Boomi Flow Documentation

Boomi Flow (formerly, ManyWho) is a low-code platform for app development. With Boomi Flow, we can create and deploy secure, scalable, mobile-ready apps using our existing IT infrastructure, and third-party services like Salesforce. The documentation here shows us how to build apps that work online or offline with computers, mobile devices like tablets or phones, even smartwatches or an intelligent car.

• Looking for things you can do with the Flow API? You’ve got to check out the Flow reference documentation.
• Wondering how to build an end-to-end implementation? Is easier than you think! See this implementation guide of how we built a smart farm IoT app.
• Did you know you can store Flow runtime data in your own storage? See how here.
• Multi-region support? Why, yes, of course!
• Looking for workflow patterns? Here’s one for you.

Happy building!

Step 1: Single-screen app
Step 2: Adding multiple screens
Step 3: Adding navigation
Installing the ManyWho Identity service
Building branded apps
Quickest email approval app in the world

Working with the Flow drawing tool
Working with the canvas
Expanding the menu
The page layout menu and navigation
Adding builder comments to elements
Authenticating app users

Tutorial: Leo’s choice (Routing and rules)
Tutorial: Building a form
Tutorial: Getting user input
Tutorial: Sending a mail with attachments
Tutorial: Uploading files in Box using an app
Tutorial: Starting a flow from a text message
Tutorial: TextBot app with Twilio
Tutorial: Text-to-Speech (TTS) app with Twilio
Tutorial: Salesforce Lead manager app
Tutorial: Using Flow with AtomSphere

Elements (Flow building blocks)
Starting with the Start element
Know your map elements
Design thinking – Map elements
Identifying elements – Name, Label, ID
Duplicating an element
Searching for elements
Editing element metadata
Elements – Naming convention
Flow – Quick concepts
Flow – Glossary
Flow – API endpoints
Flow – Live platform status
Flow – Reference documentation
Flow – Repositories
Flow – Listeners
Finding the Flow Run URL
Finding the Flow ID
Finding the Flow Version ID
Everything you want to know about Version ID
Rolling back to a previous flow version
Flow insights with Dashboard
Changelog

Creating a new flow
Editing flow properties
Renaming a flow
Saving a flow
Deleting a flow
Running a flow
Running instances of a flow (flow states)
Publishing a flow
Importing a flow
Exporting a flow
Exporting a flow – without passwords
Sharing a flow
Using tokens to share a flow
Restricting access to a flow
Debugging a flow
Creating subflows
Executing subflows in parallel
Working with Date/Time in Flow
Configuring user approvals with voting

Tutorial: Passing values using flow out
Tutorial: Sending inputs to a flow
Tutorial: Listening for file downloads
Tutorial: Using iFrames
Tutorial: Adding and subtracting numbers

Creating outcomes
Editing an outcome
Deleting an outcome

Redirecting an outcome
Changing outcome order (Previous button)
Changing the color of buttons
Displaying buttons with icons

Tutorial: Connecting a web page

Creating steps

Editing a step

Deleting a step

Everything you want to know about values
Creating a value
Editing a value
Deleting a value
Importing a value

Values — Access options
Values — Dependencies
Values — Not allowing changes
Versioning values

Setting a default value/Prepopulating a value
Displaying the data of a system value
Working with configuration object values

Creating custom types
Editing a type
Deleting a type

Importing a type
Types – Dependencies
Modifying a type generated by a service

Tutorial: Types with aliens

Creating an object 
Editing an object 
Deleting an object
Objects — Dependencies

Creating a list
Creating a picklist

Tutorial: Using a combo box
Tutorial: Using loops to filter list data
Tutorial: Searchable agenda app

Everything you want to know about navigation
Building a menu with navigation
Editing a navigation
Deleting a navigation

Creating a sub-navigation
Setting up breadcrumbs in navigation

Disabling navigation for select elements
Hiding navigation for select elements
Deleting a navigation override
Customizing the navigation bar

Everything you want to know about assets

Adding an asset
Renaming an asset
Deleting an asset

Building branded apps

Creating a decision

Deleting a decision

Working with the operator element

Creating an operator

Working with the message element

Creating a different flow path for errors

Creating a swimlane

Deleting a swimlane

Creating a macro
Deleting a macro

Macros – Finding the ID
Macros – Supported methods

Tutorial: Using a JavaScript macro

Creating a page layout
Saving a page layout
Previewing a page
Deleting a page layout
Importing a page layout
Cloning page layouts
Finding the ID of a page layout
Page layout — Dependencies
Making a column editable in a table
Page layout – Configuring selective search
Adding a new container
Containers — Creating columns
Working with page conditions
Editing page conditions
Deleting page conditions

