Hi,
We’ve started to look at postman flows a while ago to migrate away from another integration platform.
We create flows that basic ETL so :
- Read from ERP API
- Transform/Modify/Validate json into other system format
- post to other system API
Thoses flows need to run on schedules , I’ve tested with Webhook on a collection run monitors but there’s no way to see flows logs that way
Actions seems to be the new way of scheduling flows as we seems to be able to drill-down into each flows blocks ran but I don’t think it’s using enviroment.
Should I switch all my configuration presently inside environmment into the action configuration ?
Cheers,
Hi @elliotlandry
Welcome to the forums!
Send Request blocks inside actions can still use environments, however Configurations are a better way to manage secrets and constants that will be used in your flow as they can be accessed from other blocks as well, the keys are brought over when a clone happens, configurations can be overwritten with each deployment, and can be passed into modules.
Actions analytics today will show you which blocks ran/failed and the error message if they failed. We’re working on adding input/output for each block in our analytics logs soon.
Let me know if there’s anything else I can help with 
Hey Daniel,
maybe there’s something that I don’t follow when you say: "conguration can be passed into modules
here’s my example right now :
I have this action that only calls my flow module
here’s the flow module in question :
let’s say I want the 2 variables store_name and access_token to be passed from the action configurations to the Http request inside the flow modules, how would you go about it ?
Is it that the inputs name inside the start block need to match the name of the configuration like this ?
Or should I completly rewrite my flow modules as an Action since all the block available from flow are in Actions like this :
Hi @elliotlandry
If you snapshot your module the inputs you defined in the start block will show up when you use the module in your action and you can pass the configurations in like so:
With your start block inputs being connected to your API like this:
What you name the start block inputs doesn’t matter it’s just a label for you.
Let me know if this makes sense.
