RoboFlowHelp.1.03

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RoboFlow Terms

This section gives a brief overview of the various terms used in RoboFlow. The complexity of RoboFlow is easier to understand terms once you are familiar with these terms.

Term	Meaning
action	single step within a workflow performing some task like copying a file to another location or updating a metadata field
action scripts	an ordered set or sequence of actions all being performed on the same kind of initial value like a list of records or files
output variable (also TAG)	Name under which the result of an action is stored also called TAG
variable	a temporary store either holding an input or output value within an action set
workflow	a process to perform action scripts on an input list triggered by a start event
workflow type/ template	defines the type of the input values (e.g. list of records) and the action scripts to be performed on those inputs