OT Link Platform Flows

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Flows Overview

OT Link Platform Flows offer the following capabilities:

• Flexible Data Ingestion: Flows can collect data from OT Link Platform’s DeviceHub, 3rd-party databases, enterprises systems, and various file types.
• Complex Event Processing: Process, filter, and analyze data with the ability to write application logic using Javascript and Python, including functions, as well as rules and alerts for event processing.  Flows is a visual language with a drag and drop interface that requires no coding knowledge to use.
• Synchronization & Flexibility: Sync Flows to the cloud and quickly create new versions of Flow programs to push to devices.

Explore Flows

To become familiar with how to create basic Flows, review these pages:

• Use OT Link Platform Flows to Visualize Data Flows
• Create a Flow for a OT Link Platform Device

The following pages are intended for users who have already mastered OT Link Platform Flow basics:

• Flow Node Types
  • Advanced Nodes
  • Dashboard Nodes
  • DataHub Nodes
  • Function Nodes
  • Input Nodes
  • Output Nodes
  • Social Nodes
  • Storage Nodes
• Flow Options
  • Customize the Flows View
  • Export and Import Flows
  • Search for Flows
  • Manage Configuration Nodes
  • Add, Rename, Delete Flows
  • Create Subflows
  • Manage the Nodes Palette
  • Select Flow Nodes
  • Save Flow Options
• Flows Dashboard Basics
• Flow Functions
  • Contexts and Globals
  • Reading JSON Objects
  • Combining Inputs
  • Binary Data
  • Hex Values
• Flow Use Cases
  • Topics and Tags
  • Requesting and Sending Device Data
  • Reading, Writing, and Sending Files
  • Databases
  • Dashboards, Alerts, and Notifications
  • Send Email Notifications