# Creating a Flow

### About this export

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| **content_type** | lesson |
| **platform** | contentstack-academy |
| **source_url** | https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows/data-insights-course-5--creating-a-flow |
| **course_slug** | data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows |
| **lesson_slug** | data-insights-course-5--creating-a-flow |
| **markdown_file_url** | /academy/md/courses/data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows/data-insights-course-5--creating-a-flow.md |
| **generated_at** | 2026-06-08T14:32:02.452Z |

> Part of **[Automating Journeys with Flows](https://www.contentstack.com/academy/courses/data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows)** on Contentstack Academy. **Academy MD v3** — structured for retrieval; no quiz or assessment keys.

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#### Video details

#### At a glance

- **Title:** 35-data-insights-creating-a-flow
- **Duration:** 1m 25s
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- **Publish date (unix):** 1752897057

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#### Video transcript

Generally, when you start a flow, you'll hit the Create New button, and it's going to take you to this screen. We'll ultimately build out more and more pre-built templates. That's what you'll see at the bottom. So if a user wants to go and create a lost lead retargeting kind of cart abandonment use case, you would click this open. It gives you a walkthrough on what it's going to do. You would be able to name it, and then it's going to pre-populate your flow canvas with that template. In our demo, we'll walk through a welcome series, but it's the same thing. And then the additional feature here is for a customer that wants to create their own templates. Say you have a particular kind of flow that you want to repeat for every annual campaign or seasonal campaign or whatever it may be, you can actually go through and we'll double back and do this, but you can go through and create your own template, which is stored and then unique to that particular account. So a couple of different ways to promote what you can do with flows, along with the ability to just start with a blank canvas, build your own from scratch, which is what we'll actually double back to and walk through the different pieces.

#### Key takeaways

- Connect **Creating a Flow** back to your stack configuration before moving to the next module.
- Capture one concrete artifact (screenshot, Postman call, or code snippet) that proves the step works in your environment.
- Re-read the delivery versus management boundary for anything you changed in the entry model.

## Supplement for indexing

### Content summary

Creating a Flow. Creating a Flow in Automating Journeys with Flows (data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows).

### Retrieval tags

- Creating
- Flow
- data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows
- lesson 04
- Creating a Flow
- data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows lesson

### Indexing notes

Index this lesson as a primary chunk tagged with lesson_id "04" and topics: [Creating, Flow].
Parent course slug: data-insights-automating-journeys-with-flows. Use asset_references URLs as thumbnail hints in search results when present.
Never surface LMS quiz content or assessment answers from this file.

### Asset references

| Label | URL |
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| Video thumbnail: Creating a Flow | `https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/JrnTw0lK/poster.jpg?width=720` |

### External links

| Label | URL |
| --- | --- |
| Contentstack Academy home | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/` |
| Training instance setup | `https://www.contentstack.com/academy/training-instance` |
| Academy playground (GitHub) | `https://github.com/contentstack/contentstack-academy-playground` |
| Contentstack documentation | `https://www.contentstack.com/docs/` |