Page layout — Hidden
Page layout — Presentation
Page layout — List
Page layout — Outcomes
Page layout — Image
Page layout — Input
Page layout — Radio
Page layout — Toggle
Page layout — Text
Page layout — Rich text
Page layout — Combo box
Page layout — File upload
Page layout — Table
Page layout — Tiles
Page layout — Charts

Tutorial: Using page conditions

Working with the Flow player
Creating a new player
Deleting a player
Using the same player in a different tenant
Changing the title of the app
Embedding the Flow player
Flow player – Supported configurations
Flow player – Localization settings
NEW  Turning on location in flows
Changing the color of buttons
Displaying buttons with icons
Enabling the time picker

Understanding the Flow UI framework
Flow UI framework – Supported bundles
Locking to a specific UI version
Using themes
Creating a custom theme
Adding custom JavaScript and stylesheets
Adding custom style to an app
Ways to change the app UI
Customizing the Flow spinner

Tutorial: Custom component – Click to call
Creating a basic container
Creating a custom component
Overriding a default component
Custom style for components
The three states of custom components
Components : Client side validation
Enabling client side validation
Custom validation of components
Player for a video background

Tenants and subtenants
Creating a new subtenant
Switching between tenants/subtenants

Updating to multi-tenant login
Finding the Tenant ID
Deleting a tenant

Resetting the builder password
Resetting the password of a user
Adding builders to a tenant
Deleting a builder
Listing builders in a tenant using the API
Restricting access by IP address

Quick start – Service element
List of Boomi Flow service URLs
Importing a service
Verifying the service of a flow
Renaming a service
Deleting a service
Refreshing a service

Features supported by services
Features list of each service
Services — Dependencies
Building a service
Debugging a service locally

Installing the ManyWho Runtime service
Installing the ManyWho Email service

Quick start – Salesforce integration
Configuring Salesforce
Using Salesforce for authentication
Setting up the Salesforce player
Cloning the ManyWho Visualforce page
Hard coding the Flow ID in Visualforce
Setting up the Service Console
Finding the Salesforce base URL
Finding the Consumer Key and Secret
Finding the ManyWhoFlow Visualforce page

Changing authentication to ‘SuperUser’
Finding the Salesforce authentication URL
Popping Console tabs using a flow
Running a flow from the Visualforce page
Using Salesforce for authentication
Linking Chatter posts to running flows

Tutorial: Salesforce Lead manager app
Tutorial: Using flows as Salesforce records
Tutorial: Using flows as console components
Tutorial: Embedding a flow in a Chatter action
Tutorial: Passing a Record ID to a flow
Tutorial: Passing data from Salesforce to a flow
Embedding a flow in a Console tab

Quick start – Box integration

Configuring Box
Listeners supported in Box

Tutorial: Uploading files in Box using an app
Tutorial: Using listeners to wait for a file

Quick start – Twilio integration

Configuring Twilio

Tutorial: Starting a flow from a text message
Tutorial: TextBot app with Twilio
Tutorial: Text-to-Speech (TTS) app with Twilio

Creating a team site in SharePoint

Installing the SharePoint service
Installing the Flow app in SharePoint
Uninstalling the Flow app

Tutorial: User restrictions with SharePoint
Tutorial: Embedding a flow in SharePoint

Configuring the Flow Azure service

Tutorial: Creating restricted flows

Configuring Exchange email service
Configuring Google Apps email service

Tutorial: Using the ManyWho email Service

Tutorial: Sending mails with Google Apps
Tutorial: Sending mails using ManyWho Email
Tutorial: Sending a mail with attachments

Configuring the PDF service

Tutorial: App to populate PDF forms

Configuring the Timer service

Scheduling a flow to wait

Working with Flow state data

Implementing Flow reporting on Postgres

Report SDK for Java & Postgres

Salesforce
Salesforce Einstein
SharePoint
SQL
Box UI components
Google Charts
Databases

Box
Twilio
Timer
Email
PDF
SAML 2.0

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