Status of Flows
The different statuses of the flow during their lifecycle are described as follows. The status is visible on the All Flows page. Filter the flows based on similar status. The current status of the flow is displayed in the top right corner for all the opened flows.
The following are the status of flows.
Flow Status | Flow Entry Type | Description | Possible Next Action |
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Draft | When a flow is created or saved before publishing |
Edit Duplicate |
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Scheduled |
All |
When the flow is published, and user entry is scheduled at a defined date and time in future. |
Edit Duplicate Pause Stop |
Active | Event-Triggered or Previous Flow exit | When the flow is published and the scheduled time has started |
Edit Duplicate Pause Stop Retire
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Time-based Entry | When users are entering the flow | ||
Before the schedule of a periodic flow expires. |
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When all the users have entered a one-time entry flow |
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When there are active trips in a flow |
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Paused | All |
When the flow is paused. |
Edit Duplicate Resume |
Stopped | All | When a flow is stopped. | Duplicate |
Retired |
All |
When a flow is retired. |
Duplicate |
Completed
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Time-Based Entry |
When:
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Duplicate |
Event-Triggered or Previous Flow exit |
When there are no active Flow trips and the scheduled End Date and Time are in the past |
Duplicate |
You can Pause, Stop and Retire flows. Scheduled, Completed, and Active is defined by MoEngage.
Edit
After you publish, the Flow stats on users entering the flow and their performance at every stage are displayed.
You can only edit and modify the content of every action stage and the configured conditions. Adding or Removing any new stages is not a valid action.
At any stage is edited, and Flow is re-published with new changes, users that have crossed the edited states will be unaffected. Only the users arriving at the edited states afresh will be re-evaluated with new conditions or sent the latest messages.
If you wish to change the Flow such that new stages have to be added, stop the current flow and duplicate it to create a new Flow.
Duplicate
Marketers can duplicate an existing Flow by clicking on the duplicate icon in the top right bar or clicking the Actions option on the All Flows Page of an active flow.
This will open a duplicate instance of the already created Flow in a new tab which can then be changed, saved, and published.
Pause/Resume
An active Flow can be paused by clicking on the Pause option below the flow name.
After you pause, the active flow trip pauses at its current flow stage and won’t advance to the next stage. Due to pause, it might so happen that few users can get indefinitely stuck on any of the Flow stages even after resuming the Flow.
In paused state:
- New users will not enter the Flow
- No message will be sent
- No condition will be evaluated
- Users that are already in the Flow will not move to the next step of the flow.
Resume any paused flow. After you resume, MoEngage starts processing the active flow trip of users from the Flow stages at the time of pausing the flow.
Stop
Published flows are permanently stopped by clicking the Stop option available next to the pause icon.
When stopped, the users in the flow stop at their current stage, and no new users can enter the flow once stopped. Flow, once stopped, cannot be resumed.
Retiring a Flow
While stopping the flow, Marketers can choose to allow the users currently in the flow to move forward towards a flow exit while preventing any new entries into the flow. We term it as Retiring a flow.
This is especially useful while duplicating a flow to add or remove stages from the exiting flow. When the duplicated flow is published, ensure to retire the original flow to avoid users entering both flows.
When enabled for your account, the option to retire the flow will be available after choosing to stop a flow. You should select the second option from the popup(shown above) for retiring the flow.
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Takeaway In this scenario, if retired, the exiting 100 users currently in the flow will continue their trip. They would be eligible to receive further messages from the configured action campaigns and eventually exit the flow. |