# Next Action Field

The Next Action Field defines which action to execute after this action has completed. The current action will send its output to the first of the AI [action-variables](action-variables "mention") of the selected next action as input.

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Next Actions silently ignore the input of previous actions if they do not have any AI [action-variables](action-variables "mention").
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If you want to execute multiple actions, select a [group](custom-actions/group "mention") action. In this case the output will be sent to each of the actions in the group in a similar way as mentioned above.

If you want to process the output of an action, send it to an [ask-ai](custom-actions/ask-ai "mention") action.

If you want to send the output of an action back to the original [ask-ai](custom-actions/ask-ai "mention") action that triggered it, select the [return-result-to-previous-ai](built-in-actions/flow-control/return-result-to-previous-ai "mention") action as the next action. This requires the previous [ask-ai](custom-actions/ask-ai "mention") action to allow multiple turns, else it will be ignored.

