Now that you know what events are and how they’re stored, let’s explore how they connect your actions together.
Each new action in a story can reference data from previous events. This is known as referencing upstream event data. Essentially, you can tell a later action, “Use this piece of data from a previous step.”
Tines handles this referencing automatically as your story runs. Each connected action reads the data it needs from earlier events, uses it, and then creates a new event with its own results. This “flow”, one event feeding the next, is what makes stories dynamic. Instead of every action working in isolation, your story becomes a living chain of connected data.
Let's take a look at how to connect actions together.
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Connectors make your story come to life
As we explored earlier in the story module, a story consists of actions that work together in a choreographed sequence to run workflows. What we haven't yet discussed in detail are the vital components that make this choreography possible: Connectors.
Connectors are the lines you see on the storyboard that link one action to another. While they may appear as simple visual elements, these lines represent the crucial pathways through which events flow from one action to the next.
When you draw a line from one action to another in your story, you're establishing a pathway for events to travel.