Publishing a workflow imports it directly into the running Workbench session. Once all cells have green check marks, select Workflow Actions > Publish Workflow. In the Publishing Settings dialog box that opens, enter a workflow name and click Publish.

During the publishing process, the ACT Workflow Designer collects all workflow data, creates the scripted ACT extension, and then loads this extension in Workbench. The extension is created here: C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Roaming\Ansys\vXXX\ACT\extensions, where vXXX is the active Ansys version.

The ACT Workflow Designer produces the following extension members by default:

After successfully publishing the workflow, the ACT Workflow Designer closes, returning you to the Workbench Project Schematic. Under the Workbench Toolbox category that you specified, an entry now exists for the new, fully operational workflow. When the category is ACT (default), the new workflow entry is added below the entry for creating a workflow.

To begin simulation activity, you drag the workflow entry from the Workbench Toolbox and drop it on the Project Schematic. You can also double-click this Workbench Toolbox entry to add it to the Project Schematic.

While the update icon displays on task cells, attempting to update a cell starts the external application, which generally fails because input and output properties for this external application are not yet defined.

You can share the scripted extension that publishing the workflow has created or use the Binary Extension Builder to produce a binary version (WBEX file) to deploy on the Ansys Store.

If before publishing a workflow, you select Workflow Actions > Rest Workflow, the ACT Workflow Designer clears the Workflow Preview workspace, removing the added task group and tasks.