Flow Designer is Not Triggering with state change with custom button

[Community Alums]

I have a flow designer which is not triggering

It triggers when I manually change the state in the Table List, it will trigger. 

However I have also created a button which basically changes the state to "pending approval"

Which only changes the state but does not trigger the flow. 

This is the code, which changes the state, but not triggering the flow. 

function onClick(g_form) {
    // Validate required fields
    if (!g_form.getValue('target_date')) {
        g_form.addErrorMessage('Target date is required');
        return false;
    }
    
    if (!g_form.getValue('reason_and_areas_of_focus')) {
        g_form.addErrorMessage('Reason is required');
        return false;
    }
	// Set assignment group BEFORE state change
    g_form.setValue('assignment_group', '43a3940a4715b250e12bcea5936d437c');
    
    // Set state FIRST
    g_form.setValue('state', 'pending_approval');
    
    // Force save - use save() instead of submit()
    g_form.save();
    
    // Show message after save starts
    g_form.addInfoMessage('Request submitted for approval!');
}

Kindly assist

Thank you

[M Iftikhar]

Hi @Community Alums,

Please test this UI Action on a new record. You've set the Flow trigger to "Run: Once"—have you previously executed this flow for this record?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Community Alums 

make sure you run Flow as System User

are you sure the record is getting saved using workspace client script and state is getting updated in database?

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[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@Community Alums 

Thank you for marking my response as helpful.

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[Community Alums]

The issue was the trigger, I had to put updated or created then it worked