Flow Designer Actions missing

[Jeffrey Barton]

When I try to add a script action there isn't one.  How do I turn this on so I can use the advanced features and get extra data from different parts of the system?  The documentation is clear that I should have this option, I've logged in as the local admin and have the same result.  I've checked roles, etc. all based on documents and yet I can't find it.  Why won't script action show up for me?

[-O- · Accepted solution]

There's two ways to script in Flows

• inline scripts - totally not recommended, unreliable, prone to breading, hell to maintain - stay away.
• Script step in custom Actions - do this.

It is different from Workflows.

[-O- · Accepted solution]

There's two ways to script in Flows

• inline scripts - totally not recommended, unreliable, prone to breading, hell to maintain - stay away.
• Script step in custom Actions - do this.

It is different from Workflows.

[-O- · Accepted solution]

This is how you create custom Actions:

This is what you should stay away from:

By creating and using custom Actions you are respecting the Flow Designer paradigm where actions receive input by dropping data-pills on them and provide output in the form of their own data pills.

Here's an attempt to put it into a picture:

And this is how a custom action than consumes data from pills and provides its own data-pills to be used as inputs for other actions: