Run a workflow by hand

Start a workflow yourself, whenever you choose.

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Use it for jobs you start when they’re due: a month-end report, a clean-up, or a backfill. Nothing starts it on its own. It has no address and no schedule.

Add the trigger

1. In a new workflow, press Add a trigger, type manual and choose Manual.
2. Add your steps, then press Publish.

Run it

Press Run in the top bar. It runs the published version now, on real data, and opens the run.

Test is different: it runs your draft, as a test run.

From Workflows, press Run… on the workflow’s row, or Run now… in its menu. Both ask first, then run the published version.

Check it worked

The run opens on its own page, and shows Worked when it ends.

For developers

Run a workflow starts it with an API token. The JSON you send is the trigger data as it is: send {"month": "2026-10"} and read {{trigger.month}}. Add ?environment=production to run the published version. Without it, a workflow with unpublished edits runs its draft as a test. To describe the inputs up front, use a Form or an MCP Tool trigger instead. A workflow imported from another automation tool that you started by hand there comes in with this trigger.

Related

• Choose a triggerWhich trigger fits which job · 3 min
• Test, publish and go back to a versionTest your draft, then make it live · 5 min
• Run a workflowStart a run with an API token

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