Understand Flow Maintenance
This article provides information for Understand Flow Maintenance. Flow Maintenance lets you review all the properties for a particular procedure step at one time.
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Flow Maintenance Overview
You can also define external flows into a destination business system and external flows out of a source business system.
The following example shows the Flow Maintenance Diagram:
Flow Maintenance Diagram

Objectives
The objective of flow maintenance is to further refine the properties that are defined for a particular procedure step and its related dialog flows.
Flow Maintenance Main Actions
The actions in flow maintenance include the following:
Diagram
Prints the Flow Maintenance diagram and saves the entire model.
Edit
Adds external flows into and out of the business system, adds exit states to the business system, modifies exit states and autoflow commands, adds autoflow commands, and removes objects from the Flow Maintenance diagram.
View
Returns to the top of the Flow Maintenance diagram, searches for a string within the diagram, and deselects highlighted objects.
Detail
Specifies the dialog flow properties of the procedure step, and defines the data that is sent (passed) to a procedure and the data that is returned to the source procedure.
Window
Arranges the display of all open secondary windows, maximizes the width and height of the active window, staggers, and indents all open windows, divides the work area into halves or fourths, and then displays each open window in a portion of the screen.
Options
Customizes user interface for multiple or single object add.
Help
Describes general and specific help, explains contents and tasks that are performed in the application window for help, lists key assignments, and lists all help topics in alphabetical order.
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Use Dialog Flow Diagram.