Creating an Empty Flow Service

When you create an empty flow service, you must insert the flow steps manually.

To create an empty flow service

1. In Designer: File > New > Flow Service

2. In the New Flow Service dialog box, select the folder in which you want to save the flow service.

3. In the Element name field, type a name for the flow service using any combination of letters, numbers, and/or the underscore character. For information about restricted characters, see About Element Names.

4. If you have a template you want to use to initialize a default set of properties for the service, select if from the Choose template list.

5. Click Next.

6. On the Select the Source Type panel, select Empty Flow.

7. Click Finish to create the empty flow service.

8. To insert flow steps, see Inserting Flow Steps.