Flow views
The flow views are the visual representation of your pipeline's architecture or the steps you have added in your workflow. There are two types of flow views you will see in workflow designer.
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Architecture Flow
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Recipe Flow
Architectural Flow
The Architecture Flow is to plan and understand the whole pipeline in a macro level. For example if you decide to have 4 different dataset for a workflow then it is a better option to create more differnt recipes and clean and create kpis differently. refer to Create recipe for more information creating recipes. The whole purpose of an architectural flow is for better understanding of how the workflow is planned or how should it be planned. The other advantage of an architectural flow is that when someone needs to understand a workflow which was created a long time ago then the learning curve will reduce just by looking at macro level of the workflow.
you can find the architectural flow under Command tool bar
The Architectural flow of a workflow would typically have :
- Blocks representing the datasets
- The visual connection between the blocks if connected.
A normal architectural flow would look like the one below:
refer to Sales Incentive to know more about this architectural flow details and the workflow.
A more complex architectural flow would look like the one below :
refer to Customer 360 to know more about this architectural flow details and the workflow.
Recipe Flow
The Recipe flow is the visual representation of the steps created inside a recipe. It will simplify your understanding of the steps created. In some cases there may be multiple join tables , filter records or Groupby and Aggregate used in the flow which requires some understanding even for the one creating the workflow. The recipe flow will help you understand the step flow and also helpful to one understanding the workflow steps. Recipe flow as you can see will be in a micro level.
The recipe flow of a recipe would typically have :
- A block representing a step in the recipe.
- The visual connection between the steps .
A normal Recipe flow would look like the one below:
A more complex recipe flow would look like the one below
refer to Sales Incentive to know more about this recipe flow details and the workflow.