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Introduction to Integrations

Important:

Goal of this article: Introduce a creative team to use Flow Production Tracking integration with their desktop applications.

During this "Getting Started" series you have seen how Flow Production Tracking can manage all parts of your project. Next lets talk about how Flow Production Tracking integrates with your design & creation software.

What are Flow Production Tracking Integrations

Flow Production Tracking integrations bring Flow Production Tracking data right to your creative teams favorite and most used Design, Modelling and Visualization Tools.

See our community shared integrations here.

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It also provides creative users out of the box tools to view information about their tasks, read and add notes, and share files with teammates.

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Integrations are built on the Flow Production Tracking Toolkit platform, and developers can use the API to extend functionality or create custom Toolkit apps to serve all of your workflow needs.

How To Access Flow Production Tracking Integrations

Integrations for Flow Production Tracking can be launched from 2 places. One of these desktop applications must be installed on your computer before the integrations can be launched.

Note:

You will only be able to launch Creative Applications that are already installed.

  1. Flow Production Tracking Desktop - The original launcher for Integrations

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  1. Flow Production Tracking Create - Artist focused tool also allowing for Integration launching.

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What To Do with Flow Production Tracking Integrations

View Information

With a Flow Production Tracking integration, a creative user can see all the information about what they need to work on, their latest works, and the latest notes made on their work, all in one place from inside their everyday Desktop tool. When you first launch an application via Flow Production Tracking, you will see the Flow Production Tracking Panel appear. (Some apps may not always open the Flow Production Tracking Panel automatically. If not you can select it.)

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Manage Working Files

Flow Production Tracking Integrations enable teams to help manage their daily working files. Depending on if you're using the Basic Integrations vs the Advanced Integrations (more to come in the next article) you will have more or less functionality. Out of the box, Flow Production Tracking will let you continue to save working files to where you normally would, with the addition of "File Versioning".

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Publish & Share Work

Share work with your team by Publishing it in Flow Production Tracking. Publishing enables different departments to hand off work to each other.

Once someone publishes this, members on the team can now load into into their respective session to start working quickly.

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Capture and Track Review Notes

Working with Flow Production Tracking Integrations allows you to directly make notes from your application and have them saved directly into Flow Production Tracking. Use the Flow Production Tracking Panel to keep track of everyday review cycles and all your to do items!

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