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Activate or Deactivate a Flow
You can activate or deactivate a flow from the Automation app Flows tab or the Flow Builder canvas.
Required Editions
| View supported editions. |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To open, edit, create, activate or deactivate a flow using all flow types, elements, and features available in Flow Builder, including Einstein and Agentforce for Flow: | Manage Flow |
| To activate an autolaunched flow that has a trigger: | View All Data |
When you activate a flow version, any previously activated version is deactivated. However, any running flow interview continues to the version that it started with.
If you activate a flow in a sandbox and then move it to production, you can't click the Activate button until you save the flow as a new version. Because sandbox orgs and production orgs can have differences, including properties and IDs, always debug the flow using rollback mode after moving it from a sandbox to production.
From the Automation App
You can activate or deactivate a flow from the Automation App. If you don't see the app in the App Launcher, check that Enable the Automation Lightning App is selected in Process Automation Settings.
- From the Automation app, select the Flows tab.
- Click the label of the flow you want to activate or deactivate to open the flow's details page.
- Click the Related tab to view the list of the flow's versions.
- Select the flow version and click the pull-down menu to activate or deactivate.
From the Flow Builder Canvas
You can activate or deactivate a flow directly from the Flow Builder canvas.
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Open the Flows list view.
- From the Automation app, select the Flows tab.
- From the Flows tab in any Lightning app, click the actions menu and select Open Flow.
- From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Flows, and then select Flows.
Note that the Automation app and Flows tab options don't require Setup access. - To open the flow version you want to activate or deactivate, click the flow label.
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Activate or deactivate your flow.
- To activate your flow, click Activate in the button bar.
- To deactivate your flow, click Deactivate in the button bar.
