This section contains a library of articles related to the CloudFiles events feature provided by CloudFiles as part of its Salesforce integration. As part of its functionality, CloudFiles triggers a number of events (e.g. when a file is uploaded). These events can be intercepted using record triggered flows on custom objects or platform event triggered flows. These events also have additonal data associated (e.g. ID & name of the uploaded file) that can be used to perform business functions.

In order to use CloudFiles events, you only need to understand 2 things, how to intercept cloudfiles events, and what's the various event details available.

This can be done using a custom object record triggered flow or a platform event flow. We recommend the record-triggered flow approach since this is easier to debug.

Use the article on Intercepting CloudFiles Events for more information on this. Here's how the custom object record triggered flow looks like.

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There are many types of CloudFiles events and each comes with its own set of useful data. You can use the primer of All Event Types for reference to make your use-case possible.

Each of the articles mentioned here contains useful information on every CloudFiles platform event type, how to filter the above flow based on the event type, parameters returned by the Get Event Details action etc...