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title: "Create Type From Data"
slug: "create-type-from-data"
tags: ["data", "Data Structures"]
updated: 2025-06-18T15:30:07Z
published: 2025-06-18T15:30:07Z
canonical: "documentation.decisions.com/create-type-from-data"
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# Create Type From Data

## Overview

Users can use the **Create** **Type** **From** **Data** feature to recreate or track data from a specific Flow. The Create Type From Data is a feature found in the **Data** **Definitions** window that compiles the configured Data Definitions and converts them into a singular Defined Data Structure.

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## Example

The following example will demonstrate how to create a Flow Structure data type called "Company" based on pre-existing String data.

1. In a Designer Project and select CREATE FLOW from the top Action bar. Select **Flow**, provide a Name, then click CREATE.
2. Click SETUP INPUT DATA, then click DEFINE.![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/2025-06-17_16h45_32.png)
3. Under NAME, enter "EmployeeName" as a **String [Text]**. Click the pencil icon and enter "Sam Thomson" as a Constant mapping. Enter "EmployeeEmail" under NAME as a String [Text] and Constant map in "example@company.com". Click **Save** and close the window.![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/2025-06-17_16h47_13.png)
4. Attach a Create Data step to the Show Form step and the End step from the FAVORITE STEPS category of the Toolbox panel.
5. On the Properties panel, click SHOW EDITOR under **Data To Create**.![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/2025-06-17_16h48_51.png)
6. From the Data Definitions window, click **Create Type**. Enter "Company" under **Data Name**. Click CREATE.![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/2024-06-26_16h53_01.png)
7. Provide the **Data Name**, "Company", then click CREATE.
8. Select **Edit Type**.![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/2024-06-27_08h20_29.png)
9. Define two String [Text] Types for EmployeeEmail and EmployeeName, then click SAVE.![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/2024-06-27_08h21_59.png)
10. Under **Input**, click **Edit**, then change the mapping for **Company** to **Build** **Data**; **Select** **From** **Flow** Employee Email and Employee Name to their corresponding Input.
11. CLOSE twice to leave the Data Definitions window.
12. Save the Flow, then if desired, close via X.![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/2025-06-18_11h27_49.png)

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## Debug

1. From the **Flow Designer**, select the **Debug** link from the top Action bar.
2. Click START DEBUGGING.
3. Fill out the **Form**, or **Submit** the previously configured values. ![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/2025-06-18_11h28_58.png)
4. After the **Flow** runs, select the **Create Data** step, then **View Output Data**. Verify that the Data being Output is a Flow Structure called Company that contains the EmployeeEmail and EmployeeName Properties. 

![](https://cdn.document360.io/6ef8bcc1-6489-4486-9ad1-83acff7e5df0/Images/Documentation/2025-06-18_11h29_33.png)

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For further information on Flows, visit the [Decisions Forum](https://community.decisions.com/categories/Flows).