Webex Contact Center Flow Designer architecture

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   The activity set uses at least 5 different label conventions for the same idea of an outcome: Success and Failure on one activity onSuccess and onError on another Handled and Escalated and Error on a third Errored on its successor and True and False on the branching activities.field report

   Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Flow Designer, activity output ports across the catalogue · Checked 2026-09-15
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   The WebexSamples webex-contact-center-flows repository self-describes as the official repository of sample Webex Contact Center flow templates usable in Flow Designer, and was last pushed on 19 August 2026.

   WebexSamples/webex-contact-center-flows · GitHub API repository description and pushed_at fields · Checked 2026-09-04
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   Enabling real-time transcription for all queues (rather than specific queues via conditional logic) requires manually adding a Start Media Stream activity in Flow Designer directly after the AgentAnswered event (inbound calls) or OutboundCall event (outbound calls).

   Enable AI Assistant features in Control Hub for Webex Contact Center · How to enable real-time transcriptions section · Checked 2026-09-04
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   The Virtual Agent V2 flow activity has 2 outcome paths -- 'Handled' (virtual agent execution completed) and 'Escalated' (call must be escalated to a human agent) -- plus an 'Errored' error-handling path.

   Configure Virtual Agent-Voice in Webex Contact Center · Configure Virtual Agent V2 Activity section · Checked 2026-09-04
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   The Virtual Agent V2 activity must not be placed immediately after a Queue Contact activity, and must not be placed in the Event Flow canvas -- both configurations are explicitly unsupported.

   Configure Virtual Agent-Voice in Webex Contact Center · Configure Virtual Agent V2 activity (Dialogflow ES section) · Checked 2026-09-04
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   Placing the Virtual Agent V2 activity immediately after a Queue Contact activity, or in the Event Flow canvas, produces no runtime warning even though both configurations are unsupported.

   Configure Virtual Agent-Voice in Webex Contact Center · Configure Virtual Agent V2 activity (Dialogflow ES section) · Checked 2026-09-04
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   The system prevents deleting an entry point or a flow that participates in flow chaining unless all chaining references are removed first; force-deleting skips validation silently with no UI error.

   Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Link multiple flows (with GoTo) / Known issues · Checked 2026-09-04
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   Activity configuration can be copied and pasted across organisations and browsers.

   Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Flow Designer, copy and paste activities · Checked 2026-09-15
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   Custom HTTP connectors configured for OAuth 2.0 support Client Credentials and Password grant types, requiring Client ID, Client Secret, Token URL, and Scope fields.

   Contact Center Flow Designer: Integrating Third-Party APIs with the HTTP Integration Connector · developer.webex.com blog / HTTP Integration Connector · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The digital-channel workflows in this repository run on Webex Connect (a separate node-based flow product for chat, email, SMS, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Apple Messages for Business), distinct from the voice-oriented Flow Designer covered by source #1.

    CiscoDevNet/webexcc-digital-channels · README.md, Webex Connect Flows/README.md · Checked 2026-09-04
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    A Webex developer blog describes 5 categories of flow data: Local (custom flow) Variables, Global Variables, Caller Associated Data (CAD) Variables, Activity Output Variables, and Event Output Variables.

    Design Delightful Customer Experiences with Webex Contact Center Flow Designer · developer.webex.com blog / Data Definitions for Effective Flow Design · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Flow Analytics does not support subflows internally; it tracks that a subflow was added to a main flow but excludes the subflow's own internal activity data.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Analyze flows / Flow Analytics · Checked 2026-09-04
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    A flow can contain a maximum of 30 variables in total, and this count includes all global variables plus flow (custom) variables regardless of whether they are reportable or agent viewable.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Use variables and expressions / Create Custom Flow Variables · Checked 2026-09-04
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    A Function activity's execution time is limited to 5 seconds.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Create and manage functions / FAQs · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The Function activity supports 2 languages in its first phase: JavaScript (Node.js 22.x) and Python (3.13).

