Platform Events

The section contains a library of articles related to the CloudFiles platform events feature provided by CloudFiles as part of its Salesforce integration. Platform events are a Salesforce out-of-the-box feature. It allows to trigger Salesforce flows from external applications, especially marketplace apps. Simple record triggered flows or auto-launched cannot do that.

In order to use this feature, it is important to set this up correctly. Refer to the article on CloudFiles Event Handler Flow Template to learn how to set up the flow. Here is the platform event triggered flow that this article will help you set up.

Once you have successfully setup the above flow, you can refer to the list articles indexed in our All Event Types article. 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...