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# Core Concepts

Learn the core concepts that make up Umbraco Automate — workspaces, automations, triggers, actions, connections, bindings, and runs.

Umbraco Automate is built around a small set of concepts. Understanding them helps you build automations confidently and read run history when something goes wrong.

## Concept Map

| Concept                                                    | Description                                                                               |
| ---------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Workspace](/umbraco-automate/concepts/workspaces.md)      | A container that groups automations and controls which connections and users have access. |
| [Automation](/umbraco-automate/concepts/automations.md)    | A user-defined workflow — a trigger plus a sequence of steps.                             |
| [Trigger](/umbraco-automate/concepts/triggers.md)          | The event that starts an automation.                                                      |
| [Action](/umbraco-automate/concepts/actions.md)            | A reusable unit of work that runs as a step in an automation.                             |
| [Connection](/umbraco-automate/concepts/connections.md)    | A named, reusable credential set for an external service.                                 |
| [Binding](/umbraco-automate/concepts/bindings.md)          | A `${ ... }` placeholder that passes data between steps.                                  |
| [Control Flow](/umbraco-automate/concepts/control-flow.md) | Branching and looping primitives such as If, Switch, While, and ForEach.                  |
| [Run](/umbraco-automate/concepts/runs.md)                  | A single execution of an automation, with per-step audit data.                            |
| [Versioning](/umbraco-automate/concepts/versioning.md)     | Draft and published versions of an automation, with rollback.                             |


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