The Boomerang Steptype allows you to launch another Flow, and when you’ve finished, it brings you right back to where you left off in your previous Flow.

Why would you want to do this? It’s a great way to keep your Flows sprawling out and instead use them as modules that you can connect together.

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Example

Let’s say you want to build a troubleshooting Flow for your connected device. The issue might be hardware-related or software-related. Rather than have each of those troubleshooting trees in the same huge parent Flow, you can use boomerangs to launch just your hardware or software troubleshooting child Flows. When you’re done, the Boomerang will bring you back to where you started to complete the rest of your parent Flow.

Boomerangs cannot be used in a chain. If you use just one boomerang, it’s fine. But if you use two or more, it won’t return you all the way back to the beginning of the chain.

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Flow Fields

All boomerangs have the same Title field and Automatically launch new Flow fields.

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Title

We recommend using this field to tell your team that you’re launching a new Flow. If you check the Automatically launch new Flow box, we recommend a title to explain what’s happening since your team will only be able to see this title for a few seconds before the next Flow starts.

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Automatically launch new Flow

To expedite the Flow and reduce the number of clicks your team needs to make, you can select this checkbox to automatically redirect your team to the new Flow when they reach this step, instead of requiring them to click a button in Sidekick to launch the new Flow.

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