Action Nodes

Execute operations with side effects — persist data, manage alarms, control devices, or modify system state.

Node	Description
Calculated fields	Triggers calculated field processing for incoming data without persisting the original to the database
Clear alarm	Clears active alarms for the originator
Copy to view	Replicates attribute changes from devices or assets to their associated entity views
Create alarm	Creates a new alarm or updates an existing active alarm for the originator
Create relation	Creates a relation between the originator and a configured target entity
Delay (deprecated)	Holds messages in memory for a configured period before forwarding; messages are lost on server restart
Delete attributes	Deletes specified attributes from the originator
Delete relation	Removes a relation from the originator to a configured entity
Device profile (deprecated)	Evaluates device profile alarm rules and creates, updates, or clears alarms accordingly
Device state	Manually triggers a connect, activity, disconnect, or inactivity event for the originator device
Generator	Generates messages at configurable intervals using a TBEL/JS script
GPS geofencing events	Monitors GPS coordinates against geofence polygons or circles; routes on entry, exit, or dwell duration events
Log	Executes a script to format and write a custom log entry to the ThingsBoard log file
Math function	Performs mathematical operations on values from message, metadata, attributes, or time series; stores the result back to any of those
Message count	Counts incoming messages over a configurable time interval and emits the count per service node as telemetry
Push to edge	Forwards the message from a cloud ThingsBoard instance to one or more ThingsBoard Edge instances
REST call reply	Sends message data as an HTTP response to a REST API call previously submitted to the rule engine
RPC call reply	Sends message data as a reply to a device RPC request (TO_SERVER_RPC_REQUEST)
RPC call request	Sends an RPC command to a device and returns the device’s response as outgoing message data
Save attributes	Persists message data as attributes of the originator
Save time series	Persists message data as time series of the originator
Assign to customer	Assigns the originator entity to a specified customer
Unassign from customer	Removes the originator entity from its current customer assignment
Push to cloud Edge only	Forwards the message from a ThingsBoard Edge instance to the cloud ThingsBoard instance
Add to group PE / Cloud only	Adds the originator to an entity group found by name pattern
Change owner PE / Cloud only	Changes the ownership of the originator to a specified tenant or customer
Generate dashboard report PE / Cloud only	Captures a screenshot of a configured dashboard via a headless browser and saves it as a blob entity
Generate report PE / Cloud only	Generates a report from a template and optionally notifies configured recipients
Integration downlink PE / Cloud only	Pushes the message as a downlink to a selected integration
Remove from group PE / Cloud only	Removes the originator from an entity group found by name pattern
Save to custom table PE / Cloud only	Persists message data to a custom Cassandra table using a configurable field mapping