- unmigrated-wiki-markup
Documentation for Automation with AWS AWS 1.1 – other releases are available in the Automation with AWS Documentation Directory.
View
or visit the current documentation home.
Injecting contextual entity variables into action payloads
You can inject contextual workflow entities via variables into the remote action payload template.
On this page:
Related pages:
Entity Variables
You can inject contextual variables with workflow entities into the remote action payload templates.
Syntax
There are two different syntactical notations to refer to variables:
Shorthand notation
The shorthand notation is $entity.key / $entity.key.subkey – using this shorter notation is usually preferable for breviety, and also required within the Automate with AWS post function.
Formal notation
The formal notation is ${entity.key} / ${entity.key.subkey} – using this longer notation is optional in general, but not supported within the Automate with AWS post function.
Entities
The currently available entities are:
Actions
You can inject contextual variables into the following actions: