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The explorer and modules

6 steps± 4 minVideoVerified 22 Oct 2026
  1. Step 1 · Open your development environment
  2. Step 2 · Create a module
  3. Step 3 · Give it a name, owner and colour
  4. Step 4 · Move a table into the module
  5. Step 5 · Merge two modules
  6. Step 6 · Search the explorer

On the left of Flow is the explorer: everything you build, grouped in modules. A module is a folder for one subject or team, such as Workshop or Sales, with its own colour and owner. What is in a module is internal unless you share it. You create a module for the workshop, move a table into it and merge two modules.

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Step 1 / 6

Open your development environment

In the portal, under Environments, click Development, and there Open. Flow opens in a new tab and you are signed in straight away.

  1. Click Development
Open your development environment · Click Development
  1. Click Open ↗
Open your development environment · Click Open ↗
Step 2 / 6

Create a module

Click ＋ next to Modules. Flow creates a new module and opens it straight away, so you can give it a name.

  1. Click New module
Create a module · Click New module
Create a module · The module New module, open in the editor.
Step 3 / 6

Give it a name, owner and colour

Type the name and who owns it: the team or person in charge. Pick a colour: you see it again as a dot in the explorer, so you can tell modules apart at a glance. Save the module.

  1. In Name, type Workshop
  2. In Owner (team or person), type Workshop team
Give it a name, owner and colour · In Name, type Workshop; In Owner (team or person), type Workshop team
  1. Click a colour
Give it a name, owner and colour · Click a colour
  1. Click Save module
Give it a name, owner and colour · Click Save module
Give it a name, owner and colour · The notice Module saved.
Give it a name, owner and colour · Workshop is in the explorer, with its colour.
Step 4 / 6

Move a table into the module

In the explorer, point at the table that belongs to the workshop and click the arrows: Move to module…. Choose the new module. Flow first checks what would break: an internal item may only be used by what is in the same module. If something would break you see what, and you switch on Shared or move them together. This works for everything in the explorer: workflows, tables, agents, chat widgets, dashboards, building blocks and APIs.

  1. Click Move to module…
Move a table into the module · Click Move to module…
  1. Click the module Workshop
Move a table into the module · Click the module Workshop
Move a table into the module · Flow says nothing breaks.
  1. Click Move
Move a table into the module · Click Move
Move a table into the module · The table is now under Workshop.
Step 5 / 6

Merge two modules

Is one subject spread over two modules, for instance because they were started separately? Click ＋ next to the module that should go and choose Merge into…. Everything moves together to the module you choose, so what uses each other keeps working; then the empty module is gone.

  1. Click ＋ next to Modules
Merge two modules · Click ＋ next to Modules
  1. Click ＋ next to New module
Merge two modules · Click ＋ next to New module
  1. Click Merge into…
Merge two modules · Click Merge into…
  1. Click the module Workshop
Merge two modules · Click the module Workshop
  1. Click Merge
Merge two modules · Click Merge
Merge two modules · New module has merged into Workshop.
Step 6 / 6

Search the explorer

With many items, type part of a name at the top of the explorer under Filter…: only what matches stays, in every module. The buttons next to Explorer collapse or expand all modules.

  1. In Filter…, type plan
Search the explorer · In Filter…, type plan
Search the explorer · Only Workshop planning remains.

This guide was carried out step by step on 22 Oct 2026 by an automated test on Flow (version 3e563176).