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Triggers

A trigger is an external event that initiates a task, or sequence of tasks, in an integration. You can think of a trigger as an entry point to your integration—the event tied to the trigger causes the tasks associated with the trigger to run.

You can add multiple triggers to your integration. However, when an event occurs, only the trigger associated with the event begins executing its tasks. For more information, see Adding multiple triggers in an integration.

For the list of all the available out-of-the-box triggers, see All triggers and tasks.

Adding multiple triggers in an integration

You can add one or more triggers in an integration where each trigger is associated with a different task. The integration starts from the trigger for which the event occurs. For example, consider your integration has two triggers where Trigger-1 is associated with Task-1, and Trigger-2 is associated with a downstream task Task-5. Now suppose an event triggers Trigger-2, the integration runs from Task-5 onwards.

If multiple triggers run at the same time, each trigger runs its copy of the integration. In the preceding example, if both Trigger-1 and Trigger-2 run simultaneously, Trigger-1 runs the integration from Task-1 onwards, and Trigger-2 runs a separate copy of the integration from Task-5 onwards. There is no overlap between the execution flows of the two integrations.