Automation Action

This skill points you to Kentico's automation-customization documentation. Use it to implement a custom automation process action.

Pieces of a custom action

• Action class – inherits AutomationAction (no configuration) or AutomationAction<TProperties> (marketer-configurable); implements the logic in Execute.
• Properties class – implements IAutomationActionProperties; public properties annotated with admin UI form components define the configuration dialog.
• Registration – the RegisterAutomationAction assembly attribute (identifier, display name, icon, description) makes the action appear in the Automation Builder.
• Runtime context – AutomationProcessContext gives access to the processed contact, the process, and trigger data.
• Process data – IAutomationProcessData implementations share typed data between steps of the same process.

How to use

• Read references/docs.md and fetch the docs pages listed there.

Gotcha

• Form-component and validation attributes come from the Kentico.Xperience.Admin.*.FormAnnotations namespaces — never from Kentico.Forms.Web.Mvc, an obsolete Form Builder namespace with matching class names.
• Use ILogger<T> for logging. EventLogService is obsolete — don't use it.