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  1. Database Page

    1. Introduction

    2. Edit Records

    3. Edit Columns

    4. Add Record

    5. Add new column

    6. Import records

    7. Importing lists from a spreadsheet

    8. Importing dates from a spreadsheet

    9. Filter

    10. Delete records

    11. Delete columns

  2. Introduction

    1. What is a database?

    2. Database column data types

      1. Text

      2. Number

      3. Boolean

      4. Datetime

      5. List

    3. Interacting with databases

      1. Manually interacting with a database

      2. Interacting with a database via workflows

  3. Creating a new database

    1. Database configuration modes

      1. New empty database

      2. New database based on workflow

      3. New database with imported data

  4. Welcome to Workflow86

    1. What is Workflow86?

    2. First time using Workflow86?

      1. Get started now
    3. How do I use this component?

    4. Further support

  5. Terminology

    1. Workflow

    2. Component

    3. Connection

    4. Session

    5. Placeholder

    6. Other useful terms

  6. Subscription and Billing

    1. Free Trial

    2. Subscribing to a paid plan for the first time

      1. Set monthly or yearly billing

      2. Set number of Administrator/Editors and End Users

      3. Set the base plan level

    3. Changing your subscription and/or changing the number of licenses

      1. Only Administrator users can change subscriptions or billing
    4. Changing your number of licenses/seats

      1. You cannot have less than 2 Admins and 10 End Users

      2. Increasing your number of user seats

      3. Decreasing your number of user seats

    5. Changing your plan tier

      1. Upgrade your plan

      2. Downgrade your plan

      3. Cancel a downgrade before it is applied

      4. You may need to change your number of licenses/seats before switching plans

    6. Changing your billing frequency (monthly/annual)

    7. Confirming your change and purchase

    8. Changes to your licenses or plans will update pricing

    9. Change your billing details

  7. Setting timezone

    1. Setting the organization time zone

    2. Setting the user time zone

  8. Your user account

    1. First name and Surname

    2. Display name

    3. Username

    4. Organization/account

    5. Role

    6. Email

    7. Chaning your account password

    8. Timezone

  9. Recover your password

    1. Recovering your password

      1. I did not receive a code
  10. Organization Settings

    1. Organization details

      1. Change your organization name

      2. Change your organization timezone

      3. Remove Workflow86 branding

      4. Change your subscription or billing

    2. Usage monitoring

  11. Sign up/sign in with Google

    1. Create a Workflow86 account using Google

    2. Signing into Workflow86 with Google

  12. Introduction

    1. What is a workflow?

    2. Creating a new workflow

    3. Change workflow icon

    4. Deleting a workflow

  13. Workflow versioning

    1. Draft version

    2. Published version

    3. New draft version

    4. Switching between draft and published version views

    5. Restoring a previous version

    6. Form session to Workflow versioning

  14. Sending emails via SMTP

    1. Office 365

      1. Disable Security defaults

      2. Enable Authenticated SMTP

      3. Troubleshooting

    2. Gmail

      1. Enable 2-Step Verification

      2. Generate an app password

    3. Outlook

    4. Error handling

  15. Import a workflow template

  16. Internal placeholders

    1. Reference question answers in another question

      1. Inserting internal placeholders
  17. Testing a workflow

    1. How to test a workflow

      1. Test from any component
    2. Setting placeholder values for a test

      1. Set test values manually

      2. Use placeholder values from an existing session in a test run

      3. Testing from the Form or Upload Spreadsheet

    3. Viewing the test results

    4. How does the Assign Task work in a test session?

  18. Saving a workflow

    1. Save as version
