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Workflows and System events

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  • August 23, 2023
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Pentium8542
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if I'm mistaken, please let me know!  😊


What I've noticed:

System/workflow based events, such as events from a previous workflow, don't trigger additional workflows. It needs to be requestor or agent driven. This has been annoying for some automations.

Idea: Id love for a way to call these system events in workflows.

Example. I have a workflow to request approvals depending on the Service Request Form being filled out. The requester or agent can then approve or deny.

If I now have a workflow looking for “Approval status is changed” event, it doesn't work (regardless of the status). The only way it works is if you manually create the approval from the ticket after its created, which is counterintuitive at that point.

My workaround is to look for when a service request is updated event.

 

example

 

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mskotko
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  • August 24, 2023

Have you tried having the original workflow update a field? Something as simple as “Approved” Yes/No. The secondary workflow could look at updates to that field to do whatever you want to happen next. Or maybe I’m not understanding what you’re trying to do.


Daniel Söderlund
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System based events are coming as far as I understand and you can call other workflows from within another workflow. Don’t know wow it’s going to work.