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Flows

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Install the Navattic Chrome Extension to build a Flow.

Flows are step-by-step demos that a user progresses through at their own pace. Top-performing Flows are concise (8-15 steps) and include one or more conversion opportunities. Consider:

  1. Is your goal to create a high-level overview or to showcase a detailed portion of your product?
  2. How do you want users to interact with your product during the demo? (ex. Click a button, type a string of text, explore a dashboard)
  3. This storyboard template may help plan the steps for your Flow.

1. Create a Flow

Select + Create Flow to get started.

There are 4 ways to Create a new flow:

  • + Blank will be to create a Flow with no Captures included yet
  • New captures will let you take Captures to be used in the Flow
  • From collection will create Flow steps using Captures from an existing Collection
  • Copy will duplicate an entire Flow from this any Product Demo in your workspace

Tip: If you choose to create a Flow from a capture collection, select Tooltip as the Step appearance.

Within the Flow Builder, you can reorder steps, duplicate steps, and insert new steps as needed.

2. Choose Step Types

The Flow Builder contains five different step types to help create an engaging demo.

The five step types are Modal, Tooltip, Invisible, Form, and Embed. To change step types, click the description on your desired step and select an option from the right-hand menu that appears.

2.1 Modal

Best used for welcome or closing messages, a Modal is a dialog box that appears on top of your Capture. Modals include a button to help viewers move to the next step. Modals can be positioned in the center or corners of the screen and encourage the end user to explore on their own.

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2.1.1 Change the Modal Position

To change the positioning of your Modal, select Modal > Custom position. You can then select where you would like the modal to appear on the screen.

2.1.2 Edit the Height of a Modal

Set a fixed height on any Modal or Tooltip within your demo to accommodate a longer section of text, without covering important aspects of your product. This may be set for each step of your demo.

To set a custom height for your Modal, select Modal and toggle on Custom dimensions. Use the arrows to adjust the number to set a custom height.

2.2 Tooltip

Best used to promote interactivity with your product, a Tooltip is small dialog box that anchors to a specific onscreen element. Clicking the selected element will automatically advance users to the next step.

Tooltips can be positioned Above/Below/Right/Left of the selected element and combined with a backdrop (e.g., a light shadow on unselected elements) to best highlight your selected element.

Tooltip example
Tooltip example


2.2.1 Anchor your Tooltip

After adding the capture to your step, click Select element > Use your mouse to select an element > Use arrows to span element > Save anchor

2.2.2 Add a Backdrop with your Tooltip

Adding a backdrop with your Tooltip can help highlight important elements, even on a smaller mobile screen. To add a backdrop select Tooltip > Backdrop > Light, Medium or Heavy

2.2.3 Change Tooltip Position

To change the positioning of your Tooltip, select Anchor > Advanced > Custom position. You can then select where you would like the Tooltip to appear on the screen.

2.2.4 Customize Tooltip Width

To customize the tooltip width, go to Themes > Select Theme > Tooltip > Use the arrows to set the Width for Small, Medium and Large Tooltips. You can also edit the tooltip pointer size here.

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Once you have set your custom tooltip widths, go to your Product Demo > Select Tooltip > Turn on Custom tooltip width > Select Small, Medium, or Large



Set Custom tooltip width in demo
Set Custom tooltip width in demo


2.2.5 Customize Tooltip Height

To set a custom height for your Tooltip, click Tooltip > Custom dimensions > Select Set specific height.

2.3 Invisible Steps

Invisible steps are used when you don’t want any dialog boxes present on a particular step. These are combined with Triggers or Beacons to support the live presentation / sales enablement use case, but rarely used for marketing demos.

Demos with invisible steps are not recommended for sharing directly with viewers as they are a mostly unguided experience.

2.4 Forms

A Navattic Form is the quickest way to collect Visitor information such as name, email, and company during your demo. Forms can be placed on any step in your demo and also include checkboxes (ex., Terms and Conditions) and custom text fields.

