Flow Designer - Technical Preview Version

The Spectrum Technology Platform Team is pleased to add more stages to the preview of its web-based Flow Designer. You can launch Flow Designer from the Spectrum Welcome Page after you have installed Release 2020.1.0.

This preview version allows you to work with these stages:
  • Read from File
  • Read from XML
  • Read from Spreadsheet
  • Read from DB
  • Write to File
  • Write to XML
  • Write to Spreadsheet
  • Write to DB
  • SQL Command
  • Record Joiner
  • Query DB
  • Unique ID
  • DB Loader
  • Field Selector
  • Filter
  • Match Key Generator
  • Write to Search Index
  • Intraflow Match
  • Best of Breed
  • Generate Time Dimension

For more information, see the Flow Designer guide.

As you explore the Flow Designer, keep these things in mind:

  • If you find yourself thinking, "It would be great if I could…," let us know what you want to do. You can Get in touch with us and submit an enhancement request or post your ideas.
  • This version does not include all stages currently supported in Enterprise Designer. You will see a descriptive message if you try to open an unsupported stage in Flow Designer.
    Note: Although we encourage you to use this preview version of Flow Designer in your production environment, know that we cannot provide standard service level agreement (SLA) for preview versions of our software. Additionally, we cannot guarantee that the work you do with the preview version will migrate to future releases.
  • Custom Transforms are configurable through Enterprise Designer for this release. You can save those transforms and use them in Flow Designer jobs. Note that multiple Custom Transforms are not supported in this preview version.

If you are new to Spectrum and have not had experience with Enterprise Designer, our previous workflow solution, you may need some explanation of the terms used in the product.

  • Flows ("workflows," in previous releases) are prebuilt or custom processes that contain stages. Flows don't need to stand alone: you can integrate them into other jobs and services to perform specialized processing.
  • Stages represent units of functionality such as data input, data output, aggregation, filtering, sampling, reporting, and geocoding. Though flows can become quite large in size, you can think of them as a series of connected stages, operations, or tasks.