Flow creation in Nexla is now more efficient with a dropdown-based selector, canvas breadcrumbs for project flows now provide easier navigation, and flow details are accessible directly from the flow name dialog.  

These enhancements remove unnecessary navigation steps and put essential information and actions within immediate reach. The new flow creation dropdown eliminates the full-screen flow type selector, allowing users to preview flow types, watch introductory videos, and initiate creation without leaving their current screen. For flows organized within projects, you can now navigate to the project view directly from the full canvas flow view by clicking the project breadcrumb at the top of the screen, replacing the previous dropdown menu. Additionally, flow details can now be accessed directly from the flow name dialog in the full canvas view, providing instant access to comprehensive data flow information without disrupting your workflow.

🔷 Here's how these improvements enhance your platform experience:

• Dropdown-based flow creation
  Create new flows directly from a compact dropdown selector that displays flow type information and introductory videos, eliminating the need to navigate to a separate full-screen selection interface.
• Breadcrumb navigation for projects
  When working with project flows in the full canvas view, you can access the project view by simply clicking on the project breadcrumb, streamlining navigation that previously required using a dropdown menu.
  
  
• Instant access to flow details
  Open a flow's details drawer directly from the full canvas by clicking the info icon in the flow name dialog, making it easy to reference flow metadata without leaving your current context.
  
  
• Reduced navigation friction
  Complete common tasks with fewer clicks and screen transitions, keeping you focused on building and managing your data flows rather than navigating the interface.

These refinements create a more fluid experience throughout the platform, reducing the time and effort required to access the tools and information you need most frequently.

Log into Nexla to experience the streamlined navigation today!

Nexset Rules are now easier to understand and use—our newly added hover feature provides instant function details, and reusable transforms are displayed with assigned names instead of transform IDs.

We've made working with Nexset Rules even easier, helping you create transforms faster by eliminating the need to reference external resources or remember function syntax. When you hover over any rule function in the Nexset Designer or Nexset information panel, you'll now see a detailed information box containing the function name, a clear definition of what the function does, required parameters with explanations, and a practical example showing the completed function. This contextual help reduces the friction of building and understanding transforms by putting all necessary information directly at the point of use.

🔷 Here's how this Nexset Rules enhancement improves your transform workflows:

• Inline function documentation
  Hover over any rule function to view a comprehensive information box containing the function definition, required parameters with detailed descriptions, and a practical usage example—all without leaving your workflow.
• Contextual help across the platform
  Access function documentation both when creating or editing transforms in the Nexset Designer and when reviewing existing transforms in the Nexset information panel throughout the platform.
• Named transform display
  Reusable transforms now display with their assigned names instead of transform IDs, making it easier to identify the transform you need and to understand the transform's purpose at a glance.
• Faster transform development
  Build and troubleshoot Nexset Rules more efficiently with immediate access to function syntax, parameter requirements, and working examples without interrupting your workflow.

This enhancement significantly reduces the learning curve for new users while accelerating transform development for experienced users—bringing documentation directly into the interface where it's needed most.

Log into Nexla to explore the enhanced Nexset Rules documentation today!

Nexla's Overview screen now features a Quick Create bar for one-click flow creation and an upgraded Flow Runs widget that provides run-based activity insights, along with a cleaner interface and enhanced visibility into organization-wide usage for Administrators.

The redesigned Overview screen transforms your starting point in Nexla by adding convenient shortcuts for flow creation and providing more meaningful insights into your data operations. The new Quick Create bar offers a faster path to building data flows when you want to jump directly into creation, while the Flow Runs widget replaces the previous Data Flow Status display with run-based metrics that more accurately reflect actual data flow activity—giving you immediate visibility into recent executions, record volumes, and current status across your flows.

🔷 Here's how the enhanced Overview screen improves your platform experience:

• One-click flow creation
  Launch flow creation directly from the Overview screen using the Quick Create bar—simply click a flow type tile to start building your data pipeline without navigating to the Integrate screen first.
• Run-based activity insights
  The new Flow Runs widget displays flows that have executed recently, showing flow names, execution timing, record counts, error notifications, and current status (Running or Idle) for a more accurate view of your data operations.
• Streamlined interface design
  Experience a cleaner, more intuitive layout that presents essential information and actions with improved visual clarity and reduced interface complexity.
• Organization-wide visibility for Administrators
  Administrators now see both personal and organization-wide usage statistics on a single screen, providing comprehensive insights into platform activity across the entire team.

This enhancement reduces the steps required to create new flows, provides more actionable insights into flow activity, and creates a more efficient starting point for your data operations—getting you to your work faster with better visibility into what's happening across your data pipelines.

Log into Nexla to check out the enhanced Overview screen today!

