Replays

Replays transform your pipeline development history into interactive tutorials. By breaking down the build process into step-by-step walkthroughs, replays help viewers understand not just what your pipeline does, but how and why you built it.

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Prophecy onboarding

Prophecy’s onboarding experience uses replays to introduce new users to the platform. To view these replays after your initial setup, click Onboarding from the homepage. Reviewing the onboarding replays can help you become familiar with the tool before using it yourself.

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Build a new replay

To create a replay from your pipeline’s commit history:

1. Click the version control menu and select Share Project & Replays.
2. Navigate to the Replays tab.
3. Click Build Replay to open the Replay Builder.
4. Click Get Started.

Prophecy automatically generates replay steps based on your pipeline’s saved commits. Each step appears in the bottom panel with a default title and description.

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Customize your replay

To refine the replay experience:

1. Click the gear icon in the bottom panel to edit:
   • Step order (drag to reorder)
   • Step titles and descriptions
   • Which commits to include (unselect to skip)
2. Mark steps as Challenge Mode to create interactive learning steps.

Note that while you can reorganize steps and disable commits, you cannot change the order of commits.

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Challenge mode

Challenge mode transforms passive viewing into active learning. When you mark a step as a challenge:

• Viewers must recreate the pipeline transformations themselves.
• The replay validates their work against the original implementation.
• Viewers can switch to Watch mode if they need help completing the challenge.

This makes replays powerful training tools for teaching data transformation techniques in Prophecy.

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Share a replay

Each project can contain one or more replays. To share a replay:

1. Open a project in the project editor.
2. Open the version control menu in the top right corner.
3. Select Share Project & Replays. This opens the sharing dialog.
4. Click on the Replays tab.
5. Copy the link and send it to your audience.

Anyone with the link will be able to view the replay, no login required.

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Viewer experience

Users who open your replay link can:

• Progress through each commit step-by-step.
• See data samples automatically as the replay advances.
• Pause the replay to explore the pipeline.
• Attempt challenge mode steps to test their skills.
• Validate their work against your original pipeline logic.

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Resuming and exiting

If viewers leave a replay before finishing, they can resume from where they left off from the homepage. When viewers click Exit on a replay, they enter View mode, which is the same read-only interface used for public sharing. In View mode, they can explore the completed pipeline but cannot make changes.