  19. Deleting a workflow

  20. Unpublishing a workflow

  21. Publishing a workflow

    1. Check your access settings after publishing

    2. Add a comment

    3. How does publishing affect the versioning?

  22. Workflow folders

    1. Creating a folder

    2. Moving a workflow into a folder

    3. Moving multiple workflows into a folder

    4. Deleting a folder

    5. Subfolders

  23. Sharing a workflow

    1. ๐ŸŒ Share publicly

    2. ๐Ÿ”’ Share privately

    3. ๐Ÿ”— Share via link

    4. Generating share link

    5. Allow download

    6. What gets shared

      1. Connected databases
    7. Updating a shared workflow

    8. Unshare a workflow

  24. Running a workflow

    1. Switching to the Production canvas

    2. The Production canvas

    3. Starting a workflow from a non-trigger

      1. Manually setting the input values

      2. Importing the input values from a previous session

      3. Starting the workflow

      4. Running the draft version of a workflow (testing)

  25. Access to a workflow

    1. What is a user-facing component?

    2. Allow anyone to run the component

    3. Restrict a component to users only

    4. Example

    5. Can I control who can view/edit a workflow?

  26. Placeholders

    1. What is a placeholder?

    2. Inserting placeholders

    3. Types of placeholders

      1. Text

      2. Number

      3. List

      4. Datetime

      5. HTML

    4. Broken placeholders

  27. File Library

    1. Getting the link to a file

    2. Downloading a single file

    3. Downloading multiple files at once

    4. Deleting multiple files

    5. Manually uploading a file to store in the file library

  28. Credential store

    1. Email Credential (SMTP)

      1. ๐Ÿšฉ Additional set up steps for using SMTP
    2. Variable

    3. Changing a credential

    4. Delete a credential

      1. How secure is the credentials store?
  29. Connections

    1. What is a connection?

    2. How connections work

    3. How do I connect components together?

    4. Deleting a connection

    5. Is there a limit on the number of connections?

    6. Branching connections

    7. Merging connections

  30. Sessions

    1. What is a session?

    2. Viewing the sessions for a workflow

    3. Opening the progress view of a session

    4. Search workflow sessions

    5. Notification Emails

    6. Component status

      1. Success

      2. Waiting

      3. In Progress

      4. Terminated

      5. Error

    7. Find form sessions that have not been submitted

  31. Re-run, re-submit and retry a workflow

    1. Migrate data and run on the latest version (migration run)

      1. When should I perform a migration run?

      2. What happens when I perform a migration run?

      3. How to re-run a session in latest production version

    2. Re-run a component

      1. What happens when I re-run a workflow session?

      2. How to re-run a component

    3. Retry a failed component

    4. Re-submitting a task

  32. Electronic Record and Signature Disclosure

  33. Electronic Record and Signature Disclosure

    1. Getting paper copies

    2. Withdrawing your consent

    3. Consequences of changing your mind

    4. All notices and disclosures will be sent to you electronically

    5. How to contact Requesting Party:

    6. To advise Requesting Party of your new email address

    7. To request paper copies from Requesting Party

    8. To withdraw your consent with Requesting Party

    9. Acknowledging your access and consent to receive and sign documents electronically

    10. By clicking the "AGREE" button, you confirm that:

  34. Troubleshooting

    1. Error page when form is loaded

    2. Blank screen when form is loaded

    3. Data unable to be loaded

    4. My placeholders are not showing up

    5. Check the logs

    6. Check the access controls

    7. Check your subscription

    8. Share a problematic workflow with us

      1. Send us the template link
    9. How to open the developer console

      1. Chrome

      2. Edge

      3. Firefox

      4. Safari

  35. Contact us

    1. ๐Ÿ—ฃ Live chat (Recommended)

