Flow Engine for Building Automated Flows Within a Cloud Based Developmental Platform

A method comprising:

• obtaining a run-time flow plan that comprises a trigger, a first operation, and a second operation, wherein the first operation precedes the second operation within the run-time flow plan and one or more input values of the second operation are linked to the first operation;
• determining whether one or more conditions of the trigger are met;
• executing the first operation based at least on the determination that the one or more conditions of the trigger are met;
• monitoring whether the second operation is ready for execution based at least on a determination that the one or more input values of a second action operation are ready, wherein the one or more input values are ready after the completing the execution of the first operation;
• and
• executing the second action operation when the second action operation has been identified as ready for execution.

A system comprising:

• at least one user interface;
• a non-transitory memory;
• and
• one or more hardware processors configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• creating a trigger for an action flow plan that activates when one or more computing conditions are met;
• defining a plurality of actions for the action flow plan that would execute after the trigger activates, wherein each of the plurality of actions comprises a respective sequence of action steps associated with respective inputs and outputs;
• receiving from the at least one user interface an instruction to publish the action flow plan, and
• calling a flow plan builder to convert the action flow plan into a run-time flow plan for execution.