What license do I need to use this feature?
You'll need a Deployment Starter, Teams or Enterprise license to use Flow Navigator.

When you’re comparing a Flow, it's difficult to work out what’s changed from the XML. Location changes add lots of noise and the XML can seem out of order, making it hard to spot unwanted changes.

Gearset's Flow Navigator makes it easy to see what's new, changed, and deleted. This helps you spot any unexpected differences before deployment. Click the Flow button in your comparison results to get started.

An overview of the changes

Flow Navigator starts with a high-level overview of the changes to the Flow.

The sidebar shows which elements and resources have changed

The sidebar shows the Flow versions that the comparison used. Alongside this is the status of that Flow version, either Draft or Active. This helps you verify that you're comparing the Flow version where you made your changes.

Gearset compares Flow version 3 in the source against Flow version 10 in the target. The Flow is draft in both the source and target.

Below this, the sidebar breaks the Flow into the individual elements and resources. Next to each element and resource is an icon that shows whether it's new, changed, or deleted. This makes it easy to find unexpected changes, such as an element you didn't plan to delete.

The Flow Navigator sidebar shows a collection of new, changed and deleted elements.

You can turn off the Hide no differences toggle to see unchanged elements and resources. Elements appear as unchanged when they are identical aside from location changes.

The interactive diagram shows where the changes are in the Flow

The main panel in Flow Navigator shows an interactive diagram of your Flow. This makes it easy to explore where new and changed elements fit into your Flow.

The diagram shows 2 new elements highlighted in green and 2 changed elements highlighted in orange.

The diagram shows the Flow as it exists in the source, with highlighting to show changes:

green highlighting shows a new element
orange highlighting shows a changed or reordered element
deleted elements do not appear on the Flow diagram
unchanged elements are not highlighted

The diagram behaves in a similar way to Salesforce Flow Builder. You can zoom in and out, and drag to pan around.

To drill down into the changes for an element, click the element in the diagram or in the sidebar. To switch between the diagram and the element details, use the Flow and Element tabs.

A detailed view of the changes

The element view shows how elements and resources have changed

When you drill down into an element, the main panel shows the changes to that element. Flow Navigator shows a visual representation of the changes to most elements. This means you don't need to read through XML to work out what's changed.

In this example, we've added a new email action.

Flow Navigator shows a new action element and its input values.

Here, we've changed an input value on an email action.

Flow Navigator shows a Action element with a change to one of its input values.

This decision element has a new outcome.

Flow Navigator shows a Decision element with a new outcome.

We've removed this update records element.

Flow Navigator shows a deleted Update Records element.

Try it out

Flow Navigator is available for all screen flows and autolaunched flows.

Is there something missing or would you like to get access to Flow Navigator?
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