Data: What Moves Through the Workflow

Data is the cargo. It's what flows from the trigger, through each action, and to the final destination.

Think of it like a pizza order: - Trigger: Customer submits an order through your website - Data: Order details (customer name, address, pizza type, size, toppings, phone number) - Action 1: Extract the customer info - Action 2: Format it into a standard format - Action 3: Send it to your kitchen printer - Action 4: Send a confirmation SMS to the customer

The data is the customer info. It flows through every step. Each action either uses it or transforms it or moves it. Without data, the workflow has nothing to work with.

This is important: workflows are picky about data. If the trigger sends messy data ("John Smith // 123 Main Street" with extra spaces), the workflow moves the mess along. Garbage in, garbage out. We'll talk about how to clean data later. For now, just know: the quality of what goes in determines the quality of what comes out.