Workflows Tips #33: Helper Flow Tips, Helper Flow Multiple Inputs and Build Your First Flow Replay

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Okta Workflows Staff for Okta Workflows ・ Aug 23 ・ 3 min read

In this post:

• Working with helper flow tips
• Helper flow with multiple inputs
• Webinar recording: Build Your First Flow with Okta Workflows

Working with helper flow tips

Last week I published How to Setup a Workflows Helper Flow (With For-Each and Streaming Cards). This guide shows how to setup a helper flow with For-Each card and the streaming option.

Jacob Walters from MacAdmins Slack channel shared more tips for working with helper flows:

• Use a consistent and easily understood naming convention
• If your workflows use multiple helper flows, be consistent with naming your variables across them
• Helper flows can call themselves (loops and recursion)!
• Cards like Reduce, Filter are effectively helper flows with loops and a defined output- great for iterating through lists

Helper flow with multiple inputs

This tip is ahaupt. ahaupt hangs out in the MacAdmins #okta-workflows Slack community.

As long as we are on the helper flow topic, here is a 15-second video on how to create a helper flow with multiple inputs and set inputs type:

Webinar recording: Build Your First Flow with Okta Workflows

In this monthly webinar for beginners you will learn how to:

• Authorize your Okta connector
• Build a flow from scratch
• Add a template to your Workflows environment
• Import and export a flow or a folder

Watch the recording and register for the next session.

Two resources to help you learn more:

🎥 vShort how-to Workflows videos to help you become a better automation builder.

📘 Read our Workflows How-To Guides based on community member questions.