Admins, have you ever needed to have actions taken in Salesforce if something happens in an external system? Have you ever needed to log an error or notify people if an error occurs? If yes, then a platform event-triggered flow might be what you need.
In this post, we’ll provide a high-level overview of a platform event-triggered flow, share use cases solved with a platform event-triggered flow, and give you an example platform event-triggered flow to inspire you to build your first one.
Publishers send the event messages to the event bus. There are subscribers, who are listening for the event messages and, once received, will in turn do something. Flows can be subscribed to platform event messages. When platform event messages published through Apex, APIs, flows, and other processes are received, this will launch the platform event-triggered flow.
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