Run as a specific user for a 'Daily' triggered flow in flow designer

[Minso2]

We are having a flow in Flow Designer which needs to be run 'Daily'. We gave the trigger condition as 'Daily'.

This flow is used to fetch data from a third party tool.

And we would want this to be 'Run As' a specific user which we have created in the user table.

But the only option I am finding is 'Run As' - User who initiates the session.

Like how we have an option in 'Scheduled Data Import' to select the specific user.

Is the same possible in Flow Designer ?

[Hitoshi Ozawa]

Just for information, in the Paris release, it is now possible to specify roles to run the flow.

Create a flow with rolesCreate flows and subflows that run with specific roles. Assigning roles enables you to create user-initiated flows that run with their own roles rather than the user's roles.

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/paris-servicenow-platform/page/administer/flow-designer/task/crea...

[venkatachinthag · Accepted solution]

Hi,

In Flow designer if you choose the Trigger as Daily, Weekly, Monthly and activated,there will be a scheduled job created automatically in the back end with name starting 'Trigger:<sys_id of flow>'.

So you can simply create the flow from Flow designer as you want.

And then go to Scheduled jobs and update 'Run As' field.

Thank you

Venkat

[Minso2]

Thank you for this information Venkat! 

[Ronald Martin1]

I just tried to create a scheduled flow and it does indeed appear in the list of scheduled jobs.  And as mentionned with the name: Trigger:ed0fa8620752201056c7fa7f7c1ed0b1

However, this is quite a meaningless name when I am monitoring the upcoming scheduled jobs.  Is there a way around this to show the flow name instead?

[Joey Alain1]

Old thread, but just adding here in case others read.

An updated answer here until we have a way to specify the user we want the flow to run as is to impersonate the desired user, from within your flow. If you don't have a built in action from a spoke to do that then you can build one yourself and reuse that. Once impersonated, every triggered sub-flow, action, or just flow step from that point forward will be under the impersonation of that user.