ServiceNow flow designer tutorial to revert the version | ServiceNow flow designer version history

[Amit Gujarathi]

ServiceNow flow designer version history | ServiceNow flow designer tutorial to revert the version

Hi All,

I hope you're doing great.

One of the favorite questions I asked all the ServiceNow developers is whether you will choose a Flow designer or Workflow. Once I get the answer for the same the next follow-up question is why you don't like the other one.
To my surprise, there were a set of people who raised this point that Flow designer doesn't have traceability.
Now what they mean by traceability is whenever we are using workflow if we want to revert it to the previous version we have a separate module for the same called workflow version but we don't have anything like this for the flow.
In this tutorial, we will be exploring the option of how we can revert the flow to the previous version.

Agenda

• What is a flow designer
• What is a version in flow designer
• What is the problem statement wrt to the version in flow designer
• what is the advantage of workflow for flow designer
• where the flow designer workflows are stored
• How we can compare and revert flow to the previous version

I have created this video with the hope that the myth that flow designers don't have version control will vanish and people start using the flow designer.

 

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[abhishek_s]

4 YouTube ad-breaks with 8 ads in a 13 mins video is excruciating.

For those of you looking for a quick text explanation or YouTube being blocked, the video suggests going to the sys_update_version table and looking up the concerned flow by doing name=sys_hub_flow_<your_flow_sys_id>.

You will see the version history. You can do a compare too but it is almost useless since the entire code comparison is shown in a single line stretching from left to infinity. It is not even remotely the same as comparing Business Rule or Script Include version histories. You would be better off copying the payloads into Notepad++ and using the Compare plugin instead. You can do a revert too between the various versions.

SN would do well to add a visual compare feature for Flow Designer. It would make reviewing Flow changes much easier.

[Daniel Oderbolz]

If you are looking for a free option to do the comparison, I can recommend good old WinMerge