Words you will meet
The words Flowmage uses on its screens and in these pages, each with one meaning and the place you first meet it, from organization to re-run.
Words in Flowmage
| Word | What it means | Where you meet it |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Your company: its plan, members and workspaces. | The first name in the top bar |
| Workspace | A space in your organization for flows, connections, tables, files and secrets. | The second name in the top bar |
| Environment | Test or Prod: where a workspace runs its flows. | The Test and Prod switch in the sidebar |
| Flow | An automation: something arrives, a chain of nodes runs. | Flows |
| Draft | The copy you edit. A trigger only starts a version. | The editor |
| Publish | Save the draft as a new version on Test. | Publish in the editor |
| Put on Prod | Make a version the one Prod runs. | Publishing to Test and Prod |
| Node | One box on the canvas: one thing the flow does, with its settings. | Add step on the canvas |
| Edge | The line to the node that runs next. | The canvas |
| Trigger | What starts flows: a webhook, a schedule, a service. Several flows can share one. | Triggers, and a flow's Triggers tab |
| Run | One pass of a flow through its nodes. | Runs |
| Draft run | A run of your draft on Test, from the editor, unpublished. | Test run in the editor |
| Step | One node's turn in a run. In a loop over three items, a node takes three. | The Steps list of a run |
| Task | What your plan counts: one attempt of one step. | The usage tile in the sidebar |
| Retry | Flowmage trying a failed step again, in the same run. | A step's attempt number in a run |
| Re-run | A new run with an earlier run's input. | Retry… on a finished run |
| Connection | Sign-in details for one service, apart for Test and Prod. | Connections |
| Secret | A named hidden value, one for Test and one for Prod. | Secrets |
| Table | Rows under typed columns, apart for Test and Prod. | Tables |
| Approval | A run asking a person how to go on. | Approvals |
How they behave
- Each word means one thing everywhere. Point at one for its definition; the glossary has the rest.
Common mistakes
- Mixing up retry and re-run. A retry happens by itself, in the same run. A re-run is a new run: Retry… on a finished run starts one.
- Calling an edge a connection. An edge links two nodes; a connection holds a service's sign-in details.
- Expecting Publish to reach Prod. Publish puts a version on Test; Prod runs it once you put it on Prod.