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2. NewWorkflow New Workflow

In this section, we’ll go over getting started with creating a new workflow.

2.1. Create a New Workflow

Create a new workflow by clicking on the top-right blue button from the Workflows main page.

Create New Workflow

2.2. Edit Mode Interface

Create and rework your workflows easily in Edit Mode. The following image maps out the editing actions that can be performed on your workflow listed below.

Edit Mode

  1. Name of the workflow
  2. File Menu: Save, Open, Download, etc.
  3. View Menu: Full screen mode option
  4. Help Menu: Tour, Worker Cheat Sheet
  5. Undo an action
  6. Redo an action
  7. Take a screen shot of the workflow
  8. Shapes: Add special workers such as Decision, Data Collector and Report Generator
  9. Auto-fit the workflow on the canvas (show all workers)
  10. Zoom to 100% (based on initial worker sizes)
  11. Pin the current view to come back to it later
  12. Take a tour of the workflow canvas
  13. Review the keyboard shortcuts
  14. Refresh the canvas
  15. View workflow comments
  16. Show Reporters: see all available report generators in the workflow
  17. Edit the workflow in 3D with the ability to revolve in 3D space
  18. Search for workers, inputs or data in the workflow
  19. Add Worker: Review and add workers to the canvas
  20. Docs: link to this documentation
  21. Expand the window to full screen
  22. Close out of the workflow
  23. Workers: Review and add workers to the canvas
  24. Visualization Workers: Newton and Parallel
  25. Viewers: View Files, Curves, Images and Charts/Datasets related to the workflow
  26. Settings: Reset data, Visualize worker sizes, Import from JSON
  27. START worker (all new workflows automatically have this)
  28. Added workers
  29. END worker (all new workflows automatically have this)
  30. Thumbnail view of the full workflow. Click the minus symbol to hide.
  31. Select multiple workers at the same time. Useful for multi-work editing.
  32. View workflow logs

Note: Workflows will open in edit mode by default either by creating a new workflow or clicking on a saved workflow’s name. To open your workflow in Run mode, you will need to save it, close out of it and then click on the play button next to the workflow record on the main page. Skip to Saving and Sharing to learn how to save your workflow. Skip to Executing to learn how to open it in run mode.

More on importing data in the next section.