Skip to main content

Real-Time Collaboration

Flow Studio lets your whole team edit the same workflow at once. Changes sync live — you see who's connected, what they're touching, and where their cursor is, with no manual save and no overwrite conflicts.

Presence​

Presence shows who is currently looking at the workflow.

  • Avatars stack in the top-right of the canvas. Hover any avatar to see the full name.
  • If more than four people are connected, the stack collapses to "+N".
  • Each collaborator gets a stable color used everywhere their activity appears (cursor, lock border, drag preview).

Live Cursors​

You see every other collaborator's cursor moving across the canvas in real time, labeled with their name and color. The agent's cursor is rendered with a distinct icon when the Flow Assistant is acting on the canvas on someone's behalf.

Node Locks​

When a teammate selects or edits a node, a colored border appears around it with their initials.

  • The lock is soft — others can still edit unrelated nodes in parallel.
  • Locks zoom-adapt: at low zoom, they shrink to a thin border so they don't clutter the canvas; at high zoom, they show the collaborator's initials and avatar inline.
  • Locks clear automatically when the collaborator moves on or disconnects.

Live Drag Preview​

When someone else drags a node, you see it move smoothly while they're dragging — not a sudden jump on release. The preview persists for about 1.5 seconds after they let go, then snaps to the persisted position.

Autosave​

Flow Studio writes changes back as you make them.

Change typeSave cadence
Structural (add, delete, connect, duplicate, group/ungroup, auto-layout, import)~100 ms
Node drag endImmediate
Viewport (pan / zoom)Throttled to ~3 s

There is no manual Save button. If your connection drops mid-edit, Flow Studio reconciles your local state against the server on reconnect.

Conflict Avoidance​

Two people can edit the same workflow at the same time without overwriting each other:

  • The server merges structural changes against the latest known state instead of replacing the whole workflow.
  • Node executions sync separately, so a teammate's run results appear inline as they arrive — you don't have to refresh.

Undo / Redo with Collaborators​

When other people are connected, undoing a large change asks you to confirm first. The reason: an undo could roll back work that someone else is depending on. The confirmation lists the connected collaborators so you know who'll be affected.

Tips​

tip

Combine collaboration with workflow visibility levels to keep work-in-progress private while sharing finished workflows with the whole workspace.

info

Collaboration is on by default for every workflow you can open. There's no setup step — anyone with edit access (Owner, Admin, Creator with project access, or anyone explicitly granted access via Sharing & Access) joins automatically when they open the workflow.