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Build a flow using the Utility Actions spoke actions

Create a flow in Workflow Studio using the Utility Actions spoke actions to create two files; one for incident records and other for user records, and zip these two files.

Before you begin

Role required: admin.

About this task

This sample flow demonstrates using the Utility Actions spoke actions to create files. You can configure the flow as per your requirement.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > Flow Designer > Designer.

  2. Create a flow.

    For more information, see Building flows.

  3. In the flow, add these spoke actions or flow logics:

    1. Look Up Incident Records action to retrieve the incident records.

    2. Begin File action to create a file that will contain the incident records.

    3. For Each flow logic to apply the Append to Delimited File action to the list of incident records.

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Append to Delimited File spoke action
4.  Build File action to add rows.

    Each incident record is added as a row in the file.
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Build File spoke action
5.  Perform similar steps to retrieve records from the User \[sys\_user\] table.
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Retrieve user records
6.  Begin Zip action to build the ZIP file for the incident and user records.

7.  Add File To Zip action to add a file containing the incident records to the ZIP file.
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Add File To Zip action
8.  Add File To Zip action to add file containing the user records to the ZIP file.
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Add File To Zip action
9.  Build a Zip action to create the ZIP file containing the incident and user records.
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Build File action
  1. Save, test, and publish the flow to use it.
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Sample flow using the Utility Actions spoke actions