Edit sources, destinations, Nexsets, and credentials without leaving your current workflow—eliminating page redirections and keeping you focused on your data operations.

The new in-modal editing capability transforms how you manage platform resources by bringing editing functionality directly to you, wherever you are in the platform. Instead of navigating away from your current task, you can now update and modify resources without breaking your workflow concentration.

🔷 Experience faster, more efficient resource management:

• Edit without navigation
  Modify sources, destinations, Nexsets, and credentials directly from modals, eliminating the need to navigate away from your current workflow to separate editing pages.
• Smart form responsiveness
  During API operations, only the relevant form sections are blocked while the rest remains interactive, ensuring you can continue working on other parts of your configuration without waiting.
• Protected editing environment
  Automatic background data refreshes are suppressed when forms or modals are open, preventing data loss and maintaining UI consistency while you make changes.

This enhancement reduces clicks, eliminates context switching, and creates a more fluid editing experience that keeps you in the flow of your data operations.

💡 Look for the enhanced editing options in resource modals throughout the platform—your workflow just got smoother.

The new splitter operational node now available in Nexla enables sophisticated data flow branching by filtering source data based on specified criteria and routing the filtered data into multiple downstream flow branches, each tailored to specific data subsets.

Splitter nodes represent a powerful addition to Nexla's operational flow nodes, allowing users to create complex data routing architectures from a single source. Instead of processing all data through identical downstream flows, users can now intelligently branch data pipelines to create specialized processing paths based on data characteristics—enabling more targeted and efficient data operations across diverse use cases.

🔷 Here's how Splitter nodes enhance your data flow architecture:

• Intelligent data flow branching
  Create multiple downstream data flows from a single source, with each branch receiving only the data that matches its specific filter criteria, enabling targeted processing for different data subsets.
• Criteria-based filtering and routing
  Define sophisticated filtering logic to automatically sort and route data into multiple downstream Nexsets, ensuring each branch processes only the data relevant to its specific purpose.
• Schema consistency across branches
  Each downstream Nexset generated by a splitter node maintains the same schema as the source Nexset, ensuring data structure consistency while enabling specialized processing logic for different data subsets.
• Built-in validation and security
  Automatic validations ensure data is correctly routed to appropriate downstream flows while maintaining all applied data access controls throughout the branching process.

This operational node significantly expands your data architecture possibilities, enabling the creation of sophisticated multi-path data processing workflows that can handle diverse data routing scenarios while maintaining data integrity and security across all branches.

Users can now edit active data sources without pausing & schedule source configuration changes to be applied at future dates and times. This update provides improved workflow flexibility and eliminates the need to make critical updates precisely when they should take effect.

The new source configuration scheduling capability transforms how teams manage data source updates by allowing configuration changes to be made to active sources without pausing them, and providing the flexibility to apply those changes immediately or schedule them for future application. Instead of editing sources to make configuration updates exactly when changes needed to take effect—often requiring off-hours work or precise timing coordination—users can edit active sources at any time and schedule modifications to be applied before the next ingestion cycle. This update dramatically improves operational convenience and reduces the risk of missed update windows.

🔷 Here's how scheduled source configuration enhances your data operations:

• Edit active sources without disruption
  Modify and save configuration changes to active sources without pausing data ingestion, maintaining continuous data flow while preparing future updates.
• Flexible scheduling control
  Choose to apply changes immediately for urgent updates or schedule them for future application, giving you complete control over when modifications take effect in your data pipeline.
• Advanced preparation capability
  Configure source changes days or weeks in advance, enabling proactive management of planned data source updates, maintenance windows, or business requirement changes.
• Enhanced schema detection
  Regular activation calls during source creation ensure reliable schema detection and validation, maintaining data integrity throughout the scheduling process.

This enhancement eliminates the operational burden of precisely-timed configuration updates, allowing teams to prepare changes during business hours and apply them automatically at optimal times—significantly reducing coordination overhead and the risk of manual timing errors.

NOVA's AI assistance expands beyond code-based transforms to include comprehensive no-code transform recommendations, delivering intelligent guidance through natural language interactions directly within the Nexset Designer.

This enhanced NOVA chatbot integration represents a significant advancement in democratizing data transformation workflows. Users can now chat with NOVA using natural language to receive intelligent transform and rule recommendations that can be automatically populated into the transform builder, making advanced data processing accessible to both technical and business users within a unified interface.

