# Flow in Studio Desktop

> Build, test, and deploy Flow processes in Studio Desktop, the UiPath builder installed on a computer, next to your RPA projects.

Studio Desktop is the UiPath builder that you install on a computer. It also holds RPA (robotic process automation) projects, so Flow processes and RPA projects can be built in the same application. The Flow canvas, nodes, variables, and debugging are the same in Studio Web, VS Code, and Studio Desktop.

## How Studio Desktop works with the Flow canvas

Studio Desktop opens Flow processes in the same visual editor that VS Code uses, which is delivered as an extension. Studio Desktop provides its own explorer, so the extension adds the canvas without its own sidebar views. Sign-in is part of Studio Desktop, so a process uses the signed-in Studio Desktop session and has no separate sign-in panel.

Flow processes can call RPA projects that are cross-platform, which means projects that are not tied to Windows.

The **Data** category of the **Add node** panel doesn't include the Data Fabric nodes in Studio Desktop. To read or write Data Fabric records, build the process in Studio Web or VS Code.

## Create a Flow project

1. Open a solution in Studio Desktop.
2. In the **Explorer**, select **Add a project**.
3. Under **Add to Solution**, select **Maestro Flow**.

![The Studio Desktop Explorer for a solution with no projects yet, with the Add a project menu open. Under Add to Solution, the menu lists Automation, Maestro Flow, Maestro Automate, Automation from Template, and Import Existing Project.](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/maestro-automate/studio-desktop-add-project-automate-d0c78134.webp)

The new project opens on the Flow canvas with a **Manual trigger** already on it. A project that was created in Studio Web can be synced to Studio Desktop and opened on the canvas.

## Build with Autopilot

Studio Desktop has Autopilot (Preview), in the **Autopilot** panel on the right. Describe the process, and Autopilot builds it on the canvas.

## Test and deploy

The top of the Studio Desktop window has **Design** and **Debug** tabs.

To deploy, select **Publish > Publish Solution**, then choose a feed in **Publish to**:

- **Orchestrator Personal Workspace Feed** deploys the solution to **My Workspace**, for your own use.
- **Orchestrator Tenant Feed** only uploads the package. To deploy it, in Orchestrator, select **Tenant**, then **Solutions > Packages**, select the solution, and select **Deploy**.

## Related pages

- [Your first Flow](quickstart.md): build a working process on the Flow canvas.
- [Flow in VS Code](vs-code.md): the VS Code environment.
- [Ways to build](ways-to-build-with-maestro.md): every way to build on the Case, Flow, and BPMN canvases.