Simple view or Map view
Two views of one workflow — a form and a canvas. Both build, both run, both edit items and show every result, so it is pure preference.
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The Builder has one switch: Simple | Map. It is the same workflow either way — same steps, same items, same results, same run. Switch mid-build and nothing is lost.
Simple — a form
Top to bottom: a table of items, your steps in order (each with its pool, model and instruction), and a Run button. No canvas to arrange, nothing to connect. Multi-step chains show as a numbered list, and you can add, remove and reorder steps.
Best for the common shape: a list of things, one or two steps, results in a grid.
Map — a canvas
Cards you drag from the palette and connect with edges. Everything Simple can do plus the shapes it cannot draw: branches, loops, several inputs feeding one step, output cards, tool calls.
Map earns its keep for another reason: it shows your data in place. Once items exist, cards preview what they will receive, and each card has a Data tab where you can flip through items and see the resolved input for every one — a free dry run — and, after a run, the real output. Model, image, video and tool cards also show their own result on the card, so a finished map reads like a contact sheet.
Neither view is the lesser one
- Items are editable in both: Simple shows the grid inline, Map opens it with Edit items on the batch card.
- Full results are reviewable in both: Simple shows the grid, Map opens View all results from the gallery card or the Data tab.
- Runs submitted from either view are identical.
When you will want Map anyway
- Branching per item, or bounded retry loops — the Decide and Repeat cards.
- Calling a saved workflow as one step — Run workflow.
- Sending results onward — the Send to a URL card.
- Any flow with more than one input feeding a step.
Opening a past run with Runs → Open in Builder rehydrates the whole canvas — cards, Data tabs and all — with that run's real data. Useful for working out what a flow actually did.