Create Playbooks

Playbook and component runs use platform timeout defaults (4 hours total from start, extended by up to 1 hour per period of job activity). Individual connector and native actions time out after 15 minutes. See Timeouts and LimitsTimeouts and Limits for details.

Playbook action input and outputs are limited to 20MiB. You should always narrow data down as much as possible for playbook and action performance. For more information about file-handling limits, click Playbook File HandlingPlaybook File Handling.

Create Playbooks

To create a playbook:

From the navigation menu, click ORCHESTRATION.

Click Playbooks.

From the Playbooks home page task bar, click the plus menu icon, and then select Create a new playbook.

In New Playbookwindow, enter a Namefor the playbook and (optionally) a description, and then click Save.

The playbook opens.

If you want to import Swimlane Solution Package files (.ssp files), see Import Swimlane Solution Packages.

Enabled Playbook Toggle

To view details about how to enable/disable a playbook, click Enable and Disable Classic PlaybooksEnable and Disable Playbooks.

Select Action/Nested Playbook

To add an action/nested playbook, follow the instructions on the ActionsActions and Nested PlaybooksNested Playbooks pages.