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description: In this Flow example, design and test the automation that sends a user’s information from Salesforce to the external employee banking system. Create the variables for user phone numbers, and combine different phone numbers into one piece of data. Then use the external service action to create the user.
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# Use Flow to Invoke External Service Actions

In this Flow example, design and test the automation that sends a user’s information from Salesforce to the external employee banking system. Create the variables for user phone numbers, and combine different phone numbers into one piece of data. Then use the external service action to create the user.

- **[End-to-end Example with Flow](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.enhanced_external_services_example_create_flow_end_to_end.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    In this Flow example, design and test the automation that sends a user’s information from Salesforce to the external employee banking system. Create the variables for user phone numbers, and combine different phone numbers into one piece of data. Then use the external service action to create the user.
- **[View an Action’s Unique Apex Name in Flow](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.enhanced_external_services_example_create_flow_view.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Map an action in Flow to an action in your external service. When searching for an External Service action in Flow Builder, you see the unique Apex name in the list of actions.

#### See Also

- [External Services](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.external_services.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Connect your Salesforce org to an external API by using zero lines of code. Use declarative tools and OpenAPI specifications to describe the external API functionality, and External Services automatically creates invocable actions within Salesforce. Use External Services for outbound integrations from Salesforce by using low-code, process-based integrations or to turbocharge your Apex integrations. Call the invocable actions natively from Apex, or create a custom agent action, flow, or Einstein bot that interacts with the external API source.")
- [Build a Flow](https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=flow_build.htm&language=en_US)