Walk through a workflow and its journeys

Follow a flow by hand, choosing a branch at every decision, and see every journey from start to end.

In short

Walk through a workflow by hand, choosing a branch at every decision, to check it reads right. Journeys lists every way through the flow, and the ones you name become its acceptance scenarios.

Before you start

• Who: anyone who can open the workflow.
• Plan: Designer is part of every plan, Free included. The Free plan limits how many designs a workspace keeps; Plan & usage shows the limit and what you hold. Journeys use no AI.
• First: finish the flow with at least one success or error step so there are journeys to walk.

Walk through a workflow

1. Open a workflow, choose "Review" and then "Walk through".
2. Press "Start walking". The panel shows the step: who does it, the permission it needs, its inputs with their rules and its outputs.
3. Choose where to go next - the next step, a condition, otherwise or an error path. The steps you walked light up on the canvas.
4. Go back one step to try another branch, and finish at a success or an error.

Use journeys

1. Open the "Journeys" tab: every way from a start to an end, with how many end in a success and how many in an error.
2. Press "Show on the canvas" to mark a journey's steps, or "Walk it" to start a walkthrough at its beginning.
3. Name the journeys that matter. Named journeys are the flow's acceptance scenarios.

Good to know

• Journeys are worked out without AI. Each loop is taken at most once, and the list stops at 200 journeys.
• When the flow changes so a named journey no longer exists, it says so and you can forget it.
• The AI implementation prompt turns every journey into Given / When / Then acceptance criteria.
• "Present" under "Show" shows each journey with its steps lit up one by one. See /help/designer/present-a-design.
• A named journey can become a draft UI test. See /help/designer/draft-ui-tests.

If something goes wrong

• "Add a start step to walk the flow.": a flow needs a start step before you can walk it. Use "Start at" to choose between several.
• "This step leads nowhere. Connect it, or make it a success or an error.": connect the step to the next one.
• "The flow changed under this walk. Start again to follow it as it is now.": press "Start again".
• To go back one step, press "Back one step". To end the walk, press "Stop walking".

Related

• /help/designer/design-a-workflow
• /help/designer/export-and-implementation-prompt
• /help/designer/design-to-tests