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Tabs and the bottom panel

6 steps± 4 minVideoVerified 22 Oct 2026
  1. Step 1 · Open your development environment
  2. Step 2 · Open two documents
  3. Step 3 · Switch and close
  4. Step 4 · Output: what a workflow does
  5. Step 5 · Inbox, Live traffic and Problems
  6. Step 6 · Hide the panel

Everything you open gets a tab, so you can quickly switch between, for example, a workflow and the table it writes to. At the bottom is a panel with four tabs: Output (what a workflow does), Inbox (what waits for your review), Live traffic (calls to your APIs) and Problems (what is wrong in the open document).

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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

Open two documents

In the explorer, click the workflow and then the table. Each gets a tab above the editor; the highlighted tab is the document you are looking at. Flow remembers your tabs, even when you reload the page.

  1. Click the workflow
Open two documents · Click the workflow
  1. Click the table
Open two documents · Click the table
Open two documents · Two tabs: the workflow and the table.
Step 3 / 6

Switch and close

Click a tab to go back. The cross closes a tab; if there is a dot instead, you have not saved yet and Flow asks first whether you really want to close. You can also drag tabs around.

  1. Click the workflow's tab
Switch and close · Click the workflow's tab
  1. Click Close tab
Switch and close · Click Close tab
Switch and close · Only the workflow is still open.
Step 4 / 6

Output: what a workflow does

Run the workflow. Under Output you see line by line what each step did, and the data at the end. Click a step on the canvas to see its own output in the properties panel.

  1. Click Run
Output: what a workflow does · Click Run
Output: what a workflow does · 3 of 3 rows from Bikes in repair.
Step 5 / 6

Inbox, Live traffic and Problems

Inbox shows workflows waiting for your approval (a Review step). Live traffic shows the latest calls to your APIs, with status and time. Problems shows what Flow finds in the open document, such as an unconnected step; click a problem to go there.

  1. Click INBOX
Inbox, Live traffic and Problems · Click INBOX
Inbox, Live traffic and Problems · Nothing to review.
  1. Click LIVE TRAFFIC
Inbox, Live traffic and Problems · Click LIVE TRAFFIC
  1. Click PROBLEMS
Inbox, Live traffic and Problems · Click PROBLEMS
Inbox, Live traffic and Problems · No problems in this workflow.
Step 6 / 6

Hide the panel

Need the space? Close the panel with the cross on the right, or with ⌘J (Ctrl+J). The same key brings it back. Drag the edge above it to make the panel taller or shorter.

  1. Click the cross
Hide the panel · Click the cross
Hide the panel · With ⌘J the panel is back.

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