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title: "Optimizing Scenario Flow with Step Groups | Autify Guide"
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# Step Group for the middle/end of a Scenario

## When to use

This kind of Step Group can be used for any series of steps you wish to use in the middle or at the end of a scenario. For example, this could be a series of input steps that you want to repeat in the middle of a scenario, or a common cleanup process that can be used at the end of multiple scenarios!

## Creating a Step Group for the middle/end of a Scenario

Step Group for the middle/end of a Scenario cannot be created from scratch, but it can be created from a part of a scenario. Let's do it by following these steps:

1. Record a Scenario containing a series of steps that you want to convert into a Step Group
2. Select the series of steps you want to convert by clicking the checkbox at the top left of each step, and click [Create step group]

![Screen Shot 2022-04-05 at 16.44.13.png](https://cdn.document360.io/a099d8a2-cfd2-42ca-9906-68b4a337f4a5/Images/Documentation/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-05%20at%2016.44.13.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-08T18%3A32%3A04Z&se=2026-11-08T19%3A32%3A04Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=AlQsE5KXN5bXWs0Z%2FzFpNkRhACnvf5moT5NKKsmWxU8%3D)

1. Name your Step Group and click [Done]

![Screen Shot 2022-04-05 at 16.47.28.png](https://cdn.document360.io/a099d8a2-cfd2-42ca-9906-68b4a337f4a5/Images/Documentation/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-05%20at%2016.47.28.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-08T18%3A32%3A04Z&se=2026-11-08T19%3A32%3A04Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=AlQsE5KXN5bXWs0Z%2FzFpNkRhACnvf5moT5NKKsmWxU8%3D)

1. Your selected steps have just turned into a Step Group!  This new Step Group can be used in the middle or at the end of any of your scenarios.

![Screen Shot 2022-04-05 at 16.47.48.png](https://cdn.document360.io/a099d8a2-cfd2-42ca-9906-68b4a337f4a5/Images/Documentation/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-05%20at%2016.47.48.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-08T18%3A32%3A04Z&se=2026-11-08T19%3A32%3A04Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=AlQsE5KXN5bXWs0Z%2FzFpNkRhACnvf5moT5NKKsmWxU8%3D)

You can view what’s inside the Step Group by clicking it:

![Screen Shot 2022-04-05 at 16.48.14.png](https://cdn.document360.io/a099d8a2-cfd2-42ca-9906-68b4a337f4a5/Images/Documentation/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-05%20at%2016.48.14.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-08T18%3A32%3A04Z&se=2026-11-08T19%3A32%3A04Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=AlQsE5KXN5bXWs0Z%2FzFpNkRhACnvf5moT5NKKsmWxU8%3D)

## Note

Selected steps cannot be turned into a Step Group if -

- They contain Step Groups
- The steps are dependent on other steps in the Scenario - Specifically, when they include the following kinds of steps:
  - Steps using a return value of other JS steps
  - JS steps returning a value that is referred to by other steps
  - Steps using random email addresses
  - Steps using a value in the Data table
  - Switch Window steps referring to the windows created in other steps
  - A step that exists within a cleanup step

## Using a Step Group in the middle/end of a Scenario

Now, let’s put the Step Group you created into a Scenario. Open a scenario to which you want to add the Step Group. When you click the [+] button between two steps, you will see `Insert Step Group` in the menu. Click the link.

![Screen Shot 2022-04-05 at 20.53.27.png](https://cdn.document360.io/a099d8a2-cfd2-42ca-9906-68b4a337f4a5/Images/Documentation/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-05%20at%2020.53.27.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-08T18%3A32%3A04Z&se=2026-11-08T19%3A32%3A04Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=AlQsE5KXN5bXWs0Z%2FzFpNkRhACnvf5moT5NKKsmWxU8%3D)

You can see that a Step Group is successfully added to the Scenario. Select the Step Group you would like to add to this Scenario.

*Note that only **Step Groups that don’t have visit steps** are displayed in the list.

![Screen Shot 2022-04-05 at 20.57.47.png](https://cdn.document360.io/a099d8a2-cfd2-42ca-9906-68b4a337f4a5/Images/Documentation/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-05%20at%2020.57.47.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-08T18%3A32%3A04Z&se=2026-11-08T19%3A32%3A04Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=AlQsE5KXN5bXWs0Z%2FzFpNkRhACnvf5moT5NKKsmWxU8%3D)