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# Control Whether Users Can Pause a Flow from a Visualforce Page

After you embed a flow in a Visualforce page with the `<flow:interview>` component, consider whether you want to let users pause flows from that page. Set the `allowShowPause` attribute to false to prevent users from pausing.

Whether the **Pause** button appears depends on three settings.

-   Your org’s Process Automation settings must have `Let users pause flows` enabled.
-   For this `<flow:interview>`, `allowShowPause` must not be false. The default value is true.
-   Each screen must be configured to show the **Pause** button.


## Example

In a Visualforce page, you’ve embedded a flow that includes three screens. Screen 1 is configured to show the **Pause** button. Screens 2 and 3 are configured to not show the **Pause** button.

|Let Users Pause Flows(Process Automation setting)|`allowShowPause`(Visualforce component)|Result Pause button|
|-------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|-------------------|
|Enabled|`true` or not set|Pause button appears only on the first screen|
|Enabled|`false`|Pause button doesn’t appear for any screens in this Visualforce page|
|Not enabled|`true` or not set|Pause button doesn’t appear for any screens|

This example embeds the MyUniqueFlow flow in a Visualforce page and doesn’t allow the **Pause** button to appear.

```visualforce
<apex:page>   
   <flow:interview name="MyUniqueFlow" allowShowPause="false" />
</apex:page>
```