Skipping shapes

Introduction

When designing process flow, it can be useful to skip specific shapes to speed up the testing process - for example, you might skip a receiving connector shape so you're not pulling actual data for tests, and enter a small, manual payload instead.

When a shape is marked as skip, whatever the shape is designed to do does not happen - this step in the flow is ignored.

Need to know

• All shapes except the trigger shape can be skipped.

• You can skip any number of shapes in a process flow.

• Skipping a route shape or a try/catch shape effectively ends the flow run at that point since any defined routes won't start.

• When a shape is set to skip and then saved, that shape's appearance in the flow is faded and summary actions are crossed through - a skipped label is also shown.

• Skipped shapes show as warnings in logs with a flow step skipped message.

How to mark a shape as skipped

Step 1 In your process flow, click the 'settings' icon for the shape that you want to skip - for example:

Step 2 Set the skip toggle option (at the top of the settings drawer) to ON - for example:

Step 3 Save settings:

Step 4 Repeat for all shapes that you want to skip. These shapes are marked as skipped and their appearance is faded with summary actions crossed through - for example:

Step 5 Run/test your process flow as normal. In the run logs, you'll notice that any skipped shapes are noted as such - for example:

Step 6 When you're ready to reinstate a skipped shape, access shape settings and toggle the skip option back to OFF, then save changes.