File Replaced
This event is published when an External Storage File is replaced using CloudFiles LWC from within Salesforce.
For example, replacing a SharePoint's file with another file uploaded from local PC.
To use CloudFiles Events, you must first setup your flow as shown in the Intercepting CloudFiles Events article. This article will introduce you to the concepts of the event type as well as event details that are returned by the Get Event Details flow action.
Once you are familiar with these, you will understand how to interpret & use these as illustrated in the sections below.
Please use file-replaced as the type filter when selecting this event in the decision element in flow builder.
The corresponding Get Event Details flow action returns the Replaced File Details sub-type with useful information including replaced file details, Record Id and User Id for further use.
Refer to the image below for a list of outputs and descriptions of the parameters returned in this sub-type.
- DriveId - The Drive Id of the replaced File
- Id- The Resource Id of the replaced File. (When a file is replaced, the Resource Id doesn't change)
- Library- The External Storage Library (Ex sharepoint)
- Name- The Name of the replaced File (Old File's Name)
- ParentFolderId - The Resource Id of the replaced File's ParentFolder
- RecordId - The Salesforce Record Id associated with the LWC that initiated the the update.
- UserId - The Salesforce User Id of the user who performed the update.