Does Flow Designer Update Record Run Business Rules?

[cbarlock]

I have a business rule to update field X in a table when the state of the record changes.  In Flow Designer, I added an Update Record action to change the state of the record.  I noticed that field X was not updated.  Makes me believe that business rules don't run when Update Record is used to update a record.  Is this true?

[sachin_namjoshi]

While learning Flow Designer, make sure that you understand how existing Now Platform automation processes such as business rules and workflows change records to avoid creating conflicting logic. See the Architecture Overview to understand how Flow Designer works within the Now Platform. If you are replacing an existing automation process, you may need to deactivate it before replacing it with Flow Designer flows and actions.

Regards,

Sachin

[cbarlock]

This didn't really answer my question.  I see that Flow Designer flows are the last thing to run.  However, I expected the Update Record action to trigger a business rule, but that didn't seem to happen.  

[sachin_namjoshi]

Make sure that your business rule is AFTER.

Following is the example sequence of running flows, business rules

sss-->eeee: Trigger engine (for all Flow Designer flows)
eeee->>ssss: After Business Rules >=1000
ssss->>ssss: Async Business Rules

Regards,

Sachin

[cbarlock]

That's helpful, thanks.  But, I don't understand why this would matter since the business rule and flow are updating different fields in the table.