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Create and manage functions / FAQs · Checked 2026-09-04
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    An organization can have a maximum of 200 functions.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Create and manage functions / Important considerations · Checked 2026-09-04
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    A Function activity's code block is limited to a maximum of 5000 lines of code.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Create and manage functions / FAQs · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The maximum memory allocated per function is 128 MB.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Create and manage functions / Important considerations · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Functions can use common native libraries but there is no support for custom modules inside the code block.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Create and manage functions / FAQs · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Publishing a new version of a function immediately updates the behavior of all flows that consume the tagged version(s) of that function, including live production flows.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Create and manage functions / Create a function · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The failure branch of the queue information activity is described as triggering when an interface fails or returns invalid values rather than in terms of the activity's own failure codes.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Flow Designer, Get Queue Info activity · Checked 2026-09-15
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    Global variables cannot be marked as secure; only custom flow variables can be marked secure.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Use variables and expressions / Custom variables · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Global variables are created by an administrator in the Provisioning module of Control Hub, and flow developers consume (add, edit default value of, or remove) them inside a flow rather than fully redefining them.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Use variables and expressions / Global variables · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Flow chaining lets 1 flow hand off to another flow or entry point using the GoTo terminating activity, and flow variables can be mapped across flows so data persists end-to-end.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Link multiple flows (with GoTo) · Checked 2026-09-04
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    WarmTransfer's reading of the sources is that Flow Designer is a voice and IVR orchestration tool, and that digital-channel orchestration for chat, email, SMS and social runs on the separate Webex Connect product rather than on the activities Flow Designer publishes.inferred

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · synthesis across the Flow Designer article and the CiscoDevNet digital-channels repository · Checked 2026-09-04
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    A JSON-type flow variable's value can be up to 16 KB in size.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Use variables and expressions / Create Custom Flow Variables · Checked 2026-09-04
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    A flow can contain a maximum of 5 JSON-type variables.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Use variables and expressions / Create Custom Flow Variables · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The queue information activities return minus one as an expected value rather than as an error when a figure does not apply.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Flow Designer, Get Queue Info and Advanced Queue Information activities · Checked 2026-09-15
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    Flow Designer has no true version-control feature; the 'Flow version' number displayed is simply a count of how many times the flow has been published.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Explore the layout / Footer pane (global properties) · Checked 2026-09-04
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    If a flow developer does not configure an error handling path for an activity, execution falls back to the path defined in the OnGlobalError event handler.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Configure error handling · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The activity set uses at least 5 label conventions for an outcome and one activity family names the same position Error on one activity and Errored on its successor.field report

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Flow Designer, activity output ports across the catalogue · Checked 2026-09-15
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    The position in queue value is set to the number of contacts already waiting plus one when the contact is not yet queued and the activity does not return empty after the contact leaves the queue.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Flow Designer, Get Queue Info activity · Checked 2026-09-15
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    A flow cannot be published unless validation succeeds; the Publish flow button is disabled while the Validation toggle is off or any active errors exist.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Create and manage flows / Validate a flow, Publish a flow · Checked 2026-09-04
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    When publishing a flow, you can attach 1 or more version labels (such as Live, Test, or Dev); 'Latest' is applied by default and cannot be removed from the most recently published version.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Create and manage flows / Publish a flow · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Accessing the Flow Designer application requires a Premium Agent License plus a user profile with rights to edit flows.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Get started / Access Flow Designer · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Flow variables can be marked Secure, which prevents the system from logging or storing sensitive values and masks those values in the Flow Debugging pane.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Use variables and expressions / Custom variables · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The system-enforced self-loop limit for the Advanced Queue Information activity is 1500 executions.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · System-enforced self-loop limits for activities (table) · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The system-enforced self-loop limit for the Bridged Transfer activity is 75 executions.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · System-enforced self-loop limits for activities (table) · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The Disconnect Contact activity has a self-loop limit of 0, meaning the system does not allow it to loop back into itself at all.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · System-enforced self-loop limits for activities (table) · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The system-enforced self-loop limit for the Escalate Call Distribution Group activity is 750 executions.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · System-enforced self-loop limits for activities (table) · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Flow-control activities (as opposed to call-handling activities) are not covered by the fixed per-activity self-loop table; instead they are subject to system-configured surge limits to prevent infinite looping.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · System-enforced self-loop limits for activities · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Collect Digits, Menu, Queue Contact, Queue to Agent, Set Caller ID and Set Contact Priority each carry a system-enforced self-loop limit of 100 executions.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · System-enforced self-loop limits for activities (table) · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Cisco's Webex Contact Center 'What's new' changelog announced self-loop limits for Flow Designer activities under the heading 'Flow Reliability Enhancements', dated February 17, 2026.

