Overview

App Events are custom events that are sent from your application via the Cobalt SDK or API to trigger Workflows.

In general, App Events are useful for triggering workflows that map data from your application to your users’ apps. For example, you might send a Contact Created App Event from your application to trigger a Workflow that creates a matching contact in your users’ Salesforce CRM.

Learn more about Events in our guide here.

Default App triggers can be used to run workflows based on events in your users’ apps. For example, you might want to trigger a workflow whenever new contacts are created in your users’ Salesforce account, to sync contacts to your application in real-time.

The Scheduler trigger is used for workflows that should run automatically at a scheduled time or interval.

• Minutes (e.g. every 30 minutes)
• Hourly (e.g. every hour at 15 minutes past the hour)
• Daily (e.g. every 2 days at 9:00 am)

Once deployed, the workflow will run automatically at the designated time for all users who have activated the workflow.

The Workflow API in Cobalt allows users to execute workflows programmatically instead of relying on event-based triggers. This API-based execution provides flexibility in triggering workflows directly through an API call.

These actions do not make any API calls themselves but help as utility tools for making workflows.

There are various utility nodes currently provided by Cobalt. You can learn more about any of the node by clicking on its card below.

You can create API Proxies of your organization to use, in the Developer settings.

Cobalt supports 100+ third party applications on its platform. Users can connect to these applications through Cobalt to make use of their APIs.

When you select an application from the Apps list to create a workflow, you can find it’s Native node in the right panel along with the other actions. Drag and drop it on the workflow canvas to make use of the the application’s APIs supported by Cobalt.

HTTP Request

Users can also make any custom API call to the selected application that is not available with Cobalt as an action using the HTTP request. Simply setup the API in the node with all the required params like Method, URL, Request Body etc. and you are good to go.