Workflow creation flow depends on the type of workflows. You can:
Create Targeting workflows from the Profiles and Targets > Jobs > Targeting workflows node of the Explorer or from the Profiles and Targets tab of the home page, via the Targeting workflows sub-tab.
Create Campaign workflows from the Targeting and workflows tab of a campaign
Create Technical workflows from the Administration > Production > Technical workflows node of the Explorer. Best practice is to create a specific workflow folder to save your technical workflows.
Click the New button located above the list of workflows.
Enter a label and click Save.
You must now define the various activities and link them together in the diagram. At this stage of the configuration, we can see the diagram label and the workflow status (Editing in progress). The lower section of the window is used for editing the diagram only. It contains a toolbar, a palette of activities (on the left) and the diagram itself (on the right).
If the palette is not shown, click the first button on the workflow toolbar to display it.
Activities are grouped by category in the different tabs of the palette. Available tabs and activities can vary depending on the workflow type (technical, targeting or campaign workflow).
To create the diagram
Add an activity by selecting it in the palette and by moving it to the diagram using a drag-and-drop operation.
Add a Start activity and then a Delivery activity on the diagram.
Link the activities together by dragging the Start activity transition and dropping it on to the Delivery activity.
You can automatically link an activity to the previous one by placing the new activity at the end of the transition.
Add the activities you need and link them together as shown in the diagram below.
You can copy and paste activities within a same workflow. However, we do not recommend to copy paste activities across different workflows. Some settings attached to activities like Deliveries and Scheduler could lead to conflicts and errors while executing the destination workflow. Instead, we recommended you to Duplicate workflows. For more information, see Duplicate workflows.
You can change the display and layout of the chart using the following elements:
Use the toolbar
The diagram editing toolbar gives you access to the layout and execution functions of the workflow.
This lets you adapt the layout of the editing tool: display of the palette and the overview, size and alignment of graphical objects.
Icons related to progress and logs display are detailed in these sections:
Object alignment
To align icons, select them and click the Align vertically or Align horizontally icon.
Use the CTRL key to select several scattered activities or to deselect one or more activities. Click on the diagram background to deselect everything.
Image management
You can customize the background image of the diagram as well as those related to the various activities. Refer to Change activity images.
Double-click an activity to configure it or right-click and select Open….
Campaign workflow activities are detailed in this section.
The first tab contains the basic configuration. The Advanced tab contains the additional parameters, which are used particularly for defining behavior when an error is encountered, specifying the execution duration for an activity, and for entering an initialization script.
For a better understanding of the activities and to improve workflow legibility, you can enter comments in the activities.
These comments are displayed automatically when operators scroll over the activity.
Workflow templates contain the overall configuration of properties and possibly a range of activities concatenated within a diagram. This configuration can be reused for creating new workflows containing a certain number of pre-configured elements
You can create new workflow templates based on existing templates or change a workflow into a template directly.
Workflow templates are stored in the Resources > Templates > Workflow templates node of the Explorer.
In addition to the usual workflow properties, the template properties allow you to specify the execution file for workflows created based on this template.
You can duplicate different types of workflows. Once duplicated, modifications of the workflow are not carried over to the copy of the workflow.
Copy-paste is available in workflows but we recommend you to use Duplicate. Once an activity copied, its whole configuration is kept. For delivery activities (Email, SMS, Push Notification…), the delivery object attached to the activity is also copied which can lead to crash.
Right-click on a workflow.
Click Duplicate.
In the workflow window, change the workflow label.
Click Save.
The duplicate feature is not directly available in the view of a campaign.
Yet, you can create a view to display all the workflows on your instance. In this view, you can duplicate workflows using Duplicate to.
Create a view
In Explorer, go to the folder you need to create your view in.
Right-click and go to Add a new folder > Process, select Workflows.
The new folder Workflows is created.
Right-click and select Properties.
In the Restriction tab, enable the This folder is a view option and click Save.
The folder is now populated with all the workflows of your instance.
Duplicate a campaign workflow
You can see your duplicated workflow in the workflow view.