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The bit editor

The bit editor is where a bit's content is written: its text and media, its interactive elements and its connections to the next steps. This article explains how to open it, how it is laid out and how it saves your work. For what a bit can contain, see Creating and editing bits; for every element and its settings, see Interactive elements and their settings.

You need the Edit permission at the bit's level to use the editor. Without it, bits open read-only.

Opening the editor​

For a new bit:

  • Open New content in the navigation and choose Bit, or use New bit on the Bits tab of the Library.
  • Give the bit a title (required) and, if you like, a description, an abstract, a time target and categories, then choose Create Bit. Floxar may point out similar bits that already exist, so you can reuse one instead. The editor opens on the new bit.
  • When creating a flow, you can create its starting bit on the same page.
  • While editing a bit, you can create the next bit in the process directly from Connect; see Bit connections.

For an existing bit:

  • On the bit's page, choose Edit.
  • On a bit's card in search results or the Library, open its menu and choose Edit.
  • From a flow, open the bit you want and choose Edit there.

If the bit belongs to a different organization or group from the one you are working in, Floxar offers to switch to it first.

How the editor is laid out​

  • The header shows that you are editing, with Archive, Improve (asks the Flow Designer to propose a better version of the bit, available once the bit is part of a flow) and Close, which takes you back to where you came from.
  • The title is always the first line and cannot be removed.
  • The toolbar groups everything you can add: connections, references and credentials; text and headings; lists; form elements; media such as tables, images and video; and undo, redo and the properties panel. Labels shows or hides the text on the toolbar's buttons.
  • The content is where you write. Below it you can link references and open Bit metadata, which shows the bit's details and counts: words, reading time, media and interactive elements.

Adding content​

  • From the toolbar. Place the cursor and choose what to add.
  • With the slash menu. Type a slash at the start of an empty line, keep typing to filter, and press Enter to insert. It lists everything the toolbar offers except emoji and the undo and redo actions.
  • By pasting. Formatted text from other documents is cleaned and turned into the editor's own content; plain text becomes paragraphs.

Select an element to see its small toolbar, with options to select its content, open its properties or remove it. Alt+Up and Alt+Down move the current block up or down.

Properties​

The properties panel shows the settings of whatever is selected: an element's settings, or, with nothing selected, the bit's own settings:

  • Description and Abstract (a short summary, generated by AI and editable).
  • Categories, for organizing and finding bits.
  • SLA target, the time the step should take, from 0 to 60 minutes; 5 minutes by default.
  • Complexity (Low, Medium or High), how much reasoning effort AI agents should put into this step; Medium by default.

Open and close the panel with Ctrl+F2 (Cmd+F2 on a Mac), jump to the bit's own settings with Ctrl+Shift+F2, and close it with Esc.

Saving​

There is no save button. The editor saves automatically a few seconds after you stop typing. If you try to leave with changes not yet saved, Floxar asks you to confirm.

  • If the title is empty, saving pauses until you add one.
  • If someone else saved the same bit after you opened it, your save is refused and the bit is refreshed to its latest version; check it and make your change again.
  • Floxar keeps a backup copy of a bit's content when you open it in the editor.

Things to know​

  • A bit is the same in every flow. A bit can be part of several flows, and an edit appears in all of them at once. The bit's page lists the flows it is part of, so you can check before changing it.
  • Media limits. Images can be JPG, PNG or GIF up to 10 MB, and are reduced to at most 1920 by 1080 pixels. Videos can be MP4, MOV, WMV or WebM up to 1 GB. A bit can hold up to 25 images and videos.
  • Archiving, not deleting. Archive hides a bit from flows and removes its connections, but keeps its content; an archived bit can be restored from its page. Bits cannot be deleted. A bit that is the starting bit of an active flow cannot be archived.
  • Wipe Document clears all of a bit's content after a confirmation. It cannot be undone.

Keyboard shortcuts​

ActionKeys
Bold, italic, underlineCtrl+B, Ctrl+I, Ctrl+U
Inline codeCtrl+`
Undo, redoCtrl+Z, Ctrl+Y
Move the current block up or downAlt+Up, Alt+Down
Move to the formatting toolbar of selected textAlt+F10
Open or close the properties panelCtrl+F2
Open the bit's own settingsCtrl+Shift+F2
Next or previous table cell (Tab in the last cell adds a row)Tab, Shift+Tab
New line inside a table cellCtrl+Enter
Indent or outdent a list itemTab, Shift+Tab

On a Mac, use Cmd in place of Ctrl.

Last reviewed: 2026-10-06