To include a Navattic Form in your demo, visit the Flow Builder > add a Step > select the "Form" step type > customize the fields that appear in your form. This form will now be used to collect Visitor information in this demo.

Tip: Top-performing Navattic demos include 1-2 form fields, max. Account-Based Engagement can also be used to add firmographic information using the email field alone, helping you reduce the numner of fields in your form.

2.4.1 Edit Variables in Forms

The default variables are "I have read and accept the terms and conditions", "Company", "Email", and "Name". Select Edit variables to edit, delete, or add variables. You will not be able to delete "Company", "Email", or "Name" as they are required identification variables.

Make sure to check "Field is required" if you want to require the user to fill out the specific field in order to proceed in the demo.

If you would like to add a hyperlink to the terms and conditions checkbox, you can do so by selecting Edit variables > select Edit next to the terms and conditions variable > Under Display Name, swap out the default link between the parentheses (https://example.com/terms).

The default display name is "I have read and accept the [terms and conditions](https://example.com/terms)."

2.5 Embed

Embed a Calendly or Chilipiper event on a step to allow visitors to schedule appointments without leaving your demo. When choosing your step type, select Embed > Calendly or Chilipiper > Enter the URL. Try this demo to see a Calendly embed in action.

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2.5.1 Embed a Hubspot Form

To add a Hubspot form select Embed as the step type > Hubspot Form. Enter the HubSpot Form ID, Portal ID and Region (required). Here is more info on embedding a Hubspot Form.

If your form submissions are marked as spam in Hubspot, you may have to add the domains capture.navattic.com and <workspace_slug>.navattic.com to your reports settings in Hubspot.

2.5.2 Embed a Marketo Form

To add a Marketo form select Embed as the step type > Marketo Form. Enter the Marketo Munchkin ID and Form ID which can be found in the Marketo URL as seen below. In this example the Munchkin ID is 137-MKP-579 and the Form ID is 1018.

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2.6. Video Step

The Video Step feature lets you easily incorporate videos into your demo experiences. Teams are leveraging this to showcase customer case studies, highlight key use cases, and present branded content.

To add a video step, select Video from the Step type dropdown in the Flow Builder. Once you've added a Video step, you can click + Select video to either upload a video from your local storage or insert a link from YouTube, Vimeo, Loom, Wistia, or Vidyard.

Example of a Video Step
Example of a Video Step


3. Add Buttons, Beacons, and Triggers

Buttons, Beacons, and Triggers provide additional ways for users to interact with your product. By default, engaging with a Button, Beacon, or Trigger will send the user to the next step (this is a "click action"). You can adjust the click action to be one or more of the following:

Click Action

Description

Go to next step

Takes the end user to the next step in this Flow

Go back a step

Takes the end user to the previous step in this Flow

Jump to a step

Allows visitors to skip forwards or backward within this Flow

Start a Flow

Begins a new Flow. Select from any Flows within your workspace.

Open Checklist

Prompts a Checklist to open at a specific point in the demo.

Complete Flow

Launches a Checklist if a Checklist is present in the Project

Navigate to URL

Takes the end user to an external link (e.g., a Book Demo page). Tip: We recommend adding UTMs to any URLs you link out to throughout your demo. For example, turn https://www.navattic.com/get-demo into https://www.navattic.com/get-demo?utm_source=navatticdemo in order to track form fills that originate from Navattic.

Mark as Converted

For reporting purposes (i.e., not visible to the end user), this indicates that an end user has engaged with a specific CTA within your demo. This tag is automatically added to CTA buttons within Escape View.

3.1 Configure Buttons

Buttons can be added to Modals and Tooltips and are recommended for the last step in a Flow.

To add a Button, click the dialog box on a Modal or Tooltip step. In the header that appears, click "+" and select Button. Click the newly added Button to customize button text and set click actions. The appearance (shape, size, and color) of buttons can be adjusted in Themes.

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Tip: Turn on Navigation Buttons to quickly add a Back and Next button to every Step in a Flow. From the Flow Builder > click "Settings" > "Turn on Navigation Buttons". You may also steps to Hide Navigation Buttons on a Step if needed.