    2. ๐Ÿ“จ Email us

    3. ๐Ÿ“ฌ Send us a feature request

  36. Sequential Form

  37. Run code

    1. Technical details

    2. Step 1: Setting input variables

    3. Step 2: Write your code and map the outputs

    4. Step 3: Setting the placeholders to export

    5. Step 4: Perform a test run

    6. Debugging errors in your code

      1. Python
  38. AssertionError

  39. AttributeError

  40. FloatingPointError

  41. ImportError

  42. IndentationError

  43. IndexError

  44. KeyError

  45. MemoryError

  46. NameError

  47. OverflowError

  48. SyntaxError

  49. ZeroDivisionError

    1. Node.js

    2. Instructions for AI

  50. Email

    1. Send from email address

      1. Default email

      2. Sending emails from your own email service

    2. To

    3. Bcc and Cc

    4. Reply-to

    5. Subject line

    6. Attaching Files

    7. Message body

  51. Calculator

    1. Basic calculation

    2. Function

    3. Datetime calculations

    4. Adjusting decimal places

  52. Document Editor

    1. Selecting a document generation mode

      1. Generate documents using built-in text editor

      2. Generate documents by uploading a .docx template

      3. Generate documents via a placeholder

    2. Output file type

      1. Generate a .docx or PDF

      2. Where can I find the generated document?

  53. Assign Task

    1. What is a task?

    2. My Tasks page

    3. Notification method

      1. Notify via email

      2. Notify via task inbox

    4. Assigning the task

      1. What happens when a task is assigned?

      2. Assign to users

      3. Assign to external users via email

      4. Cc'ing others into task emails

      5. Setting a reply-to email

      6. Selecting a custom email address to send messages

    5. Setting the task details

      1. Task title and description

      2. Customizing the task status

    6. Send reminder emails

    7. Building the task page

      1. Using placeholders in the page
    8. Internal placeholders

      1. Exposing the page metadata
    9. Tracking your tasks on the My Tasks page

    10. Viewing the task details

      1. Editing task details

      2. Who can view what tasks?

    11. Terminate a task

      1. Terminate all tasks in a session

      2. Terminate an individual task

    12. Convert an Assign Task

    13. Completing or submitting a task

    14. Re-submitting a task

      1. What happens when I resubmit a task?

      2. How to enable tasks to be resubmitted

    15. External tasks

  54. List Transform

    1. Count a specific value

    2. Count if a condition is met

    3. Count length

    4. Filter based on a conditional

    5. Find and replace

    6. Join

    7. Remove empty values

    8. Remove duplicate values

    9. Extract by order

    10. Rearrange

    11. Randomly select

    12. Convert list to text

  55. Conditional Workflow

  56. Send Slack Message

    1. How to set up the Send Slack message component

        1. Getting a Webhook URL from Slack
        1. Enable Incoming Webhooks
        1. Create an Incoming Webhooks
        1. Setting up the Slack message component
    2. Tagging a user in a Slack message

