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Designing a Flow
Design, create, run, and manage dataflows. Find reference information here for both control and module stages.
Control Stages
Transformer stage transform types
Changing the Order of Transforms

Welcome
Use workflows to perform tasks that integrate Spectrum Technology Platform, applications, and content repositories into business processes.
Getting Started
Install Spectrum Enterprise Designer and learn about creating dataflows.
Designing a Flow
Design, create, run, and manage dataflows. Find reference information here for both control and module stages.
- Types of Flows
- Flow Input
- Fields
- Control Stages
  - Aggregator
    Aggregator converts flat data to hierarchical data. It takes input data from a single source, creates a schema (a structured hierarchy of data) by grouping the data based on fields you specify, then constructs the groups in the schema.
  - Broadcaster
  - Conditional Router
  - Group Statistics
  - Math
  - Record Combiner
  - Record Joiner
  - Sorter
  - Splitter
  - Stream Combiner
  - Transformer stage transform types
  - Unique ID Generator
- Module Stages
- Flow Output
  Output stages are also known as Sinks and Write-to stages.
- Embedded flows
- Reports
- Performance Considerations
- Flow Versions
  The Versions feature in Spectrum Enterprise Designer allows you to keep a revision history of your flows. You can view previous versions of a flow, expose older versions for execution, and keep a history of your changes in case you ever need to revert to a previous version of a flow.
Inspecting and Testing
Check and test flows.
Running a Flow
Configure runtime options, expose services, and run flows in a production environment.
Combining Flows into a Process Flow
Combine separate flows into a single process and run external applications.
Creating Reusable Flow Components
Create subflows that can be reused in other dataflows.
Sample Flows
An example shows how a flow is applied to a real world problem.
About Spectrum Technology Platform
An overview of Spectrum, its data management architecture, its platform architecture, and its modules and components.

Changing the Order of Transforms

If you have more than one transform to run on a particular output field, you can define the order in which they run.

Note: If you map a single field to two different output fields (for example, ValidateAddress.City to Output.City1 and ValidateAddress.City to Output.City2), and you add transforms to each field, the transform for the secondary field must be run first. You must change the order of the transforms to run the second field transform (Output.City2) first.

Double-click the Transformer stage. The Transformer Options dialog box appears.
Select a transform and use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to rearrange the order of the transforms. Spectrum Flow Designer funs the top transform first.

Note: Dependent transforms cannot be moved above primary transforms (the transforms upon which the dependent transforms rely).
Click OK.