It is perfectly possible to activate a program and launch an email without activating the flows. There are a lot of steps and clicks required before sending an email and if you don't pay attention you can send an email despite flows being inactive. Every program consists in several flow steps, to update the status of the program members (bounced, opened, clicked, unsubscribed, etc). Each status change is handled by a flow and these flows need to be activated one by one before approving a program for launch. If we forget to do this, we will not know whether an email was opened or clicked and these statuses are used by scoring programs (if email is clicked, then a score will be assigned to the person). So the idea is to have a warning on the program Control Panel to inform the user that a flow is inactive and must be activated.
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