Betty Blocks

Find out how to create logical workflows in your application.

Next-gen actions

Main characteristics and use of actions for building an application.

What are actions?

The most recent version of actions within Betty Blocks, in this article we’ll explain what they are an why you should use them.

The next-generation actions

Actions explained

Learn about the various action triggers and how to use them.

Action trigger reference

This article describes the functionality of action steps presented on the Betty Blocks platform.

Action step functionality

Taking a look at what you can do with the various variables within the action builder.

Variables

References

Basic information for building an action in your application.

Building an action

The way of using common expressions through the next-generation action step.

Expressions in next-gen actions

This article will cover the steps to create a connection to your iManage models and use these in a Betty Blocks application.

Creating an iManage integration

Trigger actions in your application automatically at a specified time.

Creating a scheduled action

Find out how to run a test in your application’s actions and undertake debugging with the help of the log message step functionality.

Testing and debugging an action

Building actions

getting the most out of your data calculations

Next-gen expression step

Creating multiple records 1-by-1 can take up some time, with the bulk insert you can create them all in one go.

Using the mass mutate step: insert

Need some text to be lowercased, capitalized, or anything similar to this? The transform text step has you covered.

Transform text step

A use case overview of the update many records step to discover its functionality within a platform.

Update many records step

In your action flow you might want to stop and the action and raise an error to inform the user, this step has you covered.

Raise error step

How and why you should use this custom step from the block store.

Generate UUID step

Learn what a random hex is and how you can use this functionality in your applications.

Generate random hex step

Need some dummy data for your application? JSON placeholder makes displaying dummy data in your application a breeze.

Applying the '{JSON} placeholder' data source & action steps

Learn how to generate Word documents with a template that uses data from your data model.

Document generation step

Find out how to install the sub-action step and how to use it, and why you should use it.

Sub-action step

Assign a new or different value to a text variable.

(Re)assign text variable step

This article explains how to generate a PDF file in your application using the block store's ‘Generate PDF’ action step.

PDF-generator step

Best practices for using the log message step when debugging the application’s action flow.

Log message step

Set conditions with filters for your action flow.

Condition step

Learn how to use the send e-mail via SMTP function to send e-mails in your Betty Blocks application

Send e-mail via SMTP step

Want to use some data from a place that isn't your own application, the HTTP(S) step has you covered.

HTTP(S) action step

Want to adjust a date or a time by a year, a month, or maybe just a few minutes, in this article you'll learn how to use this custom step.

Date/time offset step

Using action steps

Quick article that shows you how you can test your actions using GraphQL instead of doing it via the front end of your application.

Testing your actions using GraphQL

In this article, we'll explain how you can use an API or webservice to trigger the execution of a next-gen action.

Triggering next-gen actions via an API call

A use case example that explains how to create a specific action trigger and set up a sub-action before the primary action is processed.

Sub-action used as before trigger

Call a classic action via the HTTP step to fall back to any functionality that is missing in the next-generation actions.

Call classic actions via next-generation actions

Discover the power behind the the object property allowing users to save multiple values.