Trigger a flow from carousel

(Louis Delav) #1

Hello !
I would like to trigger a flow from a carousel.
To activate the trigger I have to go through a question with a filter type y / n
But how to avoid the question and send the trigger from the shortcut of the carousel?
If you know how to do it I’m a taker!
Thank you :smiley:

(Daniel Beckett) #2

Card Sets can include shortcuts which could be used with the ‘New Message’ trigger to start a flow on a matching shortcut keyword or phrase.

(Louis Delav) #3

The interest for me to use “Trigger a Flow action” is to be able to send metadata from one flow to another, which is not possible with the New Message trigger to start a flow.

(Daniel Beckett) #4

You could possibly use attributes instead of passing metadata between flows.

Other than that all I could think of as a solution would be to have a question after your card set that says something like “Please select from the above options” that will capture the selected shortcut as an answer. You can then have filters setup on trigger a flow actions to send the user to the right flow based on their selection.

(Louis Delav) #5

It’s already the solution I use, but for optimization I will switch this step.

I explain in detail, names are generated by a call to an API so they are random depending on the users, I can’t predict in advance the names generate and embedded in a listening “New message”.

Would an internal shortcut at FlowXO that drive to the trigger be feasible?

Either it would pass on another flow, or lead to a later action in the original flow?

I hope to be clear enough, thanks for your answer