Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
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A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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Either word in a topic |
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Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- Author Flows
- Create or Edit a Flow
- Create Steps in a Flow
- Create Navigation Lines between Steps in a Flow
- Add Result Steps to a Flow
- Define Flow Properties
- Inputs
- Outputs
- Sensitive Flow Input, Output, and System Properties
- Results
- Define Step Properties
- Edit the Expression of a Value for an Input or Output
- Extract and Modify Output Values
- Add Decisions to a Flow
- Change the Start Step
- Create Flows with Loops
- View the CloudSlang Code
- YAML File Textual Representation
- Validate Flows
Create or Edit a Flow
A flow is a composition of steps that forms a set of actions that are linked by decision-making logic in order to automate tasks. For example: Health checks, troubleshooting, remediation, or any other repetitive IT tasks.
Creating flows is the main function of OO Designer.
You can also display and edit a flow that was created externally from OO Designer, for example in ATOM. However, if the flow contains errors, OO Designer may not be able to display it in the Authoring pane. In such a case, you will need to fix the flow in the editor in which it was created and import it to OO Designer again.
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The name of a flow is limited to 128 characters.
The combined name and path of a flow (under the Library folder) is limited to 220 characters.
Names must be unique within their folders.
Names are not case-sensitive, so names such as "Ping" and "ping" are considered duplicates. However, when calling an item, make sure to use the correct case.
Flow names must contain alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9), hyphens ( - ), and underscores ( _ ).
Flow names cannot contain white spaces, parentheses ( () ), square brackets ( [] ), curly braces ( {} ), and only digits (0-9).
Names cannot be identical to the following Windows reserved words: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, NUL, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9 .
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- In the Projects pane, select the folder in which you want to locate the new flow.
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Click the New
button and select Flow.
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In the New Flow dialog box, enter a name for the flow and click OK.
Note When naming a flow, make sure the naming conventions are followed. See Naming Flows. To change a flow name, copy it as a new flow with the correct name.
A new tab opens in the Authoring pane with the name of the new flow.
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Click the Properties button
to display the flow's Properties pane.
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Click the Description tab. You can enter a summary of what the flow does.
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