Considerations for Submitting a Flow

Use the Submit a Flow task to submit a flow, process, data load, or report from this single page. You can search for a flow pattern, enter flow parameters, and schedule the flow to run at your defined time and frequency.

Navigate to My Client Groups > Payroll from your Home page and click Submit a Flow under the Flow Submission and Results section. The Submit a Flow page opens.

Consider the following when you use the flow submission page and submit a flow.

• Use the context switcher on the top of the page and select a Legislative Data Group (LDG) to view and submit flows for a specific LDG. If you leave this field blank the flow doesn't belong to any specific LDG.
• Use the Recently Submitted option to view the flows recently submitted by you. If multiple flow patterns have the same number of submissions, they are sorted alphabetically.

• Use the Search option to search for a specific flow that you want to submit. View the list of flows by flow pattern and flow type. The flow pattern includes a process, report, data load, and task flow.
• Select a flow to open the flow submission page and view or enter flow parameters.
  • You can view all parameters, and enter values as required before the final submission of the flow.
  • View default parameters for a flow. For example, when you submit the calculate payroll process the process date and date earned parameters are defaulted based on the payroll period.
  • The parameters are grouped as Required Parameters and Optional Parameters for quicker and easy submissions.

• Use the Upload Parameter Files option to drag and drop files that include flow parameter details. This option displays on the flow submission page only if you have defined the flow to allow upload of a file. Use this option for select flows that require files to be uploaded. You can upload multiple files using this UCM upload option.

• Select the Process After Error check box to allow the flows to continue irrespective of the status of a prior task, in the same flow or a linked flow.
• Use the Schedule option to schedule the flow. You can use a predefined schedule if available or select 'As soon as possible' to run the flow as soon as you submit the flow. The default schedule is to submit a flow as soon as possible.
• If you have enabled logging, a message appears on the page to indicate that logging is enabled. The name of the process configuration group is displayed on the UI. Click on the process configuration group name to access the Process Configuration Group UI and view the details of the parameter and make changes if required. Before submission of the flow, either disable logging of the default group or select another process configuration group that doesn't have logging enabled.
• Use the Linked Flows section to link another flow to your current flow, or link your current flow to another flow. Your data security access controls which flows you can view and submit, and therefore, which flows you can connect.

Enter a name for the instance of the flow that you're about to submit. For example, if you're submitting the Calculate Payroll flow pattern for a weekly payroll run, enter a flow name that uniquely identifies the payroll run, such as 'Weekly Payroll 10/10/19'.

Note: It's best practice to enter a name that includes the payroll period, so that it's easier to identify later.

When you submit the flow, you're taken to the Checklist page. Monitor and manage the tasks within the flow from the Checklist page.