Publish a process

While a process is a draft, it is built from a sample of your conversations and is only visible to you as a work in progress. Publishing turns that draft into a live process: Tekst re-analyzes across all of your conversations using the activities you curated, and the process becomes something you can share with your team and return to over time. This article explains how to publish and what to expect.

Before publishing, make sure you have reviewed the draft - see the "Review and clean up a discovered process" article.

What publishing does

When you publish, Tekst:

• Locks in the activities you kept, renamed, merged, added, and described.
• Re-analyzes your conversations across the full data set (not just the initial sample), so the live map and its metrics are based on everything in scope.
• Marks the process as active so it appears in your Processes list with its throughput and frequency figures.

Before you publish: what cannot change later

A few choices are fixed once the process is live. Double-check these in the draft, because they cannot be edited after publishing:

• The inboxes the process draws from.
• The topics used to scope it.
• The tracking method (Conversation or Entity).

If any of these are wrong, fix them before publishing. The activities themselves can still be refined later.

Publishing

1. In the draft, select Publish process.
2. Review the summary of activities and their frequencies.
3. Leave Start backfilling automatically selected so Tekst begins the full analysis right away.
4. Confirm.

The process moves out of the draft state and Tekst runs the full analysis. You may see an indicator while this completes, and a banner letting you refresh once new data is ready.

After publishing

Your process is now live. From here you explore it: read the map, work through the variants, and track throughput against a target. See:

• The "Read the process map" article.
• The "Explore process variants" article.
• The "Throughput time and setting a target" article.

As new conversations arrive, Tekst keeps the process up to date so the map continues to reflect reality.