  57. Schedule Start

    1. Start workflow at a certain date and time

    2. Start workflow at a time and day of the week

    3. Start workflow at a certain interval of time

  58. API Export

    1. API Export options

    2. API Export body

    3. Adding headers

  59. Advanced Run Code

  60. Content Library

    1. Adding a knowledge block

    2. Bulk uploading content into knowledge blocks

  61. Parse JSON

    1. Set the placeholder

    2. Copy and paste a sample to map

    3. Select the placeholders required

  62. Introduction

    1. What is a component?

    2. Editing, duplicating and deleting components

      1. Edit component

      2. Duplicating a single component

      3. Duplicating multiple components

      4. Deleting a component

      5. Saving a component

    3. Component terminology

      1. Input node

      2. Output node

    4. Types of components

      1. Trigger components

      2. Action components

  63. Run Concurrent Threads

    1. What is a ๐Ÿงต thread?

    2. Example use case

    3. Setting up the Run Concurrent Threads

    4. Output from the Run Concurrent Threads

    5. Limitations

      1. You cannot merge two Run Concurrent Threads components
  64. Conditional Workflow Paths

    1. Creating and setting up workflow paths
  65. Webhook Import

    1. What is a webhook?

    2. Select a method

    3. Send a sample to the Sample Endpoint URL

    4. Sample received

    5. Set placeholders

    6. Set the Production Endpoint URL

    7. Generating and setting the token

    8. How to set the token

    9. Finish

  66. Form Section

    1. Redirecting to a Form Section

    2. What happens when a form is redirected?

    3. Converting a Form Section

    4. Internal placeholders

  67. Trigger via email

    1. How it works

      1. Workflow must be published to trigger via email

      2. Incoming emails must be 10MB or less

      3. Emails may not trigger a workflow if detected as spam or junk

      4. Emails are deleted after 24 hours

  68. Merge Workflow

    1. Merging examples

      1. Merging to avoid duplication of tasks

      2. Merging to allow multiple triggers

    2. Merge if any component is run

    3. Merge if a combination of components is run

  69. Trigger a Zap

    1. ๐ŸŽฌ How to Trigger a Zap

    2. Set up Workflow trigger in Zapier

    3. Get component ID and token

    4. Set up data to send to Zapier

    5. Troubleshooting

  70. Conditional Logic

    1. Functions

    2. Adding a condition

    3. Adding an ELSE IF statement

    4. ELSE statement

    5. Configuring the output type

    6. Duplicating an entire logic block

    7. Duplicating a statement

  71. Session Variable

    1. Adding a new session variable

      1. Specify the data type
    2. Duplicating a session variable

    3. Deleting a session variable

  72. Form Builder

    1. Configuring questions

      1. Inserting a question

      2. Editing a question

      3. Deleting a question

      4. Duplicating a question

    2. Configuring pages

      1. Deleting pages
    3. Basic question settings

      1. Placeholder (previously "Key")

      2. Question text

      3. Description

    4. Advanced Settings

      1. Visibility

      2. Required

      3. Prefill the answer

      4. Comments

      5. Read Only

    5. Answer choices and answer values

    6. Get answer values from database

      1. Get answer option and answer value from same column

      2. Get answer option and answer value from different columns

    7. Previewing a form

    8. Saving a form session

    9. Viewing saved form sessions

    10. Redirect form after it is submitted

      1. Redirecting to a Form Section or Assign Task

      2. What happens on redirect?

      3. Combining linked forms with conditional workflow

    11. Form metadata

      1. Printing all questions and answers from a form
    12. Component Settings

      1. Adding prefixes to placeholders

      2. Changing format of the formSubmittedDate timestamp

    13. Styling

      1. Setting a cover image

      2. Setting a logo

    14. Form Settings

      1. Submission message

      2. View, edit and resubmit forms after submitting

      3. Allow the user to start a new submission after finishing the form

      4. Allow user to save their response

      5. Auto-save forms

      6. Allow user to submit their response

    15. Annotations

      1. Turn on annotations

      2. Annotating a form or task

      3. Adding an annotation

      4. Editing and deleting comments in a thread

      5. Closing and re-opening threads

    16. Convert a Form

    17. Internal placeholders

  73. Update Database Record

    1. Configuring records to be updated

    2. Updating multiple records at once

    3. What happens if there is an error?

  74. E-signature

    1. How to set up the e-signature

      1. E-signature placeholders

      2. E-signature metadata

    2. How to print the e-signature in a document

    3. Electronic Record and Signature Disclosure

  75. Trigger from Zapier

    1. Step 1 Choose Workflow86 app in Zapier

    2. Step 2 Copy and paste endpoint and token into Zapier

    3. Step 3 Send a sample from Zapier to Workflow86

    4. Step 4 Sample Received

    5. Step 5 Map placeholders

    6. Step 6 Set the Production Endpoint URL

    7. Step 7 Skip test action in Zapier

    8. Step 8 Set up completed

    9. What if I want to change the data from Zapier to Workflow86?

  76. Query Database

    1. Configuring the query

    2. Query and return all values in a column

    3. Query and return values if a condition is met

    4. Changing the query database output format

  77. Trigger from another workflow/Trigger another workflow

    1. Set up the Source Workflow

      1. Point the Source Workflow and component to the Target

      2. Configure the placeholders to sent to the Target

    2. Set up the Target Workflow

      1. Select the Source Workflow and component

      2. Establish a connection to the Source Workflow and component

    3. Updating for changes in the Source Workflow

  78. API Request and Response

    1. Setting up the request

      1. Request type

      2. Data type

      3. Endpoint URL

      4. Body

      5. Custom headers

    2. Setting up the sample request

    3. Sending the sample request

    4. Response received

