workflow action

workflow action

noun

A highly configurable knowledge object that enables a variety of interactions between fields in events and other web resources.

Workflow actions can:

• Create HTML links that, for example, run searches in external search engines for field values.
• Generate HTTP POST requests to specified URIs.
• Launch secondary searches that use specific field values from a selected event.

For more information

See the Knowledge Manager Manual:

• Create and maintain workflow actions in Splunk Web