University intro
This program is designed to give you a lightweight consumable education around the Tines automation platform. It should take about ~30 minutes to go through each series within the university. Including beginner, intermediate, and advanced sections. Each module within the series is designed to bring you up to speed on the platform quickly. As you go through each of these sections you'll receive contextual information about how the tool works and the intricacies of implementation.
The material is a mix of text, images, how-to videos, interactive experiences, and ends with the next steps to get more involved. At the conclusion, you'll find additional research to learn outside of the University, as well as be able to build along with Tines specialists.
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Without further ado, let's dive into it 🏊
What is Tines?
Tines is an automation platform that allows you to build workflows using "stories", "actions", and "events".
Key pillars of Tines
Actions
Actions represent the individual steps that lead to completing an overall task.
Stories
Stories represent the overall use case that houses your actions. They automate an end-to-end workflow.
Events
Events are the data that is transferred between actions, flowing from the top action down through the story.
Automate with Tines
At a high level, automation is like telling a story. In your story, actions represent the key steps that make up your workflow, and events are the data moving through those steps. Let’s break it down:
Storytelling with Automation: Think of automation as a way to design your own “story.” The plot? It's your daily tasks, transformed into an automated workflow. Each action in the story represents a step in the process, and each event is the information that flows through those steps.
What You’ll Need to Get Started: When you begin working with Tines, the most important tools you’ll need are:
Your creativity: What do you want to automate?
Excitement to configure workflows: It’s all about translating your ideas into real actions. We want to make it clear that the fun comes when you get hands-on and bring those ideas to life!
Why Automate?
Automation frees up your time: It removes the need for you to manually do repetitive tasks. Once automated, those tasks are taken care of without any additional effort from you, leaving you more time for high-priority work.
Efficiency: If you're doing the same task over and over, automation is a game-changer. For example, imagine you need to add 3,000 users to a system. Doing this manually is tedious and time-consuming. But with Tines, you can automate the entire process in just a few steps.
This video explains the basics of Tines, focusing on actions, the storyboard, and the properties panel.
Welcome to Tines
Resources
In your journey to master Tines automation, having access to reliable and comprehensive resources is crucial. At Tines, we understand the importance of providing you with the tools and information you need to succeed. Our extensive range of resources is designed to empower you and support your automation efforts at every step.
Docs
Link: https://www.tines.com/docs/quickstart
Summary: This section provides details about each key feature of Tines. You can learn more about stories, actions, events, credentials, resources, functions, and many more.
API
Link: https://www.tines.com/api/welcome
Summary: This section explains how to use the Tines API. It covers how to automatically onboard users, dynamically create actions, and perform many other tasks.
Story Library
Link: https://www.tines.com/story-library
Summary: The Story Library contains a collection of pre-built stories that cover various use cases. You can import stories that resonate with your team's specific use case, whether it involves connecting the tools you use or performing specific processes.
What's new
Link: https://www.tines.com/whats-new/introducing-touch-support-for-tines
Summary: Stay up to date with the latest features added to Tines by visiting the What's New section. Learn about the most recent addition, such as the introduction of touch support for Tines.
Tines explained
Link: https://explained.tines.com/en/
Tines explained is a companion resource available in Tines that outlines key features and provides guidance on first-time support. It also includes answers to FAQs and how-to videos.
You can access Tines Explained by clicking here or selecting "help and support" or "chat with support" from your Tines tenant.
Tines Community
The Tines Community Edition is a fully-featured cloud instance of Tines. It’s free to use, requires no up-front commitment, and includes a generous automation capacity. Anyone can sign-up and within minutes begin leveraging all the enterprise-grade features of a paid plan including Action templates, reporting, Story runs, forms, Action monitoring, SSO/SAML, and more.
We can't wait to see what you build. Get started today.