Triggers

A workflow runs when something starts it. There are three kinds of trigger:

• Schedule — run at a moment, every so often, or on calendar times.
• Webhook — run when a service sends an event to a URL made for it.
• Manual — start a run from the dashboard, or debug it from the editor.

A workflow without a trigger still runs, but only when you start it yourself.

Run settings on a trigger

Every trigger carries run settings: variables that override the workflow’s own, and the input a run starts with. The same control appears in the workflow editor, where its variables are the workflow’s own and its input is used by the next debug run only. Each placement says which lifetime it has, so the same control never quietly means two things.

A webhook’s incoming event takes precedence over the input stored on the trigger, so a payload never loses a field to saved configuration.