# About Control Flow

> An important aspect of successfully working with Studio is understanding and knowing how to control your project. **Control Flow** is a concept borrowed from computer science that refers to the order in which actions are performed in an automation.

An important aspect of successfully working with Studio is understanding and knowing how to control your project. **Control Flow** is a concept borrowed from computer science that refers to the order in which actions are performed in an automation.

A proper **Control Flow** can be achieved through the intelligent use of variables and activities.

All of these activities can be found in the **Activities** panel, under **Workflow > Control**.

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These activities enable you to define rules and automate conditional statements within the project, through **if/else** and **for each** statements or **loops**.**Delay** can also be added between actions, in order to perfectly time activities.

**Loops** represent an important part of automations as they enable you to easily check dependencies between variables, activities and conditions. Once created, they enable the user to run a segment of the automation for a specific number of times, until a condition is met, or indefinitely.