Managing a flow

There are lots of things you can do when it comes to managing your flow. We'll cover all of them below:

• Renaming your flow
• Adding a description to your flow
• Deleting your flow
• Turning on summary emails
• Managing flow failure settings
• Duplicating your flow

Renaming your flow

You can rename your flow by clicking on the current name of your flow in the header bar. Select "Rename" and edit your flow name inline.
You can also rename it from your flows page by opening the overflow menu, selecting “Flow settings,” and typing into the “Flow name” field.

Adding a description to your flow

Add a description to your flow to summarize what it does, or explain how to use it. This is particularly useful if you're collaborating on flows with multiple team members.

To write a flow description, click the flow title to open a dropdown menu, and select the gear icon. You can also add a description from the Dasboard by clicking into the pencil icon "Add a description" field. You can also update the flow description from the Flows page. Open the overflow menu, and select "Flow Settings". Enter the description you'd like in the "Flow Description" field and click "Save".

Deleting your flow

To delete a flow, you can either delete it from within the builder (using the navigation bar menu), or from your Flows page (using the overflow menu).

Turning on summary emails

By default, summary emails are turned off for successful runs, and turned on for fully or partially failed runs. Users with edit permissions will receive these emails and can choose what kind of summary email they would like to receive.

To enable summary emails for successful runs, go to the flow settings page and enable the toggle for "Receive an email every time flow is run". (Don't forget to click "Save"!)

The summary email will send right after your flow runs. Check your email inbox to locate an email from support@parabola.io with the subject line, "Parabola run succeeded". This email will contain Flow details like your Flow name, link to the Flow, and Flow run ID, plus export destinations, step methods, and number of rows sent.

Managing your flow failure settings

By default, scheduled flows will automatically pause after 10 consecutive failures. This helps prevent repeated failures from continuing to run unnoticed.

If you’d like your flow to keep running even after 10 failures, you can change this setting:

1. Open “Flow settings” from either the navigation bar menu or the overflow menu on your Flows page.
2. Find the checkbox labeled “Pause scheduled flow after 10 consecutive failures.”
3. Uncheck this box to opt out of auto-pause.
4. Click “Save.”

With this setting turned off, your flow will continue running regardless of consecutive failures.

Duplicating your flow

You can duplicate an entire flow in two ways: either from within the Flow builder (using the navigation bar menu), or from your Flows page (using the overflow menu). This will create a copy of your Flow, in the same location.

To duplicate just a portion or branch of your Flow, first select steps by holding the shift key and clicking and dragging a box around them on the canvas. Then, copy (⌘/Ctrl + C) and paste them into another Flow canvas (⌘/Control + V). You may also select your Flow's steps by clicking on the individual steps while holding down the shift key.