Flow Designer - can we update in-flight flows?

[yvonnew]

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to edit in-flight flows that are running to edit a step that the flow has not reached?

I have some flows running with a scripted step missing the fd_data_trigger and want to try and inject this into running flows to avoid them erroring rather than have to cancel and rerun the flows (there could be several hundred).

example:

the first line I have as:
var desc = current.description

when it should be:
var desc = fd_data.trigger.current.description

Your help is appreciated, thanks.

[Mark Roethof · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

In theory you could edit the flow context. Though haven't tried this myself (only tried for workflow), and also would not suggest this to customers. This could be really tricky, you really to be careful and need to very knowledgeable.

If my answer helped you in any way, please then mark it as helpful.

Kind regards,
Mark
2020-2022 ServiceNow Community MVP
2020-2022 ServiceNow Developer MVP

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[yvonnew]

Thanks Mark, I appreciate that it might be a tricky solution, in which case I would rather bear the brunt of the extra work cancelling and restarting the flows. I am taking some pro-active action just now by updating the production flows in advance of the Rome upgrade to lessen the impact.

[yvonnew]

The result was that we could not edit the original source code, so my solution was to cancel and restart the flows which I knew would error. If the condition occurs that the remaining flows error then they will just be restarted.

[Mark Roethof]

Hi there,

Any follow-up needed? Or was my answer sufficient?
Let me know.

If your question is solved, please close the topic by marking my answer as correct. This will help others searching for a similar question and will remove the topic from the unsolved list.

Kind regards,
Mark
2020-2022 ServiceNow Community MVP
2020-2022 ServiceNow Developer MVP

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