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Your Guide to Determining the Flow Running User and Its Execution Context

April 4, 2022 by Jennifer W. Lee Leave a Comment

When you build automation in Flow Builder, it’s important to understand how the running user affects your flow. The running user determines how your flow runs. Knowing who the running user is allows you to know who creates or modifies the records in the flow and helps you debug issues when they arise. It’s also important to know how the running user affects the context in which your flow runs, since permissions and record access can vary between users. I know this may sound confusing, but I’m here to help clarify it all for you. Let’s dig in!

Who’s running my flow?

The running user of a flow is the user who launched the flow, which can either be the current user or the Automated Process user. The running user determines what a flow that runs in user context can do with Salesforce data.

All flows, with the exception

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