Hi everyone. In this video we are going  to look at flows in a little bit more depth. We covered them in the essentials course a little bit  already in this course, but there's lots more we can do. Let's jump in and get to know flows a little better. Alright, first up, uh, let's switch  to prototype mode shifty. Okay?

And if you haven't,  you can see I've got loads of flows already. If you haven't, okay, you probably got loads  by the time in this course,  but if you don't, you click on a frame  and you say, I'd like to start a flow from here. And it just means we can link to  and link a prototype  to start from here rather than page  one, which is the default. And while we're developing this, this might be enough. We can just hit play and start viewing from there. Where we can go in a little bit more depth with flows is  that when we are sharing with clients.

So I'm going to have nothing selected. Okay? And you can start to see over here, look,  there's all my flows that I've got. I happen to know Flow eight I think  is the one that I'm working on. And watch this. I can click on this  and it will jump me to it, which is handy.

I'm gonna rename this. You can either rename it on here  by double clicking it or rename it over here. Mine's going to be my mobile checkout. And why you would name it is that in prototype mode,  when you send a link out to someone,  can you see all the flows are over here on the side, okay? And obviously flow 1, 2, 3. Isn't that useful?

This one more useful. You can add more useful information, okay,  by going back into here,  I'm gonna click on my mobile checkout flow. And there is this option in here to add more details. So you can put in a lot of documentation here. Look, bullet points bold. If you hold command I, you can do italics,  it's Ctrl I on a pc.

There's all sorts of other stuff. If you  know the shortcut, come on. Shift X for strike through. I'm not sure why I know that one. It's control shift X on a pc. So if you know the kind of basic shortcuts for text,  you can put a lot of information in here.

What I'd probably only use it for though is pasting a bit  of a description and you can add a link. Where am I gonna get that link from? Okay, what I'm gonna do is get people to be able to click on  that link and jump to this page here. So I'm gonna select on my section. It could be a frame, it could be anything. Remember in the last video if we go share,  and this is turned on, it'll link to the current selection.

So if I copy that, let's see in action, let's click on this. Let's go to this and I'm going to highlight that. Add a hyperlink, paste it in, save it. Okay, why that's useful is when people are working on my  prototype, okay, they can click on mobile checkout,  they can see there's a description  and they can click on this  and it will jump to the right page. Just good documentation. The other thing you can do  with flows is you can actually link directly  to them rather than getting this big stack  of stuff than having to kind of work which one they want.

Okay? You can have nothing selected. Be in prototype mode. And over here you can say, actually I wanna link just  to this particular page, copy  and paste it to a cover page where maybe like this one here,  I just hit paste. I don't even have to hit the  special shortcuts for hyperlink. It just assumes you want to paste it over.

The text  Puts a little underline, you're in charge  of making it the nasty HTML from  the eighties and nineties blue. But now this link will jump straight to  that prototype to the right flow. One last thing is you can delete flows. So I'm gonna go back to my page one,  shift one to see everything. Switch to prototype mode, shift E. Okay?

You can select them and delete them. If you don't need them anymore, you can select them  and go to minus over here to delete them. And lastly, you can move them around, select on them  and go, now it's over here. Make a new file, move it. One along that is flows in Figma.