Flow Management Dashboard

Overview

The Flow Management Dashboard is a useful Decisions tool. This document will go over the various ways you can use this dashboard.

You can find the Flow Management Dashboard by navigating to System → Administration → System Tools → Flow Management

Flow Management

The first screen we see on the Flow Management Dashboard is the Flow Management Tab. Here, we are able to see how many stored flows we have in our Decisions environment. We can also quickly view the number of Recent Flow Runs and the CPU that is being used by our flows. On this screen there is also a report of Stored Flows on the left with corresponding Flow Step Details on the right.

Flow Step Details

Select a Flow within the Flow Management Dashboard and view the Flow Step Details on the right side of the Flow Step Browser. Choose a step and right-click to view a list of actions that can be implemented on the selected step. The actions will be slightly different depending on whether the step is Historical or Current.

• Remove
• Restart at Step (Historical only): Rollback a flow and restart at the selected step.
• Start Engine
• Advanced
  • Kill Flow: Ends the process
  • Turn off Profiling: Turns profiling off, if you are using the profiler to collect data. ( see attached link )
  • Turn on Profiling: Turns profiling on, if you are using the profiler to collect data.
• Edit Flow Data: Shows a submenu of all of the data available in the flow at that step. this option allows you to edit that data.
• Edit Step Start Data (Current only): Shows a submenu of all of the data available in the flow at that step. this option allows you to edit that data at the start of the step. This option is only available for current steps.
• Start After (Historical only): Allows you to roll back to the end of the step.  You have the option to choose the outcome path from the step.
• Storage: Allows you to store and reload flow data.
• Re-Run Step (Current only): Restarts the current step
• Complete Step (Current only): Completes the current step and allows you to choose the outcome path.

Integration Activities

On the next tab, Integration Activities, we can see activity relating to external systems. For example, here we can see that a Send Email step was successfully ran as well as the date and time that it was executed. At this screen, we are also able to perform various actions such as Re-Running our Event, Stop Retry, and View Sender/ Recipients.

Running Flows

Running Flows shows details about currently running flows. Here, we can view the Flow Tracking Id, the Main Flow Name, and the Number of Steps in the flow as well as other details. At this screen, we are able to Kill Running Flows, turn on and off Profiling as well as Flow Tracing.

Stored Workflows

On the Stored Workflows tab, we are able to see details about our stored flows such as the size, modified dates, and created on dates. We can also End Flows at this screen and Clear Flow Data.

Recent Flow Results

The Recent Flow Results tab shows details about flows that were recently run such as the Flow Start Time, Flow End Time, Run Time, and whether or not the flow Ended By Error.

Flow Step Timing

The Flow Step Timing screen shows further details about flows that ran, such as what steps they contain and the time each step took to run, grouped by the Flow Name.

Run Step Stats

The Steps Run Stats tab shows details about commonly used steps. Here we can see the Flows that contain these Steps as well as a chart that shows activity over time. Clicking on a bar in the top graph will also give you a more detailed view of this information.

Flow and Rule Validation

The Flow and Rule Validation tab shows flows and rules that contain validation issues. On this screen, we can see the Flow Name and Path, as well as the Validation Issue. We are able to perform actions from this screen such as Run Flow, Edit Flow, and Browse Dependencies.

Flow Structure

The final tab on the Flow Management Dashboard is Flow Structure. This report shows every step used in every flow. If, for example, you wanted to see every flow that used the Foreach Step you could use this report to determine that information.