    What's new for administrators in Webex Contact Center · What's new for administrators in Webex Contact Center changelog · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Self-loop limits exist to prevent activities from entering endless loops within a single interaction; exceeding the limit at runtime produces a warning that a loop was detected.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · System-enforced self-loop limits for activities · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Blind Transfer, Callback, Call Progress Analysis, Recording Control, Record, Schedule Callback, and FeedbackV2 each have a system-enforced self-loop limit of 10 executions.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · System-enforced self-loop limits for activities (table) · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The system-enforced self-loop limit for both the Virtual Agent and Virtual Agent V2 activities is 50 executions each.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · System-enforced self-loop limits for activities (table) · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The system extracts at most 20 headers from an incoming SIP INVITE message; if more than 20 are present, only the first 20 alphabetically sorted headers are extracted.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · NewContact / SIP header extraction · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Certain SIP header name patterns (e.g. X-Address, X-BNR-*, X-RTMS-*) are reserved for internal use; any custom header matching these patterns is dropped by default and never passed to Webex Contact Center.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · NewContact / SIP header extraction · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Subflows have a 'Propagate changes to all flows' setting; disabling it before editing a subflow prevents a change in that subflow from automatically disrupting every parent flow that consumes it.

    Rapidly Adapt Your CX Workflows With Webex Contact Center Flow Designer · developer.webex.com blog / Subflows – Enhancing Modularity and Reuse · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The Undefined Error node (used to route undefined system errors) is not present on 4 Flow Control activities: Start Flow, End Flow, HTTP Request, and Parse.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Configure error handling · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The publish control is disabled while the validation toggle is off so a new flow cannot be published until the author turns validation on.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Flow Designer, validate and publish a flow · Checked 2026-09-15
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    Flow validation only checks for structural errors (required fields, valid structure); it cannot evaluate functions or confirm that variables resolve to expected values at runtime.

    Build and manage flows with Flow Designer · Create and manage flows / Validate a flow · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The intelligent contact management router and logger map to Flow Designer, replacing scripted routing logic with a visual flow builder.

    Contact Center: Transitioning from Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise to Webex Contact Center Deployment Guide · pages 29 to 30, table 8, Component Mapping · Checked 2026-09-05
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    The System Limits article publishes the same Flow Designer self-loop limits as the Flow Designer article: 0 for Disconnect Contact, 10 for Callback, Blind Transfer, Recording Control, Record, Call Progress Analysis, FeedbackV2 and Schedule Callback, 50 for Virtual Agent and Virtual Agent V2, 75 for Bridged Transfer, 100 for Queue Contact, Queue to Agent, Set Caller ID, Collect Digits, Menu and Set Contact Priority, 750 for Escalate Call Distribution Group and 1,500 for Advanced Queue Information.

    System limits in Webex Contact Center · Flow Designer self-loop limits table · Checked 2026-09-04
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    Cisco states that the self-loop limits exist as a safeguard against logical errors caused by unintended loops, so that such errors do not fail silently.

    System limits in Webex Contact Center · paragraph introducing the self-loop limits table · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The System Limits article's self-loop table adds 2 activities the Flow Designer article did not supply to the corpus: Upload Audio with a self-loop limit of 3 and Start Media Stream with a self-loop limit of 20.

    System limits in Webex Contact Center · Flow Designer self-loop limits table, Upload Audio and Start Media Stream rows · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The Set Contact Priority row in the self-loop table gives a limit of 100, which is a cap on how many times that activity may loop back to itself within 1 interaction, not a priority value range.

    System limits in Webex Contact Center · Flow Designer self-loop limits table, Set Contact Priority row · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The System Limits article publishes none of the Flow Designer custom-function limits the corpus holds: it contains no figure for functions per organisation, memory per function, lines of code or execution time, and does not use the words function, memory or execution in that sense anywhere.inferred

    System limits in Webex Contact Center · whole document, absence confirmed by search · Checked 2026-09-04
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    An Entry Point is the configuration object that associates an inbound telephone number with an IVR service flow (a Webex CC Flow) in Webex Contact Center; inbound numbers must be mapped to entry points as part of PSTN provisioning.

    Set up voice channels for Webex Contact Center · Configuration of Inbound Entry Points to Webex Contact Center subsection · Checked 2026-09-04
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    The Contact Center MCP server exposes 15 tools covering flow management, activity discovery, validation, choices, events, templates, real-time subscriptions, administrative configuration and historical analytics.

    Contact Center MCP Server · Tools section · Checked 2026-09-05

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WarmTransfer. (2026, September 15). Webex Contact Center Flow Designer architecture. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/webex-cc-flow-designer

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