---
title: Workflows reference
description: Reference documentation for Elastic Workflows triggers, steps, and the templating engine.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5950/explore-analyze/workflows/reference
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Enterprise
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
  - Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
  - Elastic Stack
  - Kibana
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Preview since 9.3
---

# Workflows reference
Reference material for the components that make up a workflow definition. Use this section when you need to know what a specific trigger or step accepts, what its output looks like, or how templating expressions are evaluated.
- [Triggers](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5950/explore-analyze/workflows/triggers): Manual, scheduled, and alert triggers.
- [Steps](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5950/explore-analyze/workflows/steps): Action steps, flow control steps, and AI steps.
- [Templating engine](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5950/explore-analyze/workflows/templating): Liquid templating syntax, variables, and filters.