    5. Set up placeholders

    6. Finish

  79. Create Database Record

    1. Configuring the record to be created

    2. Output from the create record component

    3. What happens if there is an error when creating a record?

  80. Form conversion

    1. Duplicate then convert to preserve component settings
  81. Time Delay

    1. Delay until certain time has elapsed

    2. Delay until certain time and day of the week

    3. Delay until a specific date and time

  82. Assign Task

    1. What is a task?

    2. Task inbox

    3. Configuring a task

    4. Notification method

      1. Notify via email

      2. Notify via task inbox

    5. Assigning the task

      1. What happens when a task is assigned?

      2. Assign to users

      3. Assign to external users via email

      4. Cc'ing others into task emails

      5. Setting a reply-to email

      6. Selecting a custom email address to send messages

    6. Setting the task details

      1. Task title and description

      2. Customizing the task status

    7. Send reminder emails

    8. Building the task page

      1. Using placeholders in the page
    9. Internal placeholders

      1. Exposing the page metadata
    10. Convert an Assign Task

  83. Form Section

    1. Redirecting to a Form Section

    2. What happens when a form is redirected?

    3. Converting a Form Section

    4. Internal placeholders

  84. Form Builder

    1. Configuring questions

      1. Inserting a question

      2. Editing a question

      3. Deleting a question

      4. Duplicating a question

    2. Configuring pages

      1. Deleting pages
    3. Basic question settings

      1. Placeholder (previously "Key")

      2. Question text

      3. Description

    4. Advanced Settings

      1. Visibility

      2. Required

      3. Prefill the answer

      4. Comments

      5. Read Only

    5. Answer choices and answer values

    6. Get answer values from database

      1. Get answer option and answer value from same column

      2. Get answer option and answer value from different columns

    7. Previewing a form

    8. Saving a form session

    9. Viewing saved form sessions

    10. Redirect form after it is submitted

      1. Redirecting to a Form Section or Assign Task

      2. What happens on redirect?

      3. Combining linked forms with conditional workflow

    11. Form metadata

      1. Printing all questions and answers from a form
    12. Component Settings

      1. Adding prefixes to placeholders

      2. Changing format of the formSubmittedDate timestamp

    13. Styling

      1. Setting a cover image

      2. Setting a logo

    14. Form Settings

      1. Submission message

      2. View, edit and resubmit forms after submitting

      3. Allow the user to start a new submission after finishing the form

      4. Allow user to save their response

      5. Auto-save forms

      6. Allow user to submit their response

    15. Annotations

      1. Turn on annotations

      2. Annotating a form or task

      3. Adding an annotation

      4. Editing and deleting comments in a thread

      5. Closing and re-opening threads

    16. Convert a Form

    17. Internal placeholders

  85. Task inbox

    1. Completing or submitting a task

    2. Terminate a task

    3. Re-submitting a task

      1. What happens when I resubmit a task?

      2. How to enable tasks to be resubmitted

    4. Viewing the task details

      1. Editing the details of a task

      2. Who can view what tasks in the inbox?

    5. External tasks

  86. Converting forms to tasks

    1. Duplicate then convert to preserve component settings
  87. Fields and Questions

    1. Short Text

    2. Long Text

    3. Rich Text Editor

      1. Pre-set content inside of the editor
    4. Number Input

    5. Content Block

    6. E-signature

    7. File preview

    8. Radio Button

    9. Dropdown

    10. Checkbox

    11. List

    12. Calendar

    13. Repeatable section

      1. Configuring a question in a section

      2. Repeatable section JSON output

    14. Table

      1. Selecting the output format

      2. Perform calculations using table cells

      3. Set cells to be required

      4. Set cells to be read only

      5. Disable cells

      6. Setting a default value for a cell

    15. Upload file

    16. Map

  88. Forms library

  89. Notes

    1. What are notes?

    2. What can I do with notes?

      1. Map out, diagram and brainstorm before you build

      2. Comments, notes, instructions and other documentation

      3. Swimlanes

    3. Working with notes

      1. Create a note

      2. Edit a note

      3. Move a note around

      4. Save a note

      5. Changing the background color

      6. Changing the size of a note

      7. Duplicating a note

      8. Deleting a note

    4. Writing notes

    5. Show/hide notes on the canvas

    6. Map a Zap

      1. Share a Zap

      2. Map a Zap in Workflow86

  90. Run your first workflow

    1. Open the workflow

    2. Publish the workflow

    3. Run the workflow

    4. Complete the workflow

    5. Inspect the workflow session

    6. That's it. You've run your first workflow!

  91. Edit your first workflow

    1. Add a new question to the form

    2. Add a new component to the workflow

    3. Configure the document editor

    4. Configure the email

    5. Start your new workflow

    6. Check the outputs

    7. You have just edited your first workflow!

  92. Starting from a blank workflow

    1. Create a new workflow

      1. I want to document a workflow

      2. I'll build on my own

      3. Help me build a workflow step-by-step

      4. Chat to a process engineer

    2. Learning about how each component works

      1. ๐Ÿ“š Component Guides ๐Ÿ“š
    3. Import interactive guides from the marketplace

      1. ๐Ÿ›’ Marketplace Guides ๐Ÿ›’
  93. AI Component Builder and Editor

  94. AI Workflow Editor

  95. Introduction to Workflow86 AI

  96. AI Workflow Builder

  97. AI Component Builder and Editor

  98. AI Notes

  99. User Roles

    1. Owner

    2. Administrator

    3. Editor

    4. End User

    5. Disabled

  100. Changing user roles

  101. Disabling a user

  102. Inviting users

    1. Inviting new users to your organization

    2. Assigning invited users a role

    3. Fixing invitations that were not successful