Spigots is a Salesforce AppExchange app that is a scheduling engine, allowing functionality that goes above and beyond what you can to out of the box with Flows and Salesforce Scheduler. Some use cases include:
- Round Robin Lead Distribution
- Running scheduled jobs up to once a minute
- Taking action upon changes that would not run a Record Triggered Flow or Trigger such as time based criteria or related object changes
- Automatically retry until criteria is satisfied
- Path holes in other automation
- Receive email alerts within a minute of criteria being met
- Updating a large set of records more gradually than Dataloader allows
Spigots is an ‘Active’ form of automation; it is frequently checking if there are new records returned by a specific SOQL query, and acting upon those records. Typically one of the actions is updating the input record such that it no longer qualifies for this Spigot, so each record passes through the Spigot only one time
I designed Spigots after running into the need for such a tool time and time again.
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