Preflight builds are created on the Administration tab by selecting the Create Preflight Workflow icon of the appropriate originating workflow. Once created, the preflight-build workflow is displayed on the Administration page in blue and identified with the (preflight) suffix. Both the preflight workflow and job may be edited after creation; however, making changes to either the preflight workflow or job may result in a failed preflight-build.

While the preflight workflow and job are virtually identical to the originals, the preflight job includes an additional step (Preflight Build - File Retrieval) which is inserted after the first populate workspace step encountered in the original job. When the job is run, the original populate workspace steps are disabled (but not removed), and the Preflight Build -File Retrieval job step instructs AnthillPro to retrieve source files for a developer machine, instead of using the SCM configured for the originating workflow. Any additional populate workspace step can be enabled for the preflight build, if needed; however it should not interfere with the one actually replaced. Any assign stamp, label, change log and integration step is disabled permanently for preflight jobs.

Complete documentation is available from the AnthillPro UI at Tools > Anthill Preflight Client.