A Flow can be invoked from multiple places. You can invoke it from a button, embed it on your pages, invoke it when DML operations are performed, schedule to run it or even invoke it through REST API call.
In this step-by-step guide, you will learn how to call a Flow from an API, how to pass parameters to the Flow and how Flow will return the values back to the API
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References & Useful URLs:
- Help Article – Launch a Flow from the REST API
Hello Ashish, thank you for this guide.
I’m able to test a custom, auto launched flow from Workbench like on this guide.
However, trying to call the endpoint from a Python script gets me a JSON object describing the Flow: “{“allowsTransactionControl”:false,”category”:null,”configurationEditor”:null,”description”….}
Have you encountered a similar issue, or are Flow APIs only callable from inside Workbench?
Hi Sergio,
The Flow APIs can be called from anywhere. It is not restricted to Workbench. I am not familiar with Python, but can you try if you are able to make other API calls to the same Salesforce org with the same user credentials and and getting a proper response. If you can run it from Workbench, it should work fine from other places also.
Regards,
Ashish