Validation rules
Description of the flow designer's validation rules.
On this page
Certain rules must be adhered to in order to successfully save a flow. If any of these rules are not followed after clicking the Apply
or Save
button, a validation error notification will appear, and the changes won’t be saved.
Rules
- The flow
name
must be unique within the app. - Each step
name
must be unique within the flow. - Both a
Start
step and at least oneEnd
step are mandatory. - The
Start
step should be unique. - Inputs must pass their respective validation rules.
- Outputs must pass their respective validation rules.
- There should be no steps without any connections except for the
Context step
and expanded versions ofsubflows
. - Outside of group containers, every step, except for
Start
andEnd
steps, should serve as the source and target of at least one connection. - Inside of group containers, only one step should not be the target of any connection. This step will be the initial step in the flow execution within the group.