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Using location to trigger a flow

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Using location to trigger a flow

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- [Instructor] Geofencing has been in preview for a while, but it just went live in general availability, not in preview, this past month. What geofencing allows us to do is to create a trigger range, also called a location range, and to use that range to trigger an automated flow when a mobile device, and presumably the user who has it in their pocket or purse, enters or leaves that location range. Use case scenarios for this, there are so many. One is a simple time clock. Somebody walks onto the property, they punch in, they leave, they punch out. Or a check in and check out of a particular area, whatever that area is. The ability to notify your team or supervisor when you enter or exit the building or a particular location. Or, thinking of it another way, the ability to know that a service associate has arrived at a customer site, use the location to figure out who that customer is, and then to send that…

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