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Silkcutz01 Desktop to Cloud Transition: Visual Workflow designer
I saw the recent webinar which included your roadmap. Visual Workflow is a fantastic tool and I am very excited about the future opportunities. However, best practice for managing the transition from desktop to cloud is not particularly clear. We have created very detailed flows (including branches of subflows) and one of the limitations of the cloud designer is you cannot have subflows. So...
1. For existing customers who have already invested a lot of time and money in developing flows using the desktop designer - when will they be able to make a full transition to the cloud based designer?
2. How do you move a desktop version of flow to the cloud version? Are they any best practice or tools to help with this or will it be a manual re-write?
3. Are there size limitations on the current cloud designer? (Summer 12 references enterprise modeling and subflows)
Thank you for taking your time to use the tool!
1. The Cloud Designer will indeed be able to open flows designed by the old designer, but unfortunately not yet. We are actively working on this. If you noticed, we have changed the methodology quite a bit in the new designer and we need to make sure we can translate every aspect of the desktop designer to the new way of things. That is some non-trivial amount of work and that is the reason for the delay. But rest assured, it will come soon. And during that time, you will be able to run flows from BOTH the designer!
2. As of now, its a manual re-write if you want to. When the Cloud Designer has the support, the "Open" link will automatically show up on all old desktop flows, and you should be able to modify the flows in the new cloud designer. You will however not be able to work in a flow created by the cloud designer on your desktop designer.
3. There no limitations such as the size etc.
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Thank you for taking your time to use the tool!
1. The Cloud Designer will indeed be able to open flows designed by the old designer, but unfortunately not yet. We are actively working on this. If you noticed, we have changed the methodology quite a bit in the new designer and we need to make sure we can translate every aspect of the desktop designer to the new way of things. That is some non-trivial amount of work and that is the reason for the delay. But rest assured, it will come soon. And during that time, you will be able to run flows from BOTH the designer!
2. As of now, its a manual re-write if you want to. When the Cloud Designer has the support, the "Open" link will automatically show up on all old desktop flows, and you should be able to modify the flows in the new cloud designer. You will however not be able to work in a flow created by the cloud designer on your desktop designer.
3. There no limitations such as the size etc.
Thank you for the prompt reply. :smileyhappy:
Is there any feedback on when it will be possible to convert desktop flows to cloud-based ones?