When you create a new mobile flow in Business Central by copying an existing one, you need to do a few things before it shows up correctly in your role center. You certify the flow, check the mobile flow groups, and deactivate the flows you no longer want to use.
You activate a copied flow by certifying it in the mobile flow list. You cannot modify a flow while it is certified, so you make your changes in the setup first and certify afterwards.
You control where a flow appears by editing the mobile flow groups. A flow can show up in multiple areas, such as warehouse, shop floor production, and job time. You remove it from individual areas by deactivating it in the relevant group.
You can deactivate a flow for one area while keeping it active in others. For example, you can deactivate Find Item in the warehouse flow but keep it on the shop floor flow.
Activating a copied flow in the mobile flow list
Once you have created a new flow by copying an existing one, you want it to be part of your role center. Say you copied Find Item and changed it to Find SKU. You want to deactivate the old one and have the new one in place.
You do this from the mobile flow list where you created your Find SKU flow. First, check that the flow is certified. You modify the flow in the setup before certifying it, because you cannot modify a flow while it is certified. In the setup you decide what the flow should do, and you can run lists, perform executions, and handle all kinds of activities.
Checking the mobile flow groups after copying
After certifying the flow, check the mobile flow groups to confirm that it has been copied correctly from the flow you copied it from. The copied flow inherits the same group assignments as the original.
In this scenario, the new flow shows up in your warehouse menu under bins, where Find Item also appears. But it also shows up in other areas. If you use shop floor production, job time, and similar functions, the flow appears on all those flows too.
If you want to remove the flow from some of these areas, you take it out from the mobile flow area groups.
Deactivating a flow for specific areas
Once you certify Find SKU, you have both Find Item and Find SKU appearing next to each other when you run the mobile flow. To replace the old flow, you find Find Item, go into its groups, and deactivate it.
You can do this for one area only. If Find Item is only relevant to the warehouse, you deactivate the warehouse flow on Find Item. When you then run the warehouse mobile flow, Find SKU appears and Find Item is gone.
The change applies only to the area you deactivated. If you run the shop floor flow, it still shows both Find SKU and Find Item, because you only deactivated Find Item in the warehouse group. This is how you create your own SKU flow and tailor where it appears.
Q&A
How do I activate a new mobile flow I copied in Business Central?
You certify the flow in the mobile flow list. Make all your modifications in the setup first, because you cannot modify a flow while it is certified.
Why does my copied mobile flow appear in areas where I don’t want it?
A copied flow inherits the same group assignments as the original. If the original appeared in warehouse, shop floor production, and job time, the copy appears in all of them too. You control this in the mobile flow groups.
Can I deactivate a mobile flow in one area but keep it in another?
Yes. You deactivate the flow in the specific group for that area. For example, you can deactivate Find Item in the warehouse group while it stays active on the shop floor flow.
How do I replace an old mobile flow with a new one?
Certify the new flow so both appear, then go into the old flow’s groups and deactivate it for the areas where you want only the new flow.