Boomi Flow Documentation

New Boomi Flow Documentation now on help.boomi.com

We are excited to announce that the sixth wave of the new Boomi Flow documentation has now been released, fully integrated into the help.boomi.com User Guide. Content highlights include a guide to using the Azure AD service in Boomi Flow to communicate with your Microsoft Azure AD identity and access management (IAM) implementation. New content will be released regularly as we work hard to replace the existing Boomi Flow documentation site.

View the new Boomi Flow content in the Boomi AtomSphere User Guide

Boomi Flow 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!

Quick start

See Getting Started on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

Flow basics

See Getting Started on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

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
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

Playing with Flow building blocks

Outcomes

See Outcomes on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

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

Steps

See Step map elements on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

Deleting a step

Values

See Values on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

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

Types

See Types on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

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

Objects and lists

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

Navigations

See Navigation on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

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

Assets

See Assets on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

Everything you want to know about assets

Adding an asset
Renaming an asset
Deleting an asset

Building branded apps

Decisions

See Decision map elements on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

Creating a decision

Deleting a decision

Operators

See Operator map elements on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

Working with the operator element

Creating an operator

Messages

See Message map elements on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

Working with the message element

Creating a different flow path for errors

Swimlanes

See Swimlane group elements on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

Creating a swimlane

Deleting a swimlane

Macros

See Macros on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

Creating a macro
Deleting a macro

Macros – Finding the ID
Macros – Supported methods

Tutorial: Using a JavaScript macro

Pages

See Page layouts on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

Flow players and app design

See Players and CSS reference on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

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

Working with Flow tenants and subtenants

See Tenants on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

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

Third-party service integrations/Microservices

See Services on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

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

Salesforce

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

Box

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

Twilio

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

SharePoint

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

Microsoft Azure

See Azure AD service on help.boomi.com for the new documentation on this feature.

Configuring the Flow Azure service

Tutorial: Creating restricted flows

Email service

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

PDF service

Configuring the PDF service

Tutorial: App to populate PDF forms

Timer service

Configuring the Timer service

Scheduling a flow to wait

Reporting: Get metrics on your apps

Working with Flow state data

Implementing Flow reporting on Postgres

Report SDK for Java & Postgres

Supported projects

Salesforce
Salesforce Einstein
SharePoint
SQL
Box UI components
Google Charts
Databases

Box
Twilio
Timer
Email
PDF
SAML 2.0

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Slack
Azuqua
AWS S3
Cordova
QR Code Reader
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