Flow API endpoints

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  • Pablo Gonzalez
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    Hello,

    What are the parameters (both required and optional) for `/flows/<_id>/clone` and response?

    Thank you!

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  • Tyler Lamparter Principal Product Manager
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    Pablo Gonzalez here you go. We'll get docs updated as well.

    {
      "connectionMap": {
          "<current connection id>": "<new connection id>",
          "<current connection id>": "<new connection id>"
      },
      "sandbox": false,
      "name": "Name Flow Here",
      "_integrationId": "<integration id where the cloned flow should go>",
      "_flowGroupingId": "<flow group id where the cloned flow should go - optional>"
    }
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  • Pablo Gonzalez
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    Hi Tyler Lamparter,

    Awesome, thank you for the info. I saw the connectionMap and was wondering why it was being written twice and decided to try this another time. I looked at it again today and it makes sense! It's literally mapping the amount of connections from the source flow to the destination flow. I was able to successfully clone my flow via API, thank you again for your quick response! 

    - Pablo G.

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  • Emil Daniel Ordoñez Avila

    Hi Tyler Lamparter. Am I able to send non date parameters using the Flow Run Endpoint?

    Example: 

    {
       "export":{
          "sku":"XX-XXXX-SAMPLE-SKU",
          "startDate":"2023-01-05T00:00:00.000",
          "endDate":"2023-01-06T00:00:00.000"
        }
    }

    I Know the endDate and startDate are both mapping to currentExportDateTime and lastExportDateTime respectively, but I'm not able to use additional parameters as the sku on the example.

    This behavior would be helpful for APIs that are not based on Dates for filtering.

    Using the Run Export API, I'm able to send that SKU parameter, but not on the Flow API.
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  • Tyler Lamparter Principal Product Manager
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    Emil Daniel Ordoñez Avila unfortunately not at this time. It is currently slated as an enhancement for summer/fall of this year.

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  • Geoff Tipley
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    Tyler Lamparter being able to run another flow and pass in custom data for it to reference would be HUGE for me. Is there any way to work around this by having a flow change a value in Integration settings?

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  • Tyler Lamparter Principal Product Manager
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    Geoff Tipley yes you can update the integration settings prior to calling the flow to run. The only downside I see of doing this is that a flow can only have 1 job run at a time and I assume you need to run this for dozens, hundreds, or thousands of skus right? I'm curious what your workflow is here.

    Could another solution be to have a webhook on flow #2, have flow #1 post data to that webhook, then have a lookup step that runs the report for that sku? I'm not sure how many results are expected for that one lookup.

     

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  • Geoff Tipley
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    My project is syncing data between two Salesforce environments. If I'm syncing an Opportunity and it has an Account that hasn't been synced yet, I want to sync that Account and then continue with my Opportunity flow. My current fix should avoid the issue you named where only one instance of a flow can run at a time. I'm going to include the three components of my Account flow inside the Opportunity flow. Using the same components should allow it to be maintainable since I shouldn't have to make the same changes to two different flows when revising Account flow components.

    For a webhook approach, what would that take, incidentally? I imagine you create the Webhook listener in Celigo as a second source to the Account flow with Secret URL verification for instance, save that Public URL, and in the Account flow make an HTTP component to post data to that URL? I'm not sure it would help anything in this case because I believe the Account flow would run asynchronously and have no way of responding to the Opportunity flow with the IDs that were created.

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  • Tyler Lamparter Principal Product Manager
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    Geoff Tipley yeah it sounds like webhook process wouldn't work in your case. You're basically wanting your opportunity syncing flow (flow #1) to call another flow for account syncing, wait on that flow to complete, then move on to create the opportunity record in flow 1 so that you only have a single place to maintain account mappings and logic, right?

     

    Reusing the import/lookup steps like you are doing will work, but it would be nice to visually show that reuse differently (i.e. sub flow).

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  • Tyler Lamparter Principal Product Manager
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    Adding another flow run option here in case anyone needs it. Since IO now has the ability to run single exports on a flow, the /run object can include a payload of the exportIds that you want to run. Use the same /flows/<_id>/run as above, but use the below body. Use your own exportIds of course.

    {
       "_exportIds": [
           "655bd************1bf2",
           "655bdb1***********7bf94"
       ]
    }

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  • Tyler Lamparter Principal Product Manager
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    Another one we're working to add into the docs is replacing a connection at the flow level. To do so, use the following endpoint with the following payload.

    PUT /v1/flows/<_flowId>/replaceConnection

    {
      "_connectionId": "<_existingConnectionId>",
      "_newConnectionId": "<_newConnectionId>"
    }

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