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Hi there,

New with the San Diego release, for Flow Designer: "Create and view flows as diagrams. See the paths a flow can follow and the connections between elements." Awesome!!!

While Flow Diagramming is described on the Product Documentation, there's something missing... how to enable Flow Diagramming when upgrading from a previous release. Or also, when working on a new instance (on a new instance on San Diego patch 0, Flow Diagramming is not active).

It's just a really tiny small need to know...

Flow Diagramming?

In case you missed it, below to snapshots from TechNow episode 93 (Meet the Now Platform San Diego Release Platform Features):

As mentioned Flow Diagramming is also described on the Product Documentation:

Flow diagramming view

Enable Flow Diagramming

When upgrading your instance to San Diego patch 0 or when obtaining a new instance or zBooted an instance, Flow Diagramming won't be active. It's just a minor action to get Flow Diagramming working, though what?

You might already have looked at the System Properties, which is often one of my first searches on a new release. A new System Property "sn_flow_diagram.flow_diagramming_enabled" has been added, though its value is false and the scope it's in is private. It concerns scope "Flow Diagramming".

So let's have a look at the Plugins, and search for Flow Diagramming. Although it's a new plugin that comes with the San Diego release, there's already a new version available: 21.1.1 S. This is actually also the "trick" for getting Flow Diagramming activated!

Result

After having updated the Flow Diagramming plugin, you'll notice within Flow Designer the presence of a switch to toggle the view:

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