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Get to Know the Playbook Editor

Learn about the components you use to create and edit playbooks.

In the playbook editor, you create and edit playbooks.

This is a new playbook created using the phishing template. Let's explore this playbook:

The phishing playbook template highlighted with red rectangles and labeled with numbers.

1 Control how you view the interface. Zoom in, out, or reset the view to the default.

2 Save your playbook and return to the PLAYBOOKS page. You can save your playbook even if it's incomplete, but if it contains any errors, it will not run.

3 A playbook is made of nodes. You connect each node to one or more other nodes. Each node has two or more ports, inbound and outbound. To view a node's ports, hover over the node.

Every playbook has a start node and end node that defines its logical boundaries, where the playbook starts and ends. You cannot change these two nodes. The start node has one outbound port; the end node has one inbound port.

To build the logic of your playbook, add nodes, and configure action, decision, and filter nodes.

If a node is outlined in red, it needs your attention. When you create a playbook using a template, all the nodes are initially outlined in red. You must click on the node and change how it's configured, or the playbook will not run.