Creating a Pipeline
Every Pipeline starts on the Pipelines menu with a single Add action. You give it a name, a description, and how long each step is allowed to run before it's treated as failed — then you land straight in the builder to start adding steps.
The Pipelines Menu
Open the Pipelines item in the left menu. This shows every Pipeline you've already created, with a search box and a list of past searches remembered for you (covered in full in Searching Pipelines). To start a new one, click Add Pipeline at the top of the screen.
The Add Pipeline Form
Add Pipeline is deliberately short — it only asks for the three things a Pipeline needs to exist before it can have any steps:
| Field | What It's For |
|---|---|
| Name | How the Pipeline shows up everywhere — the search list, the run-history view, the picker if another screen references it later. |
| Description | Free-text notes for yourself and your team — what the Pipeline is for, when it should be run. |
| How Long to Wait Per Step | The maximum time the Pipeline will wait on any one step before giving up on it and treating it as failed. Defaults to 1800 seconds (30 minutes) if you don't change it — a sensible ceiling for most workflows. You can raise it for a Pipeline whose steps are known to run long, or lower it if you want failures caught faster. |
What Happens on Save
You fill in Name, Description, and the wait time
No steps are configured yet — a brand-new Pipeline can't have steps until it exists, because each step needs to point back at its own Pipeline.
You click Save
The Pipeline is created immediately — empty, but real, with its own ID.
You land straight in the Pipeline builder
There's no dead-end "created, now go find it in the list" step. Saving takes you directly into the builder screen for your new, empty Pipeline so you can start adding steps right away — covered next in Adding Items & Template Lookup.