Declare Dependencies

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Declare Dependencies

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Is there a way that, for a flow that is called RESTfully by an external app, to add a "declared" dependency to annotate this? Or a better way to indicate that the flow is used (not orphaned)?
[i]edited by Jeff Humphry on 3/18/2020[/i]

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We can use Tags to indicate that the Flow is being used. For instance we can add a tag that would say "Rest Flow".
-To add tags to a flow right-click the flow>Add>Setup>Managed Tags
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-This will open a window. We can add existing tags or type a new tag in the text box.
-Users will be asked if they want to "Create a new tag" if the tag they input does not exist already.
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-Once we are done the tag will be applied to the Flow.
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This will indicate to users that this Flow is being used.

If this is not what you were looking for can we please get more clarification on the use case.
[i]edited by faiza@decisions.com on 3/18/2020[/i]
[i]edited by faiza@decisions.com on 3/18/2020[/i]

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Hi Faiza,\r\n\r\nI was looking for something to show up in the dependency browser to make it painfully obvious that the flow is not orphaned. I saw that you can declare a \"Comment Dependency\

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Hello Jeff!
The Dependency Browser only shows the relationship between steps. I will put in a feature request for Dependency browsers to show the relationship between steps and API calls.
As a workaround, we can create a placeholder flow, naming it the external service that is calling the "RESTfully" flow.

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This will show that the RestFully Flow is being used by something.
[i]edited by faiza@decisions.com on 3/19/2020[/i]
[i]edited by faiza@decisions.com on 3/19/2020[/i]

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Thanks, but I dont know how you could add that as a feature - Theres no way that Decisions could know about what external apps are calling it.

But what is the comment dependency?

Your temporary solution is very clever though!
[i]edited by Jeff Humphry on 3/19/2020[/i]

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Hi Jeff,

If we were to put in a feature request, it would notify our developers and they would be able to look to see if we have a way to display the relationship with an external system in the Browser dependencies.
Also, I wanted to confirm that you declared the "comment dependency" by right-clicking the flow>Dependencies>declared>Add Comment dependency. If so, did you add a comment that was part of the current project. If this was not the method you used, can you provide information on how use added the comment dependency? Thank you.

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I couldnt figure out how to add a comment or a comment dependency.