# Automations and actions: Define your app's business logic
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**Automations** are how you define the business logic of your application. The main components of an automation are: triggers that start the automation, a sequence of one or more actions, input parameters used to pass data to the automation, and an output.

**Topics**
+ [Automations concepts](automations-concepts.md)
+ [Creating, editing, and deleting automations](automations-create-edit-delete.md)
+ [Adding, editing, and deleting automation actions](automations-actions-add-edit-delete.md)
+ [Automation actions reference](automations-actions-reference.md)