User Guide

Components & Links
Components
Components and links are the bricks and mortar of a FlowBotics Studio schematic. Understanding how to edit and manipulate these basic
elements is essential for working with the software as most of the interaction you’ll have with FlowBotics Studio will be through the
schematic.
We introduced the concept of components and links right at the start of this guide. We’ll go over this again now but in a little more detail this
time.
Components provide the functionality in a schematic. Each one performs some well defined task. They are represented by rectangular
blocks with circular adornments called Connectors which may appear on the left-hand or right-hand sides (or both).
The connectors on the left-hand side are called Input Connectors. These provide the component with information that it uses when
performing it’s defined task.
The connectors on the right-hand side are called Output Connectors. These provide information about the outcome of the of the task
performed by the component.
In the example above the String Replace component takes 3 inputs: the original text string, the position at which the replacement is to be
made and the text string to be inserted. The output is the modified string.
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