Where did these Visualize steps come from in my Flow?

Hey there :wave: Adam from Parabola here answering a common question as we introduce three major updates (visualizations on the canvas, dynamic dashboarding, and live Flow editing with more powerful drafts).

This update breaks apart the functionality of the previous “Send to Table” step into two distinct steps:

  1. Send to Table: Used ONLY for data storage/sharing data across Flows
  2. Visualize: Used ONLY to create visualizations on the canvas/in your Dashboard

If you open a Flow that previously used a “Send to Table” step to populate a dashboard, the Flow will now have a “Visualize” step after the Table step to maintain dashboard parity:

If your Flow looked like this:

Screenshot 2024-10-02 at 2.59.49 PM

It now automatically looks like this:

To take this a step further — if you want to create a NEW Flow that just visualizes data (but doesn’t store that data in a Parabola Table), your Flow only needs a “Visualize” step:

Screenshot 2024-10-02 at 3.02.33 PM

Drop us a note below with any questions, or feel free to reach out to help@parabola.io.

There used to be a page where I could see all my tables. Has that been removed?

Where can I see all the tables I’ve created.

It seems that with the Visualize step you can add it to a Dashboard, but it also seems like each flow has its own dashboard? What If I want to look at several tables from different flows?

Thanks.

Hi @Joel_Van_Patten :wave: Welcome to the community!

Visualizations should appear within each Flow’s Dashboard. Can you confirm that “Show on dashboard” is toggled in the step’s settings?

Historically, visualizations have been isolated to the Flow where its related “Send to Parabola Table” step lived. This shouldn’t be different from before.

If you’d like to create a centralized Flow containing all of your table visualizations, I recommend the following steps:

  1. Create a new Flow
  2. Import all of your tables using multiple “Pull from Parabola Table” steps
  3. Connect your tables to a “Send to Parabola Table” step
  4. Connect your “Send to Parabola Table” steps to “Visualize” steps
  5. Toggle “Show on dashboard” for each “Visualize” step

Let me know if that helps!

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