delete File take an Exclude Pattern that removes matching files from the items the action processes, using the same syntax as the trigger's Exclude Pattern.