🔷 Here's how NOVA's expanded capabilities enhance your transform development:

• Universal transform assistance
  NOVA now provides intelligent recommendations for both code and no-code transforms through natural language conversations, eliminating the previous limitation to code-only scenarios and enabling AI-guided development regardless of your technical approach.
• Integrated design experience
  Access the Generate button and Chat UI directly within Nexset Designer, creating a seamless workflow where AI assistance is always available without switching between interfaces or losing context.
• Context-aware intelligent recommendations
  NOVA automatically receives the complete context of your current rules and configuration, ensuring every suggestion is relevant and can be directly applied to populate your transform builder with appropriate rules and transformations.
• Flexible interaction workflow
  Seamlessly transition between AI-guided assistance and direct UI manipulation, allowing you to leverage NOVA's intelligence while maintaining full control over your transform design process.

This enhancement significantly expands NOVA's utility across your entire organization, enabling all users to benefit from AI-powered transform development while working within their preferred development paradigm.

DirectFlows now support external triggering with adaptive runtime configuration—enabling a single flow to dynamically handle multiple execution scenarios.

The new externally triggered DirectFlows feature allows users to create a single, reusable flow that adapts to different execution scenarios based on runtime variables and programmatic triggers. This eliminates the previous need to create separate DirectFlows for each location when moving data from multiple sources of the same type—such as ingesting data from different Shopify accounts or database instances.

🔷 Here's how this feature streamlines your data operations:

• Single flow for multiple source locations
  Create one DirectFlow that can ingest data from different accounts, databases, or locations of the same source type. Configure it once, then tailor the flow to each scenario via a programmatic trigger.
• Runtime variable configuration
  Define global variables with default values in your flow's API URL, and override these values as needed in each trigger request to customize the flow's behavior for specific execution scenarios.
• Centralized credentials management
  Externally triggered DirectFlows automatically create a credentials group during setup. Users can add multiple credentials to this group, then specify which credential to use for each execution via API variables, streamlining authentication across different source locations.
• Flexible programmatic control
  Trigger flows via API calls with customizable request bodies that can specify different source configurations, credentials, and processing parameters for each execution.

This enhancement significantly reduces the number of flows needed for multi-location data ingestion scenarios while providing greater flexibility and control over data processing workflows. 

💡 To learn more, see our DirectFlows user guide.

Creating data products just got faster and more efficient with Nexla’s new Enhanced Transform Editor now available in the Nexset Designer!

This enhanced transform editing experience brings a faster, more intuitive way to build transformations and visualize your transform rules. Now, you can create no-code transform rules even more efficiently by typing directly into free text fields—making it easier to discover and apply functions, attributes, and other resources as you go. 

With new keyboard shortcuts and streamlined navigation, you can also build and test transform rules entirely by keyboard, helping you prepare and move data faster than ever.

⭐  Highlights of Nexla's enhanced transform editor include:

• Faster, more efficient rule building
  Just type the output attribute name, add an equals sign, and define your transformation—no clicks required. As you type, helpful dropdowns suggest functions, attributes, and resources to guide your rule creation.
• Easily accessible function details
  Highlight any function listed in the dropdown to instantly view detailed information about the function as well as any formatting and/or input requirements in a side panel.
• Error-tolerant editing
  Incomplete or incorrect transform rules are safely saved but are not applied, so your data flow stays running while you fine-tune transformations. Detailed error messages also enable rapid error identification and correction.
• Improved readability—even for complex rules
  Transform rules are now easier to read and understand in both the Nexset Designer and the Nexset information drawer. Complex rules can be automatically formatted to span multiple lines, making even nested functions easier to follow at a glance.
• Switch between editor versions anytime
  For users who prefer Nexla's classic transform editor experience, the provided toggle lets you switch between the advanced and classic editor versions with a single click.

This upgrade is all about making transformation creation more intuitive and efficient—so you can spend less time writing rules and more time delivering data products.

💡 Try the advanced transform editor with your data today!

Building and testing transforms using Nexla's pre-built transform rules is now even easier with granular control for transform rules

The Nexset Designer and our pre-built transform rules let users easily create transforms that prepare, enrich, and validate data exactly as they need it, without requiring any code. These transforms often contain numerous rules, which can complicate testing new transforms and troubleshooting errors in output data.

We're introducing the ability to granularly disable transform rules in the Nexset Designer to simplify these processes.

🔷  Here's a look at how this feature can help your organization:

• Transform rules can now be disabled, or hidden, individually
  Disabling rules allows users to more efficiently test transforms and identify rules that cause errors or unexpected results in output data.
  
  
  
  
• Disable or re-enable rules with a single click
  Once a rule is disabled, click Run Nexset Rules to apply the remaining rules and preview the output data. Disabled rules can then be modified, deleted, or re-enabled based on the results, avoiding unnecessary rule deletion–recreation cycles.
  
  
  
  
• Disable one or multiple rules
  Any number of transform rules can be disabled—this streamlines testing/troubleshooting processes, no matter how complex the transform is.