Import Flow

An exported flow can be imported into  Designer Cloud Enterprise Edition.

• Dev instance: If you are using an instance of the platform for developing and testing your flows, you can import a new flow through the Flows page. 

  NOTE: Unless your instance of the platform has been specifically configured to support deployment management, you are using a Dev instance of the platform.

  NOTE: If you are attempting to share a flow with other users on the same instance of the platform, you should use the sharing functions. See Overview of Sharing.

• Prod instance: If you are importing a flow into a Production instance of the platform, you import it as a package through the Deployments page.

  NOTE: Deployment management is a feature that enables segmentation of platform usage between Dev instances and Prod instances. This feature must be enabled and configured. For more information, see Overview of Deployment Management.

Limitations

Imported flows do not contain the following objects:

• Reference datasets
• Samples

• Connections

  NOTE: Exported flows do not contain connections. If your flow relies on a connection to the source, you must create the connection in the new environment and create an import mapping rule to assign the local connection ID to the import package. Flows that do not require connections may not require remapping before import. See Define Import Mapping Rules.

  NOTE: If the flow's output object uses connections that are not used for importing datasets in the flow, the output is broken on import. Those outputs and their associated connections must be recreated in the environment into which the flow is imported.

Define import rules

Before you import a package, you may need to create import mapping rules to apply to your package. For example, if the Development data is stored in a different location than the Production data, you may need to create import rules to remap paths and connections to use to acquire the data from the Production environment. 

For more information, see Define Import Mapping Rules.

Import

Steps:

1. Export the flow from the source system. See Export Flow.
2. Login to the import system, if needed.
3. Click Flows.
4. From the context menu in the Flow page, select Import Flow.
5. Select the ZIP file containing the exported flow. Click Open.

The flow is imported and available for use in the Flows page.

Import into Prod instance

After creating any import rules in your Prod instance, please do the following.

Steps:

1. Export the flow from the source system. See Export Flow.
2. Login to the Prod instance.
3. Click Deployments.
4. Select or create the deployment into which to import the package.
5. Within the deployment, click Import Package.
6. Select the ZIP file containing the exported flow. Click Open.
   1. Any defined import rules are applied to the package during import.
   2. The package is selected as the active one for the deployment.