Archy Flow Authoring with YAML
Before you start: If you are familiar with YAML, skip ahead to the tutorial below. If not, YAML stands for "YAML Ain't Markup Language" and is the formatting used for objects like flows in Archy. There are lots of pages that discuss YAML on the web. For a quick introduction, click here to see a Wikipedia article on YAML.
Tutorial
To learn about authoring flows with YAML, we've created a sequence of lessons to walk you through various capabilities of Archy. While we recommend that you follow them in order, they're also meant to be used as a "how to" reference for Archy as well.
Lessons
- 1 - My First Flow
- 2 - Adding a task with a decision action
- 3 - Using the Archy preprocessor
- 4 - Reference Basics
- 4A - Absolute References
- 4B - Relative References
- 4C - External References - lets you include shared logic in your flow!
- 5 - Using a 'ref' object to embed an external object
- 6 - Using a 'refArray' object to embed an array of external objects
- 7 - Substitutions
- 8 - YAML escaping
Quiz
Want to take a quick quiz based on the Archy lessons above? If so, click here!
Archy - Ver. 2.33.1, generated on January 3, 2025