3.2 Configure Beacons

A Beacon is a small pulsing dot next to an element within your Capture. A step may contain multiple Beacons.

To add a Beacon, navigate to the bottom of your desired step and click Add element > Beacon. Select the onscreen element you would like to highlight. Clicking the purple "Beacon" bar to open the Beacon settings menu will let you assign a default position, custom size (set at the Theme) as well as one or more click actions for the Beacon.

Anchor highlights (a pulsing element border visual) can also be enabled from the Beacon settings menu. Anchor highlights can be used with or without Beacons. Anchor highlight opacity can be set at the Theme.

3.3 Configure Triggers

A trigger is an element that waits for a user input before progressing. To add a Trigger, locate your desired step and click Add element. Select your Trigger Condition and Click Action(s).

Navattic offers three types of Trigger Conditions:

  1. Text input - this will require users to enter a string of text to progress. This is only applicable to Web Captures with HTML text input fields (ex. a search bar).
  2. Timer trigger - this will automatically trigger the click action after a specified amount of time.
  3. Element trigger - this will wait until an element has been clicked to progress. This can be used on any Capture or step type.

Tip: By default, Tooltips include a "progress on click" click action. This advances to the next step when the element is clicked. When using a Text Input Trigger and Tooltip on the same step, deactivate the Tooltip's "Progress on click" action by clicking the black "Anchor" bar > deselect "Progress on click". Link to tutorial.

4. Add Voiceover

Enhance your demos with dynamic narration through various options, including reading from the individual steps, custom text-to-speech, or uploaded audio.

To add voiceover to specific steps in your demo, in the Flow Builder click Add element > Voiceover. From here, use the dropdown to select the option you want to use:

  1. Read from text: Add in custom text to read from (tip: use this with an Invisible step)
  2. Read from step: Read directly from the text in the Modal or Tooltip
  3. Upload audio: Upload audio files from your local storage

If you select Read from text or Read from step, use the dropdown to select your preferred Voice.

5. Add Personalization

Personalization is used to share customized demos at scale. Personalization variables can be added to the text in Tooltips and Modals.

To add personalization to a particular step, click the dialog box on a Modal or Tooltip. In the header that appears, click "+" and select "Personalization".

Add "Personalization" to a Modal or Tooltip
Add "Personalization" to a Modal or Tooltip


Next, select the variable you want to add to the step. Finally, set an optional fallback value (this will be used if the variable token is not found for any reason).

6. Adjust Flow Settings

From the Flow Builder, click Settings to customize your demo further. Here you can:

  1. Turn on Navigation buttons (this adds a "back" and "next" button to each step)
  2. Turn on Escape View (this introduces a CTA step when a user exits your demo)
  3. Turn on Beacons reveal hotkey (All beacons will be hidden by default. Press "Ctrl + B" to toggle the beacon's visibility)

7. Update your Demo

Follow this recommended workflow to keep your demo up-to-date with UI changes:

1. Make a copy of each flow in the demo. To copy a Flow, select the three dots next to the Flow > Make Copy.

2. Open up the duplicated Flow and click on the Capture in the first step. Select the Capture Collection dropdown menu and click + Create new collection > Add a title and enter your App URL > Create.

Create new Collection in Flow Builder
Create new Collection in Flow Builder


3. Take updated Captures of the screens that need to be replaced. Title each Capture with the step number to help you track which step it should be added to. Watch this video to learn how to take Web Captures.

Tip: Keep your original demo open in another window so that you can easily reference it while taking new Captures.

4. Once you finish taking updated Captures, pin the new Capture Collection as the default Collection when you select new Captures.

Pin Capture Collection
Pin Capture Collection


5. Swap out the Captures and re-select the anchor elements. It may be helpful to have the old Flow open in a new tab for reference.

6. Repeat this process for all Flows in your demo. Once you have updated the demo, you can delete the old Flows by clicking the three dots next to the Flow > Delete. You can always restore a previous version of your demo if needed.

