Create a flow
About this task
Use these steps to define a flow:
Procedure
- From the Welcome page, click the Create New Project icon.
- Type a name for the project in the Name field. Optionally, enter information in the Description and Tags fields.
- In the Design tab, select your project.
- In the main Design Server workspace, choose Flows. Select New New Flow dialog opens.
- Type a flow name in the Name field, and then click OK. The Flow Designer workspace for the flow opens.
- From the Palette, on the left side of the page, drag the Map icon onto the canvas.
- Right click on the map node to open a list of maps.
- Select a map from the list.
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Click on the map node. The structure of the map is revealed in the structure panel, and details
about the node are displayed in the details panel.
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Change the name of the node and give it a description by clicking on the
Edit icon in the Details panel.
- Click on the drop-down menu in the structure panel and select Edit Terminals... to change which cards of the map are displayed as terminals in the map node.
- Select other node types from the Palette and drag them to the canvas.
- Connect nodes by dragging from the output terminal of one node to the input terminal of another node.
- Use the toolbar in the upper right corner of the canvas and select Save to save the flow.
- From the toolbar select Analyze, to analyze the flow for structural errors or incomplete definitions.
- Click the Home icon to return to the Welcome page. From here, the flow can be added to a package and deployed to the runtime environment.