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# Flow Management Considerations

When managing flows, consider the administration and activation limits.

### Required Editions

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## Viewing Flows

In Lightning Experience, the Flows page in Setup doesn’t display any flows if a user sets the Sharing Settings of the All Flows list view to Only I can see this list view.

## Activating Flows

When you activate a new version of a flow, the previously activated version (if one exists) is automatically deactivated. Any running flow interview continues to run using the version with which it was initiated.

If the user who activated a flow is deactivated, the flow stops working. This applies to all flow types, including form-triggered flows and segment-triggered flows.

## Deleting Flows

To delete an active flow version, first deactivate it. If a flow has paused interviews, it can’t be deleted until those interviews are finished or deleted. You can delete flows that have never been activated at any time.

## Flow Type

If a flow has versions with different types, the active (or latest) version determines the flow type.

## Deploying Flows

In production orgs, you can enable the setting to deploy a new active version of a process or flow via change sets or Metadata API. The setting doesn't appear in non-production orgs (such as scratch, sandbox, and developer orgs), because you can always deploy a new active version.

#### See Also

- [Deploy Processes and Flows as Active](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.flow_distribute_deploy_active.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "By default, processes and flows that are active in a sandbox or non-production org are deployed to a production org as inactive. After deployment, manually reactivate the new versions. In production orgs, you can enable the setting to deploy a new active version of a process or flow via change sets or Metadata API. If you use a continuous integration and continuous delivery model to deploy metadata changes, enable the option to deploy processes and flows as active.")
- [Flow Limits and Considerations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.flow_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "When designing, managing, and running flows, consider the permissions, use limits, and data issues.")