Flow Designer Landing page
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Summary of Flow Designer Landing Page
The Flow Designer landing page serves as a central hub for accessing and managing actions, flows, subflows, and their execution details. It includes various sections and widgets designed to enhance your workflow efficiency.
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Key Features
- Available Work by Component Type: This section lists records for flows, subflows, actions, and executions, allowing users to filter and personalize views based on their needs.
- Create New: Links provided to create new flows, subflows, or actions based on user permissions and roles.
- Pick Up Where You Left Off: Displays recently edited or created components for quick access.
- Execution Reports: Contains reports on today's flow executions and the most executed flows in the last 24 hours.
- Recent Activity: An activity stream showing recent component creations and updates, with user information and timestamps.
- Resources: Links to documentation, support videos, community discussions, Integration Hub spokes, and developer courses.
- Help Panel: Accessible via the question mark icon, offering guided tours and topics to assist in building flows and actions.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing the Flow Designer landing page, ServiceNow customers can efficiently manage their workflow components, track execution details, and access helpful resources, leading to enhanced productivity and streamlined operations in process automation.
Access or create actions, flows, subflows, or their execution details.
The Flow Designer landing page includes several sections and widgets to guide your work.
Available work by component type
This section displays a list of records for each component type of work.
- Flows
- Lists the available flows that you can work on. Selecting a flow opens the flow in a new tab. By default, this list displays the flow name, internal name, application scope name, publication status, active state, and update information. You can use the standard list controls to filter or personalize this list.
- Subflows
- Lists the available subflows that you can work on. Selecting a subflow opens the subflow in a new tab. By default, this list displays the subflow name, internal name, application scope name, publication status, active state, and update information. You can use the standard list controls to filter or personalize this list.
- Actions
- Lists the available actions that you can work on. Selecting an action opens the action in a new tab. By default, this list displays the action name, internal name, application scope name, publication status, active state, and update information. You can use the standard list controls to filter or personalize this list.
- Executions
- Lists the execution details of the actions, flows, and subflows run. By default, this list displays the created date, name of the action, flow, or subflow run, run state, runtime duration, created by, and sys_id information. You can use the standard list controls to filter or personalize this list.
- Connections
- Lists the available connection records that you can view or edit for Integration Hub spokes.
- All Work filter
- Lists filter options for available work. Choose between Created By Me or All Work. The Created By Me option only displays Flow Designer components or execution details that you created. The All Work option shows all Flow Designer components or execution details that you have permission to view or edit.
Create New
This section includes links to create a flow, subflow, or action. The available choices depend on your user role, developer permissions, and feature access settings. You can only create components that you have permission to create. See User access to Flow Designer for information about giving or limiting access to Flow Designer components.
Pick up where you left off
This section lists the Flow Designer components that you last created or edited. Select a component to continue working on it.
Execution reports
- Today's flow executions
- This report lists the execution details created today.
- Today's most executed flows
- This report lists the most run flow or subflow during the last 24 hours.
Recent Activity
This section shows an activity stream of Flow Designer component creations and updates. The activity stream shows the user, the Flow Designer component worked on, and how long ago the activity happened.
Resources
This section includes links to product documentation, support videos, community discussion, Integration Hub spokes, and developer courses.
Help Panel
This section is available when you select the question mark icon (
) to open the Flow Designer help panel. You can browse topics and guided tours that can help you get started building flows and actions. For more information, see Use the Flow Designer help panel.