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


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

*Create New Workflow*

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   Create New Workflow


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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*

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   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 :ref:`Saving and Sharing <SaveShare>` to learn how to save your workflow. Skip to :ref:`Executing` to learn how to open it in run mode.

More on importing data in the next section.