Flow Builder Overview

This section will give you an overall idea about how to use the Channel Automation flow builder. You can open a flow and try side by side when you learn it.

 

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Flow, Sub Flow and Step

 

 

Flow Type

To begin with, you need to create a flow. Currently, Channel Automation provides you with 11 types of flow:

 

 

Sub Flow Type

Flow consists of sub flows. There are 3 types of sub flow: 

 

Step Type

Sub Flow consists of steps. There are 8 types of steps:

 

 

The differences among different types of flow are Flow Setup, Send Message Step and Question Step. Each channel has its own limitation of message types. For example, you can display a product gallery in Facebook Messenger while the SMS channel doesn't support that.

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