Introduction to Visual Flow Creator¶
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Visual Flow Creator is an application used to create a visual representation of data processing workflows.
Nodes are predefined blocks of functionality in Visual Flow Creator. You can interlink and add nodes in the working area and combine them to produce a "flow". For more information, refer to Creating flows. You can use the copilot feature to create data processing workflows and JavaScript function nodes. For more information, refer to Visual Flow Creator Copilot.
Visual Flow Creator provides the following functionalities:
- Easily access data by using Industrial IoT nodes
- Data flow processing
- Creating own evaluations with Industrial IoT data
- Preparing collected data
- Calculating KPIs
- Creating REST APIs
- Establishing a link to multiple apps
- Creating custom rules
- Triggering notifications at certain events
- Creating simple dashboards
- Inserting own JavaScript code in "functions" nodes. For more information, refer to Function nodes.
Data processing in Visual Flow Creator
- Users of Visual Flow Creator are responsible for checking all external resources and sources.
- Visual Flow Creator is suitable only to a limited extent for processing of continuous information.
- Error-free execution of flows is dependent on the Industrial IoT services.
Process Industrial IoT data in Visual Flow Creator¶
You have the option of using and processing the following available data from Industrial IoT.
- Events
- Files
- Time series data
- Creating dashboards
- Integrated Data Lake
Specific Industrial IoT nodes are available for processing data. For additional information on Industrial IoT nodes, refer to Industrial IoT nodes.
Additional information¶
You can find additional information about VFC using the following links:
- Visual Flow Creator examples: vfc-examples.
- Visual Flow Creator tutorial: VFC Introduction.
You can find additional information about Node-RED using the following links: