05 · Scheduled paths and platform events

The async toolbox: run minutes later, run nightly, or hand off to another system entirely — without a line of Apex.

Scheduled paths are the gentle async

'Ten minutes after the record meets conditions' covers a surprising share of async needs — reminders, escalations, SLA checks — with none of the ceremony.

Platform events cross the boundary

Publish an event and anything can subscribe: another flow, Apex, or an external system on CometD. It is the loose coupling your integrations wanted all along.

Practice in your org

• Open your Developer Edition org and follow along step by step
• Change one thing at a time and note what happens
• When something breaks, read the error before searching for it