# Groups & run order

Keep related steps together, then choose exactly which part of a workflow to run.

Source: https://www.creativly.ai/docs/flow/groups-and-runs

![Dark Flow canvas at normal zoom with a completed image and video inside Frame 1, their first-frame connection visible, and Arrange and Ungroup controls above the group.](https://pub-60e30bed45514f03933d3900731bea31.r2.dev/public-app-sessions/v1/documentation/flow-grouped-workspace-e46c71a8e6111b03.webp)

One frame keeps the product image and its connected video together. The curved connection still defines what passes between them.

A **frame** organizes nodes on the canvas. It does not generate media or connect the nodes for you.

## Keep a workflow together

Select the nodes you want to group, then choose **Create frame** in **Actions**. Use **Select mode** to select an area, or hold **Ctrl** on Windows/Linux or **⌘** on Mac while selecting additional nodes.

![Actions panel for two selected nodes, including the Create frame button.](https://pub-60e30bed45514f03933d3900731bea31.r2.dev/public-app-sessions/v1/documentation/flow-group-create-71617564a38faf20.webp)

Select two or more nodes to reveal the grouping action.

* Move the frame to move its contents together.
* **Arrange** lays out the nodes inside the frame.
* **Ungroup** removes the frame and keeps its nodes and connections.
* **Undo** reverses your last canvas change.

Leave room around the cards for their settings, prompts, and connecting curves.

## Preview a selection before running it

With nodes selected, open the **Workflow** tab in the Actions panel and choose **Preview order**. Check the steps, models, and estimate before starting.

### Brief + image

![Actual pre-run Workflow panel: 2 selected, 1 runnable, 1 context, with one Image step and a one-credit estimate.](https://pub-60e30bed45514f03933d3900731bea31.r2.dev/public-app-sessions/v1/documentation/flow-selected-run-2242bd9885c20eb4.webp)

Two selected nodes, but one generation. The Text brief is context; only the Image step runs.

### Image + video

![Workflow panel with two selected runnable nodes, a 6-credit estimate, a Run button, and the previewed image-then-video execution order.](https://pub-60e30bed45514f03933d3900731bea31.r2.dev/public-app-sessions/v1/documentation/flow-run-selection-63270fdb42814cc9.webp)

Two selected generation steps: image first, then video. This setup estimates 6 credits with its current settings.

The order follows the connections, not where the cards sit on the canvas. A video that needs a generated first frame comes after its image step.

Choose **Run** when the selection and estimate are right. Unselected connected nodes do not automatically join this selection run. **Stop** stops the remaining queue; a generation already in progress may still finish.

### The result appeared, but the counter did not update

The completion count can stay at **0/1** even after a new image is ready. Inspect the actual output before running again—you may already have the result.

## Pick the smallest useful run

Select a node and open the arrow beside **Run** in its Prompt Bar. The menu shows the scope and estimate before you choose it. **Choosing a menu item starts that run.**

![Actual Flow Run menu on an Omni video node: Run from here, 10 credits and 2 nodes; Run till here, 6 credits and 2 nodes. The Run button and its dropdown arrow sit below the menu.](https://pub-60e30bed45514f03933d3900731bea31.r2.dev/public-app-sessions/v1/documentation/flow-run-scope-menu-88a11ed0e311d931.webp)

Same video, different scope: its downstream video edit estimates 10 credits with it; its upstream image estimates 6 credits with it. Both scopes contain two nodes.

| Control                       | What you are asking Flow to run                            |
| ----------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Run** beneath one node      | That step only, using its current inputs.                  |
| **Run** in the Workflow panel | The runnable nodes in your selection, in dependency order. |
| **Run from here**             | The current node and its downstream steps.                 |
| **Run till here**             | The current node and the connected steps leading into it.  |

If your image is already right and only the motion needs changing, run the **video step**. Running the image and video together asks for both to be generated again.

A displayed output is a previous result. Changing its prompt, moving its card, or grouping it does not regenerate that result. Review the run scope and credit estimate before starting another generation.

### A step says “No input provided” or “Blocked”

Check the first failed node's saved prompt and connected inputs. A node can display an earlier image while its editable prompt is empty. If you want a new image, fill in that node's prompt before running the chain. If you only want to animate the existing image, use the video's **Run** button instead.

**Blocked by an upstream node failure** means a needed earlier step failed; the dependent step was not run. Fix the earlier input before retrying.

## A rerun is another result

The same brief can produce a different composition. Here, running the selected Text + Image pair produced one new image without rerunning its downstream Set or edit.

### Earlier result

![Earlier Nano Banana 2 result with a blue cup on the right of a travertine windowsill overlooking the sea.](https://pub-60e30bed45514f03933d3900731bea31.r2.dev/public-app-sessions/v1/documentation/flow-brief-result-preview-a7631618d3be4b32.webp)

The first image from the connected coastal brief.

[Download the earlier original](https://pub-60e30bed45514f03933d3900731bea31.r2.dev/public-app-sessions/v1/documentation/flow-brief-result-original-40dd2f740b64df6c.png)

### New run

![New Nano Banana 2 result with the blue cup nearer the center, steam, a textured windowsill and the softly blurred coast.](https://pub-60e30bed45514f03933d3900731bea31.r2.dev/public-app-sessions/v1/documentation/flow-rerun-preview-80ef3267a6cc71bf.webp)

One new Nano Banana 2 result from the same prompt and settings.

[Download the new original](https://pub-60e30bed45514f03933d3900731bea31.r2.dev/public-app-sessions/v1/documentation/flow-rerun-original-40f456f53223cc02.png)

### Find an earlier result after reopening a flow

If earlier thumbnails disappear after reopening a flow, open **Assets** from Home in the same project. Search a phrase from the prompt; both versions above are still saved there.

![Actual project Assets search for campaign brief, showing the latest blue-cup image under Recent and the earlier version below it.](https://pub-60e30bed45514f03933d3900731bea31.r2.dev/public-app-sessions/v1/documentation/flow-results-library-093733111567ddd4.webp)

Search “campaign brief” to find both versions. Sidebar numbers are project totals.

[Find, inspect and reuse saved assets →](https://www.creativly.ai/docs/assets/overview)

[Nodes & connections](https://www.creativly.ai/docs/flow/nodes-and-connections)Choose inputs and pass them between steps.
[Image → product film](https://www.creativly.ai/docs/flow/image-to-video)Build the workflow grouped above.
[Find a starting template](https://www.creativly.ai/docs/flow/templates)Browse other useful workflow shapes.

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