Workflows

A workflow is your automated content pipeline: a chain of steps (called nodes) that create, transform, and combine content for you. This page shows you how to build, organize, run, and publish workflows in 60 Minute Creator.

What Is a Workflow

A workflow lives on a canvas, a visual board where you place nodes and connect them together. Each node does one job (for example, generating an image or writing a script), and connecting nodes tells 60 Minute Creator what to pass from one step to the next.

The Workflow Studio

All your workflows live in Workflow Studio. From here you can:

See every workflow you have, in Grid or List view
Search workflows by name or description
Filter by "All", "Published", or "Draft"
Sort by "Newest" or "Oldest"
Create a new workflow with the "New Workflow" button

Click "New Workflow".
60 Minute Creator creates a blank draft workflow named "Untitled Workflow" and takes you straight into its canvas editor.

Organizing With Folders

You can group your workflows into folders, one level at a time, and folders can contain their own subfolders.

Click "New Folder" to create a folder inside the folder you're currently viewing.
Use the breadcrumbs at the top ("All" plus any folder names) to move up and down your folder tree.

If you delete a folder, any subfolders inside it are deleted too, but the workflows themselves are safe: they simply move back to "All".

Managing a Workflow Card

Each workflow card shows its name, a description (or the number of nodes if there's no description), its status, whether it runs manually or on a schedule, a "Running" tag while it's active, its total cost, and its success rate.

From a card you can:

Rename: click the name directly on the card, type the new name, then press Enter or click away to save.
Favorite: click the star icon to pin a workflow to the top.
Customize: pick a colour and icon for the card from the customize popover.
Open the card menu (⋯) for: Run, Duplicate, Move to folder, Customize, Delete.

Run starts the workflow right from the card, no need to open it first. The card shows its "Running" state as soon as the run starts. Run is unavailable while the workflow is already running or when it has no nodes yet.

Duplicating a workflow copies its name as "{original name} (Copy)", its description, and its full canvas layout. The copy always starts fresh: as a draft, not favorited, and not published.

Deleting a workflow is permanent. You'll see a confirmation: "Are you sure you want to delete this workflow? This action cannot be undone."

Building on the Canvas

Opening a workflow takes you to its canvas, where you design what it does.

Naming your workflow

At the top of the canvas is your workflow's name, shown as an editable text field (placeholder: "Untitled Workflow"). Click "+ Add description" to add an optional description underneath. Both your name and description save automatically a second after you stop typing.

Adding nodes

Drag a node from the node palette onto the canvas, or click it to add it.
The palette can be sorted by Category, A-Z, or Most Used, and can be collapsed to save space.
You can also drag a connection line from a node's handle and drop it on empty canvas: a small menu pops up so you can pick a node type, which is then created and automatically wired up for you.

Connecting and removing things

Hover over a node to see its toolbar: Settings, Rename, I/O Inspector, and Delete.
Hover over a connection line to reveal a small "×" button at its midpoint. Click it to remove just that connection.
Select one or more nodes or connections (click, or drag a selection box) and press Delete or Backspace to remove them. Deleting a node also removes any connections attached to it.
Copy, paste, and duplicate work on whatever you've selected, using your keyboard shortcuts.
Select everything or clear your selection at any time; pressing Escape clears your selection (when no dialog is open).

A few node types can never receive an incoming connection, since they're meant to start a workflow or stand alone (for example the trigger node, the Media Library node, the Comment node, and the Text node).

Turning a node off

Most nodes have a power button in their bar. Click it to deactivate the node: it stays on the canvas with its settings and connections untouched, but it is skipped every time the workflow runs.
A deactivated node is greyed out, and its own Run button is switched off.
Nodes after it still run. They just don't receive anything from it, so a node that needs its result will tell you an input is missing. If you want that part of the flow off, switch those nodes off too.
Click the power button again to switch the node back on. The trigger node has no power button, since it starts the workflow rather than doing work of its own, and neither does the Comment node, which never runs anyway.

Saving Your Work

You never need to save manually. Every change you make to your nodes, connections, or canvas view marks your workflow as having unsaved changes, and 60 Minute Creator saves it automatically two seconds after your last edit. (Name and description edits are the one exception: they save on their own, one second after you stop typing.)

If your connection drops, a banner appears: "Connection lost, changes saved locally, will sync when reconnected." (The "changes saved locally" part only shows if you actually have unsaved changes.) Your edits are queued and sync automatically once you're back online.
If a save ever fails, 60 Minute Creator quietly retries five seconds later, as long as you're online.
After a successful save, a brief "saved" confirmation appears for a few seconds.
If you close or reload the tab while you have unsaved changes, 60 Minute Creator forces a final save first, so nothing is lost.
Publishing always saves your latest changes first, so what gets published always matches exactly what you see on the canvas.

Editing in Multiple Tabs

You can only actively edit a given workflow in one browser tab at a time. If you open the same workflow in a second tab or window while the first is active, the second one becomes read-only, and you'll see a banner: "This workflow is being edited in another window."

This protection is per browser tab. If you close or leave the first tab idle for about a minute, the lock releases and your other tab picks up editing rights automatically within about ten seconds.

Running Your Workflow

There are two ways to run your workflow:

The global Run button: a single "Run workflow" button (Play icon) in the action bar runs your whole workflow. While it's running, the button changes to "Stop run" so you can cancel. You can also press Cmd/Ctrl+Enter to run (or stop) the workflow from your keyboard.
Per-node Run buttons: each node has its own Run button with a dropdown of modes: "Run only this node", "Run this node and after", "Run workflow until here", and "Run full workflow".

Clicking a node's main Run button is smart about what it does:

If the node has no inputs, it runs just that node the first time (and itself plus everything downstream on later runs).
If the node's inputs have already been produced by a previous run, it runs that node plus everything downstream.
If the node's inputs haven't been run yet, you're prompted: "This node's inputs haven't been run yet," with the choice to "Run full workflow" or "Run workflow until here".

"Run only this node" only appears once that node's inputs already exist from an earlier run.

Publishing and Unpublishing

Publishing makes your workflow live so it can run on its own (for example on a schedule). The Publish button in the action bar shows:

A Rocket icon while your workflow is still a draft.
A "Republish" option (refresh icon) once it's already published.
A brief green checkmark labeled "Published" right after a successful publish.

Before publishing, 60 Minute Creator checks your workflow for incomplete or misconfigured nodes. If it finds any, you'll see: "Publish with incomplete nodes? This workflow has incomplete nodes. Publishing will allow scheduled runs to attempt execution, which may fail at incomplete nodes. Publish anyway?" with a choice to cancel or "Publish Anyway".

If your workflow includes a schedule, publishing it also turns that schedule on.

To take a workflow offline, click "Unpublish" (visible only while a workflow is published). This reverts it to draft, and turns off any active schedule.

You can also press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P to publish. Publishing is disabled while your workflow is open read-only (locked by another tab, see "Editing in Multiple Tabs" above).

Other Canvas Tools

The action bar also gives you:

Executions: view your workflow's run history.
Keyboard shortcuts: a reference of every shortcut available.
Node guide: built-in help for what each node does.
More actions menu: "Copy JSON" (copies your workflow to your clipboard) and "Import JSON" (loads a workflow from JSON), plus a "Default provider" picker for the workflow.