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Flows

Listing flows

The wmill flow list command is used to list all flows in the remote workspace.

wmill flow

Pushing a flow

Pushing a flow to a Windmill instance is done using the wmill flow push command.

wmill flow push <file_path> <remote_path>

Arguments

ArgumentDescription
file_pathThe path to the flow file to push.
remote_pathThe remote path where the flow specification should be pushed.

Examples

  1. Push the flow located at path/to/local/flow.yaml to the remote path f/flows/test.
wmill flow push path/to/local/flow.yaml f/flows/test

Creating a new flow

The wmill flow bootstrap command is used to create a new flow locally.

wmill flow bootstrap [--summary <summary>] [--description <description>] <path>

Arguments

ArgumentDescription
pathThe path of the flow to be created.

Examples

  1. Create a new flow f/flows/flashy_flow
wmill flow bootstrap f/flows/flashy_flow

Running a flow

Running a flow by its path s done using the wmill flow run command.

wmill flow run <remote_path> [options]

Arguments

ArgumentDescription
remote_pathThe path of the flow to be run.

Options

OptionParametersDescription
-d, --datadataInputs specified as a JSON string or a file using @filename or stdin using @- . Resources and variables must be passed using "$res:..." or "$var:..." For example wmill flow run u/henri/message_to_slack -d '{"slack":"$res:u/henri/henri_slack_perso","channel":"general","text":"hello dear team"}'
-s, --silentDo not ouput anything other then the final output. Useful for scripting.

CLI arguments

Flow specification

You can find the definition of the flow file structure here.

Remote path format

<u|g|f>/<username|group|folder>/...