Flow Engineering changelog
Document View
The new document view streamlines the process of managing large volumes of requirements by providing a clear and structured format for review. It also supports enhanced review and approval workflows, enabling stakeholders to efficiently collaborate, leave feedback, and approve specific sections. This feature improves traceability and communication across teams, ensuring a more cohesive approach to requirements management.
Other updates
You can now edit text fields directly from the table view.
Search is now faster and more focused.
You can now create design values from within the requirement panel.
All viewers can now leave comments.
Minor fixes
The Dependency view now loads faster.
A warning message is now shown when units don't match.
Change requests are now triggered for documents when a value changes.
A configuration selector is now available in the slide-over panel.
A new requirement is now created in the System when a new interface is set.
You can now view and filter by "Current Configuration."
You can now view and filter by "User" custom fields.
The requirement type is now displayed on every tree node.
Five levels of dependencies are now shown for design values.
You can now create and remove Requirement-Requirement links via API.
Improvements to workflows and dependency and architecture views
Items grouped in dependency view by system
Items belonging to same systems are now highligted in the dependencies view for added clarity.
Ability to save and share system architecture view across a project.
We've made it easier to set and share architecture views that are persistent and look the same across all project users.
Automatically set a stage when a requirement moves into review
We've improves workflows where you can now use 'In Review' stage as a trigger and auto-set different stages for requirements.
Minor changes
System Architecture View feature-flag applies project-wide
Option to focus from table view context menu
Offer division in Design Values
Improved new user sign up flow
Remove beta from analysis page
Only Admins can define Custom Fields
Organization Admins can remove projects
Create personal Organization for user upon sign-up
Expand-all and collapse-all on System table view
More detail when deleting Requirements/Systems
Ability to link Requirements to Systems via API
Ability to indent bullet points by more than one off the parent bullet
Bug fixes
Fix selecting columns/rows in importer
Fix off by 1 search count
Display System counts in System page navigation panel
Fix description overflow on System page
Fix tab name color in Dark mode
Tidy toolbar overflow in text-box menus
Sort by Any Column, and API Improvements
Sort by any column
A quality of life improvement that allows you to quickly sort directly from any column header.
Customise verification methods
You can now customise the available verification method options for requirements. To to Settings → Requirements → Verification Method to add or remove options.
Minor changes
Raw requirement statements now exposed via API
Systems view now displays a table view by default
Added a new toolbar button for quickly referencing data in the description field of a requirement
Project admins can now rename or delete baselines
A new context menu added to systems navigation panel
You can now edit or delete comments
Project Feed, Admin Permissions, and Systems View Improvements
Project Feed
We've added a new section on the home screen which gives an overview of the latest changes that have happened in your project.
System Architecture view
System position now persists across projects
Ability to add multiple interfaces between two systems
Replaced design values with requirements on interfaces
Ability to connect systems together
Data now shown on tiles
Admin permissions
You can now allow only admins to edit project settings
Only project and organisation admins are able to edit project or organisation level data
Google Sheets integration released from Beta
To get started, connect your Google acccount with Flow (Settings > Integrations > Google). Once done, you can now bring any spreadsheet into Flow.
Minor Features
Rename and set ranges on Model Outputs
Support email changed to [email protected]
Fixed an issue some users had on dismissing the changelog modal
Added custom fields for Design Values importer
Fix Organisation members not being displayed in mention popover
Fix project requirement change history copy
Fix previewing google sheets files with long sheet name (31+ characters)
Fix Design Value pill truncated in Model inputs table
Fix duplication for interfaces
Fix Organisation Requirement message in change history
Fix selecting Stage
Fixed system/design unit references
Hierarchy Depth
Display and Filter by Hierarchy Depth
We've made it much faster to see the depth of each requirement at a glance inside a table view. Previously this only possible to do in a tree view. We now also allow you to filter by depth, which makes it easier to understand higher-order effects a given system has.
You can add hierarchy depth as a column (+) to any table view or use it as a filter by selecting ↳ Hierarchy Depth under filters.
View fields across all configurations
If you're using configurations, we've made it very simple to understand how fields differ between configurations.
Minor features
Performance improvements for large projects
We now prevent adding global and organisation data to a system
"Duplicate Project" button is now disabled while duplication in progress
Showing now all field values across all configs
"Current Value" has been renamed to "Actual Value"
Demo data should now be correctly created for every new user
Display recent features shipped in app
Dark Mode and Current View Data Exports
Dark mode
You can now use Flow in dark mode. You can find the toggle under Settings > Account > General > Enable Dark Mode.
Data Export from Current View
You can now run a data export (.csv) from the current view you're in. You can initiate the export under the 'Display' navigation item.
Table for Organization Requirements in System View
We've made it easier to view organisation requirements. Previously you could view these from the details panel, but now we have a dedicated table view that gives you better access to the properties of organisation-level requirements.
Minor updates
Flow now remembers the last visited project
We now allow unvarying from base configuration
Fix: epsilon3 link on integration page
Improved error messages when changing to Stage
Added count of the number of items in each table in System View
Ability to open requirements in a different tab on Ctrl+Click
We're now show a tooltip with a reason when drag and drop is not allowed
A link to a 'give feedback' page added. You can access this through the compass icon.
We've introduced a new support chat tool (Pylon), which helps make our support response times even better
We now show organization/project requirement tag on Requirement Details
Native Google Sheets Integration
Engineering runs on spreadsheets and Google Sheets has been by far and away the most requested Flow integration. You can now use Flow's Google Sheets integration to extract data from specific cells and check those values against your requirements.
To get started, connect your Google acccount with Flow (Settings > Integrations > Google). Once done, you can now bring any spreadsheet into Flow.
Flow's built-in data importer also now supports Google Sheets, allowing you to bring all your requirements into Flow within minutes.
Currently in closed beta. Reach out if you'd like to start using this.
Minor updates
Allow unsetting requirement type
Add border top to the first selected row in table view
Fix: Creating an aggregate doesnt calculate its value correctly
Add unit field to value creation form
Close slide over panel when archive change request approved
Fix: baseline items leaking into org level requirements
Reset search when clicking into a system
Persist system page after refresh
Allow setting tags via API
Fix: not able to update filter aggregates
Change wording on auto set to "completion"
Use change icon for change request notifications
Fix: System UUID displayed instead of name in RE view
Systems Architecture View (MBSE) V1
We're very excited to start bringing in modern Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach into Flow.
The new architecture view allows any engineer to quickly create and confirm requirements using system and behavioral diagrams, enabling faster breakdown and real-time tracking. Include more team members and make it easier for everyone to communicate by organizing information and tasks efficiently.
Currently in beta. To enable this new view, go over to Settings > Project > General, and enable the Systems Architecture View toggle.
Other updates
New way to display systems in the table view. It should be much clearer now to see what's in a system, and where they start and stop
Improvements to system search
A change request is now opened when a user tries to delete a requirement or value