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What Is a Schedule-Triggered Flow?

November 20, 2023 by jennifer.w.lee@salesforce.com Leave a Comment

As an admin, you may be given business requirements to perform some type of automation, like maintain your org’s data or complete routine tasks (for example, send an email reminder) on a scheduled time and frequency, such as daily or weekly. Or, you might just need to run automation once on a batch of records. To solve for that without writing code, you can create a schedule-triggered flow.

In this post, we’ll provide a high-level overview of schedule-triggered flows, give you use cases solved with a schedule-triggered flow, and show you an example schedule-triggered flow to inspire you to build your first one. Let’s get started!

What’s a schedule-triggered flow?

A schedule-triggered flow runs in the background at a specified time and at a repeated frequency (daily, weekly, or once) to perform actions on a batch of records. Schedule-triggered flows can save time and minimize manual data update risk by

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