Orchestration
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Playbooks
Nested Playbooks
5 min
you can nest playbooks into other playbooks as actions refer to actions docid\ e5uucqhz2w2r bsvhfdnk for instructions to add an action to a playbook terms term meaning parent playbook a playbook that calls another playbook nested playbook a playbook that calls another playbook as an action when nesting a playbook into a parent playbook, the nested playbook's inputs and outputs are available to map to and use in the parent playbook to nest a playbook to a new/current playbook navigate to the playbooks home page, and then open a playbook (or create/upload a playbook) click add an action from action , click the action drop down menu, and select an existing playbook from action , add a title click configure to map inputs and outputs if the nested playbook has inputs and/or outputs, they are available on action inputs review action outputs when finished, click apply you have successfully nested a playbook to your current playbook view parent playbooks as triggers in nested playbooks you do not need to select a trigger before adding and configuring actions and conditions a trigger automates actions based on the criteria set within a playbook playbooks can also be triggers there are parent and nested playbooks when an action is configured to call a nested playbook, the nested playbook will show that parent playbook as a trigger if you have more than one playbook as a trigger, click the desired playbook trigger, which will be visible with a blue highlight box around the trigger the trigger panel displays to view the list of parent playbooks and triggers from trigger, click open parent playbook the parent playbooks and triggers open in a new tab from here, view and/or make updates to the parent playbooks important! when calling nested playbooks, turbine's default configuration is for a maximum depth of 10 playbook levels