Do Nothing
Do Nothing is a step that does nothing, on purpose.
Use it to join several branches back into one line, or to keep a long connection tidy. It also works as a placeholder for a step you have not built yet. Data passes through unchanged.
Setting it up
Place it on the canvas and connect it. It has no fields to fill in.
Connect the incoming branches
Route several branches into one Do Nothing step and they meet at a single point.
Connect what comes next
Connect its output to the step that should follow. The data arriving from the incoming branches passes through completely unaltered.
Name it
Rename the step to say what it is for: “Merge notifications”, “Add the API call here”. A canvas of steps all called Do Nothing tells the next person nothing.
What it passes on
Whatever reached it, untouched. Because only one branch of a Switch normally runs, the step carries that branch’s data through.
In practice you rarely reference the Do Nothing step itself. Reference the step that produced the value instead, so {{ 3.ret.email }} rather than this step’s number. That path is the same whichever branch the run took, and it survives you deleting the merge point later.
Examples to copy
Merging Branches
A Switch step may trigger three different actions (Slack, Email, SMS). Merge all three branches back into a single Do Nothing step before the final database update. This keeps the canvas clean.
What’s Next?
- See the branching steps a Do Nothing step usually merges back together in the Switch Step.
- Learn the rest of the canvas layout in Steps and Connections.