External data flows are deprecated and no longer officially supported. By default, the user interface elements associated with these rules are hidden. Visibility can be toggled on and off with a dynamic system setting. As a best practice, discontinue the use of this feature in your application.

External data flows can be run, monitored, and managed through a rule-based API. Data-Decision-EDF-RunOptions and Pega-DM-EDF-Work are the container classes for the API rules, and provide the properties required to programmatically configure external data flow runs.