If you have a Checklist, update it with the new Flows before deleting the old Flows to avoid receiving an error message.



Flows FAQs

You can add images, videos, and audio clips in Modals and Tooltips. From the Flow Builder, navigate to your desired step > click the dialog box > click "+" in the dialog header that appears > select and upload your media.

Images and audio recordings will be uploaded directly from your device. Videos will require a link to a public video on Youtube, Vimeo, Loom, Wistia or Vidyard. We recommend keeping media attachments short to encourage users to explore your product on their own.

We recommend adding dual CTAs to the last step of your Flow. You may click "+" to add a Button to the Modal or Tooltip, or hide Navigation Buttons on the last step if needed. This will make it clear to your end user that they have completed the demo and encourage them to convert!

To hide Navigation Buttons, click your step heading (ex. "Modal" or "Tooltip") > toggle on Hide navigation in the right-hand menu. Now that the navigation buttons aren't visible on this step, click the + button in the step and select Button. If you want to add more than one button, repeat this step.

Hide navigation for one step
Hide navigation for one step


While each step can only include one Tooltip or Modal, Beacons can be used to highlight multiple elements at once (example). To do this, find your Step in the Flow Builder and simply add Beacons. We recommend including a Tooltip on this Step to communicate the intended workflow with users.

Tooltips may run off screen if the selected anchor element is too large and does not leave enough room to display the Tooltip fully. You can change the tooltip position, edit the tooltip height and/or edit the tooltip width to try and get the Tooltip to fit.

If these edits do not solve the problem, please select a smaller anchor element for this step.



Before selecting a smaller element
Before selecting a smaller element

After selecting smaller element
After selecting smaller element


From the Flow Builder, click on the Capture bar on a specific step to replace an existing Capture. This will open a dropdown menu where you can select a Capture from the current Collection, Add to the Collection, or select Captures from a different Collection in your workspace.

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Escape View will match the Escape step that can be found at the end of your flow builder. To turn on Escape view, click settings > toggle on Escape view.

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Forms are used to gather user information such as name, email, company, and more. If the goal of your demo is to directly generate leads, a Form may be helpful for gathering information. Typically, about 20% of demo Visitors will fill out a Form on the first step.

If using a Form, we recommend introducing this early in your demo and keeping it brief (1-2 fields if possible). Remember, your demo likely also includes other CTAs and conversion points that help high-intent viewers make their interest known.

The Navattic Chrome Extension is required in order to select elements within the Flow builder. Be sure to install this extension first. If it is already installed, please remove and re-add it to update it.

Text input has value condition can be used to have viewers engage with the capture by adding a text string to a text input field. If a text input condition is used in conjunction with a tooltip on the same step, you will also want to toggle off the Progress on click option on the step (found by clicking on the Anchor > Advnaced) so that the demo does not move to the next step when the element is clicked.

While most Navattic demos benefit from dialog boxes that tell a story about your product, Beacons can be used to highlight standalone elements in your Captures. From your Flow > add a Beacon. By default, a Beacon is a blinking dot next to an element.

With the Bulk Editor, you can apply edits across multiple steps at once. Bulk edits include:

  • Updating all beacons to triggers
  • Turning multiple modals into tooltips
  • Changing all beacons to have a highlight appearance instead of pulse
  • Deleting multipe beacons or triggers at the same time
  • and more!

With Product Demos, you can copy over Flows from existing Product Demos. To do this, visit Flows > + Create Flow > Copy. Select the target Product Demo and desired Flow to copy into your new Product Demo.

Can I add navigation buttons to my demo without using a Modal or Tooltip?

Yes, you can add navigation buttons without using a modal or tooltip by creating a Theme with a transparent dialog box and border.

To create a Theme, visit Themes > + Create theme. From here, select Dialog > Dialog Background Color > use the opacity slider under the color picker to make the dialog box transparent. Repeat this step with the Dialog border color.

Learn more about Themes.