You can use the manual payload shape to define a static payload to be used for onward processing. For example, you might define an email template that gets pushed into an email connection, or you might want to test a process flow for a connector that's currently being built by your development team.
The maximum number of characters for a single payload is 100k. Anything larger than this may cause the process flow to fail.
Any text-based data format is supported (JSON, XML, CSV, plain)) however, keep in mind that subsequent shapes in the flow may only support JSON and XML.
To view/update the settings for an existing manual payload shape, click the associated 'cog' icon:
This opens the options panel - for example:
To configure a manual payload shape, all you need to do is paste the required payload and save the shape for example:
A manual payload shape can only be saved if a payload is present. If you add a manual payload shape but don't have the required payload immediately to hand, you can just enter {}and save.
