Accessing files

Workflow Steps are simply Jobs. Steps, like Jobs, run is a subdirectory of a Project. Neither Jobs nor Steps have general access to Project files.

If a step needs to access Project files, or files generated by other steps it declares this need in the step's Plumbing.

## Accessing project files If a Step needs to access a Project file it must make two declarations. The Workflow must declare a Workflow Variable that is an input. When a user runs the Workflow there are then forced to provide a value for the input - a file in the Project volume. Secondly, any Step that wishes to use this file needs to declare it in their plumbing. here's an example: -

## Accessing files in prior steps